The fifth edition of the Milan Festival della Crescita will start at Le Village by Crédit Agricole – actually a workplace that generates Happiness.
The projects and practices related toHappiness will be protagonists of the 2019 edition of the Festival conceived by Francesco Morace.
On 17 October afternoon aims to highlight happy and sustainable projects, sharing visions and processes with designers.
The next two days of the 18th and 19th – at the Palazzo delle Stelline – will deal transversally with the theme of happiness, focusing on sustainability, education, cohabitation, mobility.
The Festival, free and open to the public, includes talks and open workshops for adults and children. The program is rich with high level of the speakers sharing their visions about “Designing Happiness”.
Among the interventions of the early afternoon, Thursday 17: “Abitare Felicemente” by the architect and designer Mario Trimarchi (at 6 pm) and the lectio magistralis by Michele De Lucchi “Earth Stations Many Hands” (at 4.30 pm).
Cristina Morozzi in the dialogue entitled “Leonardo the first Designer”, will tell the artist’s dreams and projects (October 18 at 12).
Also on Friday 18 we will talk about Happiness at Work during the meeting “Playfactory: play as a tool for happiness and growth” with Daniela di Ciaccio (2BHappy Agency) Veruscka Gennari (2BHappy Agency) and Lucia Berdini (Play Coach and World Laughter Ambassador).
Science of Happiness and its applications in the workplace will be treated, again by Daniela Di Ciaccio and Veruscka Gennari (2BHappy) also in the Open Hub entitled “Positive Organizations” (19 October 10).
Among the other meetings on Saturday we mention “The new challenges of Design” where Giuliano Mosconi, CEO of Tecno and Zanotta with Francesco Morace, of Future Concept Lab, will analyze the winning cases of both the companies (19 October at 16.30).
On the occasion of the 100th anniversary of the Bauhaus, the Open Hub entitled “The desirability of the sign” will be dedicated to these true pioneers of design, a meeting between art, design and urban transformation that focuses on desire, as the engine of existence (19 October at 3 pm)
Here the complete three-day program.
In brief
Title:
5th Festival della Crescita di Milan “Designing Happiness”
Where / When:
Le Village by Crédit Agricole, Corso di Porta Romana 61, Milan (Thursday 17 October 2019 from 15 to 18.30)
Palazzo delle Stelline, Corso Magenta 61, Milan (Friday 18 and Saturday 19 from 9.30 to 19.30)