Five designers from Milan share their experiences of adapting creatively to these changing times WallpaperWorldView 🌏
Introducing our new series, which shines light on the creativity and resilience of designers around the world as they confront the challenges wrought by the Covid-19 pandemic. Working with contributing editors across eleven global territories, we reach out to creative talents to ponder the power of design in difficult times and share messages of hope.
The pandemic has changed almost every aspect of life as we know it. This reckoning is particularly strong in Milan, now that the 2020 Salone de Mobile has been officially cancelled. Theindustry faces a critical moment, having to reorient itself so as not to grind to a halt. But even as factories and workshops are forced shut, new ways of distance working are coming to light, thanks to the ingenuity of many people and the possibilities of contemporary technology.
Many of them have spoken of a shift in perspective. ‘We’ve had to think of alternative ways of collaborating with production companies, working around each other’s limitations with extraordinary empathy,’ says Marco Maturo, who runs Studio Klass with Alessio Roscini. Fittingly, Maturo and Roscini are conducting an in-depth study of workstations around the world to discover better ways of working.
Top, the lines between personal and professional life are becoming increasingly blurred, as seen in thisby husband-and-wife duo Vittorio Venezia and Carolina Martinelli of Martinelli Venezia. Bottom, Paolo Dell’Elce’s set-up at home, where he is revisiting an old research project on designing for emergencies
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