The Glitch Camp
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The Glitch Camp is the first urban camping during Milano Design Week for students and young designers from all over the world
The Glitch Camp is the first free urban camping by IED and Fondazione Francesco Morelli during Milano Design Week. Our goal is to make the city more accessible to students and young designers from all over the world thanks to a free service that allows them to experience the activities and its many events first-hand.
New location
ExMacello Porta Vittoria - Viale Molise 62
The third edition of Glitch Camp will relocat to Ex Macello in Porta Vittoria, an iconic post‑industrial space full of character, where a major urban regeneration project is currently under way.
Would you like to take part of it?
If you are currently enrolled in a university and you are between 18 and 25 years old, don't hesitate.
You can fill in the application form at the bottom of the page and choose the option that you wish to book your tent.
The campsite will host up to 300 people during the event, thanks to the partnership with Ferrino, one of the oldest brands in the outdoor world, founded in Turin in 1870.
Production partner: Piano B
Two Night Experience
Stay two nights at The Glitch Camp:
· From Monday 20th to Wednesday 22th of April;
· Wednesday 22th to Friday 24th of April;
· Friday 24th to Sunday 26th of April.
The Glitch Week
This modality offers the possibility to stay for 6 nights at The Glitch Camp
This opportunity, which you can sign up for exclusively until March 30th, includes free accommodation from April 20th to 26th.
If you are selected, be aware to get the best from this opportunity and make sure you will attend it.
What services do we offer?
You’ll have access to a double tent shared with someone, toilets, showers, bar, security service and a welcome kit.
The glitchers will use a campsite equipped with Ferrino tents and each tent will be supplied with a set of IKEA, products, designed to ensure a comfortable night's sleep (mattress, pillow and duvet) and an individual set of towels and bed sheets.
If you want to share the tent with a specific person, you can enter their name in the form below. The other person will also have to register.
Since tents can host two people, if you plan to come alone, we will find you company. You will share the tent with a person of the same sex.
If this is not possible, we will inform you and evaluate the situation together.
Registration is open until April 10th 2026.
Upon receipt of your registration, we’ll confirm acceptance of your request and stay so that you can organise your trip. If all places are filled, we’ll put you on a waiting list.
How to register?
1) You must fill in the form at the bottom of this page.
2) Applicants are asked to send a short video presentation - maximum length 1 minute introducing yourself and answering the question: How can the experience of Milan Design Week help define your role as a designer in the current context?
The video may be used on IED's social and web channels together with selected content from the other participants.
The video must be submitted via WeTransfer, YouTube or Vimeo links.
Other info
Milano Design Week is one of the most important design events in the world and has made the city one of the world's design capitals since the 1960s. For one week, Milan is transformed by and for design.
The Fiera Milano exhibition centre in Rho hosts the annual Salone del Mobile, a trade fair that returns for its 63rd edition in 2025. An exhibition itinerary of the most important organisations in the sector presenting the latest innovations in the field of interior, products, and experience design.
On the other hand, more than 1,400 events take place at the Fuorisalone throughout the city. Major brands, art galleries, institutions and organisations present their vision in exceptional spaces and put on different activities, presentations, and parties for the public in different areas. Tortona, Brera, and Isola are some of the most popular Design Districts.
The centre is located close to the Milano-Tibaldi stop of the S9 train line (Passante Ferroviario di Trenord) and the M2 Romolo metro station. It’s also easily accessible by Tram 15 (Giambologna and/or Tibaldi stops) and bus lines 90, 91 and 59.
Not far from the camping area are the Navigli, the nerve centre of Milan's nightlife during Design Week - the Tortona District.
There are free and paid parking spaces around the camp.
Location: Ex Macello, Viale Molise 62, Milano
Ex Macello is located close to Milano – Porta Vittoria stop of S1 train line (Saronno-Lodi), S2 (Mariano Comense-Milano Rogoredo), S5 (Varese-Treviglio), S6 (Novara-Treviglio), S12 (Milano Bovisa - Melegnano) e S13 (Pavia-Milano Bovisa) and bus stations 90, 91, 66 e 93.
It's also easily accessible by tram 12, which connects Roserio (Ospedale Sacco) with Viale Molise, right where the Ex Macello is located. Using this tram, you can reach key points in the city, such as Duomo, Cordusio, Lanza, the Cimitero Monumentale, and the Villapizzone quarter.
Poco distante dall’area del campeggio si trova Porta Romana, Piazza Cinque Giornate e Porta Venezia.
- Salone del Mobile – Rho Fiera Milano: S5 or S1 from Porta Vittoria to Milano Fiera Rho stop.
- Isola Design District: S1, S2, S5, S12, or S13 from Porta Vittoria to Milano Porta Garibaldi stop.
- Brera Design District: tram 12 from V. Le Campania/V. Le Corsica stop to via Cusani stop.
- Tortona Design District: bus 91 from V. Le Molise to P. Le Susa, then M4 from Susa to California metro station.
- Duomo: Tram 12
- Porta Venezia: S1, S2, S5, S12, or S13 from Porta Vittoria to Porta Venezia (two stops).
Applications are open until 10/04 and in any case while places last.
You’ll be notified as soon as possible if your stay is confirmed or if you have been placed on the waiting list so that you can organise your departure.
IED disclaims all responsibility for personal belongings left in the tents, and urges people not to leave valuables objects at The Glitch Camp.
If you want to reach us out, you can write us at iedcamp@ied.it
Registration is closed.