Milano Design Agenda

A new festival dedicated to contemporary board and role-playing games, exploring the cultural value of play. Over 80 previews, 150 game tables, an escape room, meet-and-greets with game designers, talks, exhibitions (including one on women in game design), and an evening party. 

The first of three events that transform the Hotel Indigo Milan into a meeting place where design, creativity, and contemporary hospitality converge
Design Ironico will be the guest of honor at the first evening: a project that reinterprets everyday objects with a lighthearted and ironic touch, transforming design into an opportunity for dialogue and sharing.

DJ set by Carlo Pietropoli
Free admission
Aperitif package: €18 (signature cocktail and gourmet finger food)

A series of workshops to rediscover practices of thought and design as an act of poetic resistance.
#1 A conversation with philosophers, linguists, designers, artists, and photographers.

An exhibition dedicated to the city and its most everyday details: poles, manhole covers, drinking fountains, stickers, trolley wires, and abandoned bicycles.

A series of workshops to rediscover practices of thought and design as an act of poetic resistance.
#2 Drawing by hand as a form of inner discipline

A series of workshops to rediscover practices of thought and design as an act of poetic resistance.
#3 Photography as empathy

A series of workshops to rediscover practices of thought and design as an act of poetic resistance.
#4 The Italian language and the narrative of reality

In this workshop, inspired by the exhibition on Andrea Branzi, children are invited to work together to create a temporary, ever‑changing installation. Cardboard pieces, stones, and small wooden sticks become the elements of a collective landscape that grows without a center or boundaries, echoing the open city envisioned by architect and designer Andrea Branzi. 
A creative experience designed to explore design in an intuitive and playful way.

An evening dedicated to war games—from Risiko to historical wargames—to explore maps, borders, and territories as tools of power and representations of history. In collaboration with Spin Master.
Featured game: Risiko

A series of encounters dedicated to discovering the details of our institution, transformed into stories through reading. Each session features a read‑aloud of three picture books, all linked by a shared element—an object, a shape, a color—found within the spaces of the Palazzo. Between one story and the next, we go on a hunt for these elements inside the building, training a curious and imaginative gaze.

This workshop explores the fundamentals of ceramic work through the making of a table lamp built using the coiling technique. Each participant will be guided in giving shape to their own aesthetic vision and design, drawing inspiration from their personal references and or design forms of the past and present.