Fuorisalone Award returns in its third edition

With the Milan Design Week 2024, the Fuorisalone Award also returns, an award that honours the most memorable contents and installations of the year.

After the 2023 edition won by SolidNature with Beyond the Surface in Spazio Cernaia, Fuorisalone.it is preparing for the third edition of the Fuorisalone Award. An authorial project curated by Studiolabo, which rewards the creativity and ideas of Italian and international companies and designers.


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As always, the award aims to promote both the most distinctive installations on show in Milan and content, projects, activities of interest to the international project community (Special Mentions).

The projects that will compete for the public's votes will be 16 and visible on the dedicated section, which can be explored through a system of event pages with content and photos of the installations. Voting will open from Wednesday 17 April and close by Saturday 20 April at 12 noon. Users will be able to vote after registering on the platform.




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The Special Mentions (last year won by Les Eaux Primordiales for the Mention Interaction; RE;CODE for the Mention Sustainability; KIA for the Mention Technology and NEMO Lighting + Ron Gilad for the Mention Communication), which will promote the most relevant projects and events of the Fuorisalone that meet specific criteria and design features, will instead be awarded by a technical committee that this year is composed of: Andrea Davide Cuman, Professor and Historian of the Fuorisalone; Andrea Staid, Anthropologist and Writer; Angela Rui, Design Curator; Caroline Corbetta, Contemporary Art Curator and Founding Director @ilcrepaccio; Federica Sala, Curator and EIC The Food Life Italia; Francesco Zurlo, Dean of the School of Design at Politecnico di Milano; Giada Daniele, Architect and Content Creator; Nicola Ricciardi, Artistic Director of Miart; Paolo Ferrarini, Curator, Lecturer and Journalist; Valentina Ventrelli, Advisor in Contemporary Aesthetics. 




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The selected projects, through a joint effort between the Fuorisalone.it editorial staff and the Technical Committee itself, will compete for the 4 Special Mentions in the categories of Interaction, Sustainability, Technology and Communication.

This year sees the launch of a sixth award: the Special Media Partner Mention, which is intended to give value and authority to Fuorisalone.it's media collaborations. The platform's Media Partners will be called upon to express their judgement from the shortlist of the 16 most memorable projects. A "critics'" prize that will stand alongside the one chosen by the public. 


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Once again this year, the Fuorisalone Awards will be made - in collaboration with Pollodesign Factory and Tiburtini - as a stylisation of the traditional pin that has characterised Fuorisalone.it activities for 20 years. A tribute to what has always represented the official map through which to orient oneself among installations, exhibitions, parties and discussion panels during the most important week for the design industry.