duepercinque contest
International competition now open

The transformation of public spaces usually dedicated to cars. Installations, communication projects, services for the city, performances, actions and pieces of urban forniture. The only limit is that they will have to fit into a 2x5-metre parking place. A new research space to experiment innovative and creative solutions for the city.

After the success of its first edition, that counted over 800 projects from all over the world, Public Design Festival announces the second edition of the duepercinque contest, the international call for entries to search for ideas for public spaces. The selected projects will be presented during the festival, that will take place in Milan on April 13th-18th 2010 during the Milan's International Furniture Fair (Salone Internazionale del Mobile).

The call for entries will be open till February 10th 2010. To participate you have to fill in the subscribe form.
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Public Design Festival 2010 - second edition
Milan, April 13th to 18th

For over fourteen years, esterni has been working to highlight public spaces as the place where cities develop and grow. It has been developing the concept of public design - an effective instrument to meet and understand the new needs of modern social life.

Milan, Settimana del Salone Internazionale del Mobile (International Furniture Fair)
A city in which public spaces are conceived as places of private interest, as containers for cars and advertising images, and in which they are used as a media showcase that has to be exploited as long as there is something to show. A festival that - on the contrary - wants to re-affirm the central role and the importance of public spaces as places belonging to everyone, open and useful to all citizens, and shared by everyone.

It could be supporting or light structures, art installations, services, urban furniture, means of transport, but also integrated systems in hospitality and tourism, emergency actions or long-term urban planning. All projects, services, and installations of Public Design Festival will not be just on display, but they will actively involve the Salone audience and all the citizens of Milan.

Why Public Design Festival?

Public space is the place where the city is created, it is everyone's place. Public spaces as an opportunity for personal and cultural growth, as a playground where the game has no rules, as the first field of debate, in which curiosity can result in knowledge and everyone's actions can change the world. Public design as an instrument to re-design them, offering objects, services, installations, hospitality systems, and means of transport to live this space in the best way possible.

For further information please have a look at publicdesignfestival.org.



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