The event will connect different generations in the form of a "participatory workshop", involving university students and children together who, in an informal and interactive way, will talk, draw and discuss topics such as energy, the future of cities and sustainability, finding a new and shared language. These are important topics, but they can also be addressed in simple, sometimes playful terms, so that they become increasingly inclusive and representative of a common awareness.

"WORDS & WORKS" marks the beginning of an awareness-raising path that will be pursued through the "D.E.SIGN" research in a multidisciplinary way, with the awareness that no step towards energy sustainability can be taken without also taking into account the social, cultural and educational dimension connected to it.

As a backdrop to the event and over the following days, it will be possible to appreciate the thematic installation created during the workshop: a new "energy vocabulary on a child's scale" built by local children, and "Soft Sculptures: three-dimensional tales for energy sustainability", an exhibition of poetic paper sculptures of shadows and light, designed by Design students from the Milan Polytechnic and the Iuav University of Venice.

During the workshop, while the children will be engaged in creative activities, accompanying adults will be able to visit the installations and exhibitions set up in the Design Differente space. Designers and creatives will be available for guided tours.

As part of the D.E.Sign project
Promoted by ENEA

With the collaboration of:
Department of Design, Politecnico di Milano
Department of Cultural and Environmental Heritage, University of Milan
Department of Design Culture, Iuav University of Venice
Design Differente, Affori Citizen Committee, Republic of Design