Future Impact 3: DESIGN NATION

Event details

  • Date and Time

    8 – 13 April 2025
    Open daily from 10am – 7pm (CEST)

  • Location

    Chiesa di San Bernardino alle Monache (Cinque Vie District)
    Via Lanzone, 13
    20123 Milano (MI), Italy

  • Event Fee

    Free

Details

DesignSingapore Council returns to Milan Design Week from 8 April to 13 April 2025 with Future Impact 3: DESIGN NATION !

Curated by Tony Chambers, Maria Cristina Didero and for the first time a Singaporean curator, Hunn Wai, the third instalment of the series celebrates 60 years of Singapore Design, investigating how ways of living have transformed over time.

Left to right, clockwise: Render of Future Impact 3: DESIGN NATION at Chiesa di San Bernardino alle Monache, and co-curators Tony Chambers, Maria Cristina Didero, Hunn Wai. Render by TC & Friends, photos by Chris Floyd, Delfino Sisto Legnani and Khoo Guo Jie respectively. 

Examining where people live, what they need and how they use it, visitors will be taken on a design journey through Singapore across the three-part showcase: 

  • Little Island of Brave Ideas traces design’s crucial role in nation-building through the milestones that define Singapore.
  • Future Impact 3 will spotlight Singapore’s most relevant and forward-looking designers today, showcasing works that harness the power of design and technology to elevate everyday lives and address urgent societal issues.  
  • Virtuoso Visionaires takes a leap into the future with the next wave of emerging Singaporean designers who are using design to tackle critical priorities confronting their generation.  

Don’t miss these programmes at Future Impact 3: DESIGN NATION

  • Live with Monocle: 9 Apr 2025, 3pm – 8.30pm (CEST)
  • Singapore Friday Late Party: 11 Apr 2025, 5pm – 10pm (CEST)
  • Designer-led workshops throughout the week 

Organiser

DesignSingapore Council

DesignSingapore Council’s (Dsg) vision is for Singapore to be an innovation-driven economy and a loveable city through design by 2025. As the national agency that promotes design, our mission is to develop the design sector, help Singapore use design for innovation and growth, and make life better in this UNESCO Creative City of Design. Dsg is a subsidiary of the Singapore Economic Development Board.

Contact
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Top image by TC & Friends

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