Vico Magistretti Between Milan and the World

October 5 2023, 9.30am – 7.30pm

The first international conference—organized together with the Vico Magistretti Foundation—on the work of the Milanese architect and designer, in order to stimulate a new season of studies capable of updating the horizons of research, in Italy and abroad, with an international perspective. The work of Vico Magistretti (1920-2006) offers countless themes and research paths to be explored. Among them is the network of international relations that Magistretti and his work knew how to create from 1945 to the present day, both directly and indirectly.

Program

9.00 am Opening

9.30 am INSTITUTIONAL GREETINGS / INTRODUCTION TO THE CONFERENCE Margherita Pellino, Fondazione studio museo Vico Magistretti; Nina Bassoli, curatrice per Architettura, rigenerazione urbana e città, Triennale Milano; Gabriele Neri, Politecnico di Torino; Marco Sammicheli, curatore per Design, moda e artigianato e Direttore del Museo del Design Italiano, Triennale Milano.

10 am – 1.00 pm FIRST SESSION From Switzerland to the Mediterranean

10 am Vico: from refugee in the Italian University Camp in Lausanne to master of Italian Design Matteo Ocone (Università di Roma Tor Vergata)

10.25 am Signals from Switzerland: prefabrication between 'style and industry' Maria Vittoria Capitanucci (Politecnico di Milano)

10.50 am Genius loci: Magistretti and the CIAM Anna Santi (Politecnico di Milano)

11.15 am Vico Magistretti and the design for the industry Gianluca Capurso (Università di Roma Tor Vergata), Lorenzo Grieco (Università di Roma Tor Vergata)

11.40 am Magistretti and the Mediterranean Giuseppe Verterame (University of Parma)

12.30 am Vico Magistretti in Teheran, screening of the video made on the occasion of the Vico Magistretti exhibition in Tehran at the Italian Embassy in Tehran curated by Yousef Nili (Shahid Behesti University of Tehran) and Mohammadreza Movahedi

2 –3.30 pm SECOND SESSION Elective affinities: Vico in England and Japan

2 pm Vico Magistretti and England Penny Sparke (Kingston University London)

2.15 pm From Milano to London and back. The Broomstick collection for Alias Davide Fornari (ECAL / Ecole cantonale d'art de Lausanne)

2.40 pm Tanimoto Chair designed in Japan by Vico Magistretti Satoru Kimura (Ritsumeikan University, Kyoto)

3.05 pm An Italian memory in Tokyo. Vico Magistretti and the other modernity Viola Bertini (Sapienza Università di Roma), Cristian Sammarco (Sapienza Università di Roma)

3.30 –4.30 pm THIRD SESSION Word of Vico

3.30 pm The words of the architect Bibiana Borzi (Università di Catania)

3.55 pm Magister Magistretti. Teaching design around the world Matteo Pirola (IULM Università di Milano)

4.30 – 5.30 pm PANEL DISCUSSION Vico Magistretti and the Italian project in the world. New perspectives Giampiero Bosoni, Elena Dellapiana, Fulvio Irace, Luca Poncellini

5.30 – 5.50 pm CALL FOR CURATORS AWARD CEREMONY

5.50 – 6 pm INSTITUTIONAL GREETINGS Stefano Boeri, President of Triennale Milano Susanna Magistretti, President of Fondazione studio museo Vico Magistretti

6 – 7 pm KEYNOTE LECTURE KONSTANTIN GRCIC

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Credits

Thanks to NABA, Nuova Accademia di Belle Arti