The workshops and exhibition, are the idea of Alessandro Guerriero and Riccardo Dalisi and are promoted by NABA Nuova Accademia di Belle Arti and the Triennale Design Museum.

The idea of a Tin Compasses award exists over and above any reference to the famous and prestigious Golden Compasses and the role that this has played in the history of international design.

“In the current climate of recession and the consequent changes taking place in every economic, social and cultural aspect, the Tin Compasses aim is to emphasise the revived need for inventions, ideas, projects, procedures and techniques in the artisan sector of small productions, embryonic, organizational initiatives and micro productions with a clear social purpose, at times even alternatives to the use of mechanical procedures and in the industrial sector at long last focussed on sustainability.” – is written in Manifesto of the Compasses.

The set up which is in place host a selection created by Riccardo Dalisi, the objects produced in the workshops and a number of satellite exhibitions.

Triennale Bovisa also host the exhibition of a series of ‘collections’ of objects that intersect the world of the Tin Compasses. There are three main ‘collections’ surrounded by a series of other ‘collected’ objects (material rather than immaterial) on show for the entire duration of the event.

Furthermore, thirty workshops  inspired by a series of key words taken out of the Manifesto Compass Tin (invention, change, scale, micro, sustainability, experimentation, drama, action …) are open to the public.

These workshops are conducted by designers and other creative people  from different departments of  NABA and and other international universities (Central St. Martins, Architectural Association School of Design, University of Dundee, Virginia Commonwealth University, Holon Institute of Technology and others).

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Each workshop is open to anyone and every day the space become an unique  big laboratory that visitors can see, touch, test and experiment with real-time exposition of different ‘collections’ of objects and ideas created during the workshops.

Over the coming months, an international jury and the audience will select the most deserving projects, based on several categories of valuation: a total of 12 awards , 11 on the basis of many categories covered by a special jury and  1 audience award .

For more information of competition visit the official web site www.compassodilatta.org

Behind each chair is a history and this project aims to highlight the importance  the sociological context, personal, geographical and historical design.

for more info about exhibitions vist the site www.triennaledesignmuseum.it

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This second interpretation illustrates the contemporary landscape of Italian design, ranging from experimental research to mass markets, crafts to advanced technologies, small businesses to globalized corporations.

The museum ‘stages’ Italian design by updating not only its thematic approach but also its exhibit design, done by Antonio Citterio and Partners, covering the 2000 sq meters of the museum, with the sole exception of the Teatro Agorà designed by Italo Rota in 2007.

The opening  for the public, 21. March 2009.
for more information visit the web site www.triennaledesignmuseum.it

After three years of work , the Italian design has found the place where put on display. On 6 December, it opened its doors in Milan ,”Triennale Design Museum. Instead of a mausoleum or a showroom it will be a dynamic museum. There will be a rotation speed of productions every 18-24 month to persuade the public to return repeatedly.

If we make a comparison with serial television , we could say that this opening like permanent collection of museum, put its first episode about a theme “What is Italian design?”

The director Peter Greenway, made a good host to visitors with a multi screen projection. The museum shares ten thematic areas. First steps of visitors were in ” Teatro Agora”, designed by Italo Rota, what is the heart of the new museum. This space covered with raw wood and equipped with multiple video equipment, and it will host meetings and performances. Then, there are “La Luce dello Spirito” as forms and emotions of the lighting between design and technology (film by Antonio Capuano). “La Dinamicita” speaks about innovation and experimentation from futurism to today (David Ferrari).

The Italian design as a symbol of bourgeois modernity by armchair Martingala Marco Zanuso (film by Silvio Soldini), in the space of the”I Grandi Borghesi.”

Furthermore is “Il Teatro Animista”, as a home theater, objects as actors talk with the people, from armchair Proust by Alessandro Mendini (film by Mario Martone). Even a large challenge between “la democrazia impilabile, la semplicità, il super-confort, il ponte e il fiato alle trombe” like the best design.