NABA, Nuova Accademia di Belle Arti presents Extreme Environments

On the occasion of Milano Design Week, NABA, Nuova Accademia di Belle Arti, in collaboration with CIAL, Consorzio Nazionale per il Riciclo degli Imballaggi in Alluminio, presents the installation “Extreme Environments” from 21 to 26 April 2026 as part of MoscaPartners Variations 2026. Curated by Claudio Larcher, Andrea Mancuso, Michele Aquila, Luca Poncellini, Sofia D’Andrea, with Design Area students for the aluminum installations and MA in Creative Media Production students who developed the multimedia content.

“Extreme Environments” invites visitors to reflect on how design can react, adapt, and generate new visions in extreme contexts. The very concept of “environment” today goes beyond the natural landscape; it also includes climate conditions, habitable space, and social and cultural ecosystems.

“Extreme Environments” will welcome visitors to an immersive, research-driven experience that explores new perceptual relationships between space, matter, and the individual through physical and archetypal signs. Sculptural totems made of aluminium sheets, integrated with video content on an LED screen, will be the elements interacting with the historic space through contrasts, transforming metal surfaces into perceptual devices capable of amplifying and reinterpreting the experience of space.