Being Home: the Prada Frames symposium curated by Formafantasma

Prada presents the 2024 Prada Frames symposium that, curated by Formafantasma, is going to explore the complex interaction between design and the environment.

For its third edition ‘‘Being Home’, Prada Frames examines the living environment as a framework to address contemporary challenges.

The home is not merely a source of comfort; it acts as a shelter and an infrastructure of services. This constantly evolving space is also where socio-economic norms have historically been shaped.

Prada Frames will include contributions from Paola Antonelli, Brigitte Baptiste, Kate Crawford, Jack Halberstam, OFFICE Kersten Geers David Van Severen, Anna Puigjaner, Alice Rawsthorn, Isabella Rossellini, and Françoise Vergès among others.

The event takes place from Sunday, April 14, through Tuesday, April 16, at the Bagatti Valsecchi Museum in Milan, located at Via Gesù 5. The venue, a residence until 1974, is a nineteenth-century neo-Renaissance house featuring fifteenth and sixteenth-century objects and furniture. It is a unique example of overlapping centuries and stands as an early example of Milanese design. For this occasion, the house will open its doors for intimate conversations and thematic lectures. The sessions are simultaneously hosted in the living room, bedroom, dining room, bathroom, and library, creating an uninterrupted exchange of information across the space.

The full program will be shared in the following weeks.

Prada Frames brings together scholars and professionals from various fields, including designers, architects, curators, scientists, anthropologists, activists and legal and economic experts, employing a transdisciplinary methodology and a shared environmentally attentive approach. The resulting collective reflection combines innovative lines of thought to analyse, contextualise and define a new reality.

Prada Frames is a project founded to provide the opportunity to collectively explore and share ideas, with a scientific yet educational and informative approach.

The event will be free, subject to availability.

The registration link will be available starting the 9th of April.