What is the impact of Design Week on Milan? It’s a question we ask ourselves every year when shaping our program.
Grounded in responsible material practice, durable design and guided by a focus on continuity and purpose, we developed — together with
@nike — AirLab: a project conceived not as a showcase, but as a contribution.
AirLab is a laboratory where air becomes a medium for making — shaping materials, forms, design and architecture through machines, processes and experimentation. Presented during Design Week, it was never meant to end there.
AirLab now becomes a permanent facility within Dropcity, open to the wider community of designers and architects in Milan and beyond.
This is our proposition: to use the opportunities generated by Design Week not for instant consumption and inevitable disuse, but to transform them into lasting civic infrastructure.
To turn an event into a resource. A temporary moment into long-term value. Design, in this context, it’s about setting conditions. It’s not a statement, but a shared tool.
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Dropcity Team
Project Leadership
Giada Zuan
Concept and Research
Aleksandra Fixl
Barbara Xu
Luca de Carvalho
Project Management
Silvia Guerrini
Air Lab Direction
Andrea Anner & Thibault Brevet
@aatb_ch
Michela Pascali
Air Lab Staff
Cecilia Cardinali
Francesca Parmiggiani
Lena Brkic
Rohan Rana
Valentina Steffenoni
Building Architect
Jacopo Suardi
Exhibition Design
Andrea Derni
Aleksandra Fixl
Ilayda Nehir
Joddy Patrianagara
Manuela Mannarini
Riccardo Squarcina
Production Coordination
Bogdan Martoiu
Production Development
Barbara Xu
Costanza Caccialanza
Elena Ferrando
Sound Equipment
Giorgio Di Salvo (Air Entrance)
@giorgiodisalvo
Marinella Malerba (Air Culture)
Workshops Program Coordination and Management
Arianna Bravi
Beatrice Del Core
Gian Marco Bonzi
Sofia Chiurazzi
Vanessa Pinzoni
Technical Support
B.S. Macchine
@bsmacchine
Leister Technologies Italia
@leister.italia
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