Turin Design of the City

The Italian translation of the term design is project, it is a word that contains within itself the very notion of future. You don't design for now, you design for the after, which comes in a second or a year.
Never before has the project become such a constituent part of our life, almost a synonym of tomorrow and hope. And never before have we realized how essential the planning and re-planning of services, cities, and even ourselves is in our community life.

Exhibitions, festivals and performances
From Graphic Days, which opens with “Transitions” and investigates the paradigms and scenarios relating to society and the environment and their transitions, up to Utopian Hours, the last exhibition on the programme, which reflects on the theme “The City at Stake” and goes to the heart of the problem: the identity and raison d’être of the city are today profoundly under discussion.

Graphic Days® Transitions
Graphic Days® presents Transitions, the 2020 edition of the festival dedicated to graphics that will involve Institutions, Associations and an international panel of professionals linked to visual design to investigate the paradigms and scenarios relating to society and the environment and their transitions.
http://www.graphicdays.it

Hackability
Hackability is a non-profit founded in Turin in 2016, to bring together the skills of designers, makers, digital artisans, with the needs (and inventiveness) of people with disabilities, through the methodology of co-design and open innovation, to allow the creation of innovative and personalized solutions for autonomy and care. In the co-design process of Hackability, which recently won the Honorable Mention of the XXVI Compasso d'Oro ADI Award, the focus shifts from products (which are all released in open source) to innovation and research processes that allow the acquisition of new knowledge on the needs related to autonomy.
http://www.hackability.it/

Virtual visit to the UN Campus in Turin
FRIDAY 9 OCTOBER 2020, 17.00 PM – 19.00 PM PLACE Zoom Platform
UNESCO CENTER TURIN
Virtual visit to the UN Campus in Turin: transformation of the Pavilions of Italy '61 (1961), which hosted the "Mostra delle Regioni", into structures that welcome United Nations Organizations: ITC/ILO, UNICRI, UNSSC, UNESCO Center of Turin, SIOI Piedmont and Valle d'Aosta.
A unique and enlightened redevelopment that has made this green and little-known area of ​​Turin the only United Nations Campus in the world.
http://www.centrounesco.to.it

Throughout the month, the city offers the Torino Fashion Week, but also the virtual visit to the UN Campus in Turin, the exhibition “Lingotto Lives & Re-Lives”, a 2020 masterclass on making a museum accessible, the exhibition “Unico. Art design” which highlights the hybrid and exclusive nature of art design works, alongside the exhibition proposed by Sant'Agostino Casa d'Aste, the presentation of the results of the research and the Felicità Civica ideas competition, the events at the Mauto and many other initiatives and exhibitions.

It will also be possible to attend online the round tables, scheduled in English, organized as part of the meeting of the UNESCO Creative Cities of Design, this year hosted by the city of Graz in collaboration with St. Étienne. The meeting focuses on the social, intelligent and sustainable aspects of urban development and includes, among the guests, Andrea Paoletti, Charles Landry and Aglaée Degros.

Appointments organized by the City of Turin
There are two. The first is held on October 16 and involves the delegates of the Italian UNESCO Creative Cities. It will see the signing of the Protocol that will set the common lines of work to be shared with the new nominated creative cities, including Biella. The aim is to strengthen the network and build collaborative projects between the Creative Cities at regional and national level.

The second is a day scheduled for October 29 and organized in collaboration with the Circolo del Design. It is dedicated to the presentation of the research “Turin City of Design”. The work is carried out by the Santagata Foundation for the Economy of Culture with the support of Compagnia di San Paolo and the Chamber of Commerce of Turin and has outlined the common elements of identity, visions and needs expressed by the players in the city design sector. It is the basis for the construction of the lines of intervention that the Administration will implement in the coming years.

The program of Torino Design of the City can be consulted on the website www.torinodesigncity.it, which also collects insights and the latest updates.