The Designing Togetherness talk explores plural design, understood as a form of alliance between bodies, with the natural environment or addressed at spatial policies that affect the urban community.
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TALK: Designing Togetherness
Date
21 March 2025
Based on the different interpretations behind The Glitch Camp, the public program Design Toghetherness looks at the practice of designing relationships and new alternatives to imagine a future based on being and working "together", including convivial and recreational aspects as a founding part and reinforcing the current, social, relational need for ‘well-being’ policies.
We organised an afternoon of cultural encounters on April 9th at 4.30 pm at BASE Milano with Carlo Alberto Redi and Manuela Monti, Gabriel Fontana, the Raumlaborberlin collective and cultural anthropologist Valeria M. Mosca. The guests, through the presentation of their own work, will discuss the theme of plural design, understood as a form of alliance between bodies, with the natural environment or aimed at spatial policies concerning the urban community.
Angela Rui (Head of MA IED Programs) and Linda Di Pietro (Artistic Director BASE Milano) curated the afternoon, with Benedetta Marietti (Cultural Committee, Fondazione Francesco Morelli) collaborating.
- The birth of the CON-dividual – Carlo Alberto Redi, Manuela Monti
Scientists Carlo Alberto Redi-biologist and essayist, and Manuela Monti-PhD in Bioengineering and Bioinformatics and researcher at the University of Pavia, will explain how the new concept of the CON-dividual is today the founding element of new ways of conceiving the existential architecture of social groups and emotional well-being.
- Beyond Competition: Playing for Connection – Gabriel Fontana
Starting from these considerations and investigating sport as a universal language, Gabriel Fontana -Social Designer and Creative Director- will explore how play and movement can reshape our understanding of identity, community and belonging.
- Tracing Encounters – Francesco Apuzzo, Raumlaborberlin
Looking at the temporary presence of The Glitch Camp, the experimental architecture collective Raumlaborberlin will highlight the ability of architecture and design to mobilise communities and citizens by considering participatory socio-spatial alternatives, where the city becomes a space of possibility and desire.
- Serving the Biosphere – Valeria Margherita Mosca
The programme will be closed by Valeria M. Mosca -a cultural anthropologist specialised in ethnobotany, environmentalist, and foraging guide- who will talk about her own activity as a path of rapprochement with nature, the valorisation of the territory, and the relationship between man and the environment.
Free entrance with registration at @BASE until full capacity. We recommend arriving 30 minutes beforehand.
Carlo Alberto Redi and Manuela Monti
Authors of DAN. Life in three billion letters, (Carocci, 2019), Preparing for the future. Chronicles from the life sciences (Il Mulino, 2022), Social genomics (Carocci, 2025).
Gabriel Fontana
Gabriel Fontana is a designer known for his unique approach to social design, focusing on reshaping society by creating new sports games tailored for today's world. His work has received international acclaim within the realms of education, culture, and the sports industry.
Francesco Apuzzo
Raumlaborberlin is an experimental architectural practice and a collective of 9 trained architects. They work at the intersection of architecture, city planning, art and urban intervention, addressing city and urban renewal as a process. They love difficult urban locations – places torn between different systems, time periods or planning ideologies, abandoned, left over, or just in transition – trusting the untapped potential which they try to activate. This approach opens new perspectives for alternative usage patterns, collective ideals, urban diversity and difference.
Valeria Margherita Mosca
Valeria Margherita Mosca is a cultural anthropologist specialised in ethnobotany, an environmentalist, and a hiking guide in foraging, environmental exploration and forest bathing. In 2010 she founded Wood*ing - wild food lab, the most important research laboratory on the use of wild food for human nutrition and forge of projects for the protection of biodiversity and cooperation with the environment.
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