MoscaPartners’ poetic exploration of ‘migration’ in Milan

Throughout Milan Design Week 2025, MoscaPartners returns to Palazzo Litta with a bunch exhibition exploring innovation and creativity by way of the theme ‘Migrations’. This idea focuses on cultural alternate and the mixing of various concepts, highlighting design as a journey throughout borders, each bodily and conceptual.

‘I consider there’s all the time a connection between a undertaking and the world round us, the occasions unfolding in our time. Context is essential,’ says Caterina Mosca, who based MoscaPartners alongside her late co-founder Valerio Castelli. ‘We selected the theme of migration to emphasize the significance of encounters and exchanges between cultures, in addition to the motion of concepts. Design, like society as a complete, is formed by these interactions – by folks, supplies, and strategies that journey throughout borders and evolve by way of collaboration.’

MoscaPartners returns to Palazzo Litta with immersive group exhibition themed on ‘migration’

On the coronary heart of the exhibition is ‘No one Owns the Land: Earth, Forest, Mahk’, a robust site-specific set up by acclaimed Korean architect Byoung Cho, making his Italian debut. Put in in the primary courtyard, the piece transforms your entire area into what seems to be an unlimited area of sand – however is the truth is finely crushed crimson Verona marble. It is unexpectedly easy underfoot, and guests are inspired to take off their sneakers and wander, partaking bodily with the terrain.

On the wall, a quiet provocation: ‘No one owns the land’. The work invitations reflection on land, id, and coexistence by way of pure parts – just like the earth, represented by a collection of clay bowls crafted within the custom of Korean mahksabal ceramics, every distinctive and imperfect. Towering vertical panels, marked with daring, spontaneous brushstrokes, abstractly evoke a forest – created dwell by the artist in an act of unrepeatable spontaneity. ‘The set up by Byoung Cho affords a profound reflection on shared areas and interconnectedness, reminding us that nobody really owns the land – it belongs to all of us,’ says Mosca. ‘On this sense, “migrations” isn’t just a theme however a key to raised understanding the world round us.’

Spanning the historic ‘Piano nobile’ of Palazzo Litta, the exhibition options 24 members from 12 nations, every presenting distinctive interpretations of the theme, every bringing a singular perspective and experience. ‘This range displays the fact of a world the place creativity is aware of no boundaries, the place influences mix to create one thing new and sudden,’ explains Mosca. For MoscaPartners, Palazzo Litta is a sort of homecoming. The apply was among the many first to find the location’s potential again in 2014, and among the many visionaries who recognised {that a} Milanese courtyard is an unmatched stage for design installations.

As for the theme, Migrations, in a world going through political and societal shifts, design is positioned as a medium for dialogue, empathy, and shared futures, the founder explains. The theme isn’t meant to be taken actually, she continues, because it’s symbolic – about motion, transformation, and the passage of concepts. ‘Our exhibitions at Palazzo Litta have all the time been a spot for dialogue, the place guests can immerse themselves in several design languages and views. I hope they depart impressed, not solely by the aesthetics of what they see but in addition by the tales and concepts behind every undertaking’ says Mosca. ‘I would love them to mirror on how design shapes our relationship with area and society – and to take with them the idea that creativity generally is a pressure for constructive change on the earth.’

Among the many works proven is ‘Cultifutura’ by Italian model CultEvo, bringing vertical farming into on a regular basis life. From Bangladesh, Fico presents ‘Woven Air’, a celebration of heritage by way of geometric wooden panels interlaced with handwoven Jamdani materials. Marrimor, the Canadian duo Tanja Breadner and Lauren Bugliarisi, give new life to the ‘Toof’ tables – playful types impressed by Vancouver‘s rain puddles.

Officine Tamborrino, along with MCA Design, displays on the ‘migration of reminiscence’ with ‘Memè’, a recent tackle the previous Italian credenza, mixing nostalgia and reinvention. One of the crucial visually placing works is ‘Golden Gentle Cage’ by Luc Druez, developed with LcD Textile. The set up – set in a glass-floored room – traps the attention in a luminous net made out of reclaimed supplies and semi-precious steel threads. Again within the courtyard, Base Occasions showcases conventional craftsmanship from Japan’s Kawaguchi district. The result’s a set of collaborative works born from the migration of abilities and strategies – sudden, hybrid, and deeply modern.

Lastly, a deeply inclusive spirit runs by way of the undertaking by Adrenalina, in collaboration with the Museo Tattile Statale Omero from Ancona and the Francesco Cavazza Institute for the Blind in Bologna. The consequence on show is a modular couch designed with accessibility in thoughts – no laborious corners, recessed bases, and a gentle extensive island filled with pockets and compartments. However essentially the most shifting half is that college students from the Cavazza Institute will information guests by way of the set up: sighted friends on Tuesday (blindfolded), and blind or visually impaired friends on Wednesday and Thursday – flipping the notice on how we expertise design by way of contact, reminiscence, and creativeness.