In transitA Symposium curated by Formafantasma

PADIGLIONE REALE AND ARLECCHINO TRAIN
MILAN CENTRAL STATION
April 6, 7, and 8 2025

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Prada Frames

Prada Frames is the annual symposium, curated by design and research studio Formafantasma, that runs that runs parallel to Milan’s Salone del Mobile. The initiative sits at the intersection of design, culture, and society, exploring contemporary issues through a multiplicity of perspectives to convey and enhance complexities rather than taming them. Prada Frames is a project founded to provide the opportunity to collectively explore and share ideas, with a scientific yet educational and informative approach.

In transit

Under the title In Transit, the 2025 edition offers a prismatic gaze on infrastructure as a dynamic and multifaceted system that enables, restricts, and shapes movement, whether of people, goods, data, or power.

The symposium examines the interaction of mobility, design, and environment, addressing the impact of digital revolutions and global distribution networks on daily life; analyzes the disruptive nature of infrastructural advancements - from the internet to large-scale logistics systems - as well as advancements in procurement and distribution; considers how goods and products traverse the globe with an ease that human mobility, subject as it is to geopolitical biases and legal constraints, lacks, evaluating the inner contradictions of contemporary hypermobility.
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