Furniture expo.Milano 2025: Drafting Futures Returns with Talks and Roundtables

After the success of last year, the 2025 edition of the Talks and Round Tables returns with a rich cultural programme. Again under the title "Drafting Futures. Conversations about Next Perspectives" (hall 14), the program, edited by Annalisa Rosso, Editorial Director & Cultural Events Advisor of the Salon, focuses on the transmission of knowledge and experiences to prompt a reflection on the opportunities and responsibilities we have today, towards a tomorrow that is already present. Il Furniture expo.Milano, as well as being the most important moment for the furniture sector business, Is also a indispensable cultural reference, a witness to how direct encounters and the exchange of points of view are an opportunity for growth with virtuous transversal consequences.

The new program, split in two two different formats of Talks (in the morning) and Round Tables (in the afternoon), will host some of the most interesting personalities in international design. To open the proceedings, Valeria Segovia (9 April), Principal, Design Director of Gensler in London, the world's largest architecture firm by revenue and number of architects with clients in over 100 countries – recognized as a talented architect, since the very beginning committed to reducing environmental impact and improving the well-being of the communities in which it operates. The architect will follow later Bjarke Ingels, (April 10), Founder and Creative Partner of Bjarke Ingels Group, which will invite us to reflect on how materiality, technology and human interaction can redefine the future of urbanism.

Lesley Lokko (April 11) – Architect, Curator of the 18th International Architecture Exhibition of the Venice Biennale, and Founder, Chair African Futures Institute – will teach us, instead, that at the heart of every project there is a main and decisive tool: imagination. To close the Talk 2025, Paolo Sorrentino (April 12), Oscar-winning director who will tell us about waiting, the theme of his installation project at the event, in conversation with Antonio Monda, journalist and professor at New York University.

The afternoon meetings of the Round Tables will beInstead, dedicated to comparisons between authoritative voices on crucial sectors, today, for design and architecture and they will have as title The Business of Design: Global Perspectives on Trade, E-Commerce, and Distribution (April 10) and The Business of Hospitality: Where Design Meets Functionality (April 11). The stage of the program will be The Arena Drafting Futures, created by Formafantasma, which host even for the second year the Salone Library project: a selection of books suggested by the speakers themselves that will focus on light.

Talk

Wednesday April 9
11.00 am, in English
Valeria Segovia, Principal, Design Director Gensler London
in conversation with Massimo De Conti, Architect, Journalist

Thursday April 10th
11.00 am, in English
Bjarke Ingels, Architect, Founder and Creative Partner Bjarke Ingels Group
in conversation with Oliva Sartogo, Co-Founder & Architect Lead VIV Arts

Friday April 11th
11.00 am, in English
Lesley Lokko, Founder, Chair African Futures Institute
in conversation with Manuela Lucà-Dazio, Executive Director The Pritzker Architecture Prize

Saturday April 12th
11.00 am, in Italian
Paolo Sorrentino, Oscar-winning director
in conversation with Antonio Monda, Journalist

Round Tables

Wednesday April 9
14.30 am, in Italian
Manufacturing excellence and Italian Style in the world: comparing experiences for growth on international markets
By Intesa Sanpaolo

Wednesday April 9
16.00 am, in English
The Business of Design: Global Perspectives on Trade, E-Commerce, and Distribution

Mohammed Habbas Al Mutairi, Owner, General Manager Gallery Design
Nivangi Davda, Head Interior Design JSW Realty
Dawei Wang, Founder, President Classic Living Group
Gilles Massé, Design Curator, WallpaperStore*, Frankbros, The Level Group

Claudio Spotti, Spotti Milano
Stephan Weishaupt, Founder Weishaupt Design Group
Moderated by Anne-France Berthelon, Journalist and Creative Consultant

Thursday April 10th
16.00 am, in English
The Business of Hospitality: Where Design Meets Functionality
Pierre-Yves Rochon, Founder and Global Design Director, PYR
Elisa Orlanski Ours, Chief Planning, Design Officer Corcoran Sunshine Marketing Group
Andrea Obertello, General Manager Four Seasons Hotel Milano
Dino Michael, Senior Vice President & Global Head Hilton Luxury Brands
Moderated by Christele Harrouk, Editor in Chief Archdaily

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