The Platform
A curated selection of design in Venice.
The Platform brings to the international audience of the Venice Design Biennial the best stories about people, places, and practices around design culture in Venice.
The city and its territory host a surprisingly multi-faceted community of designers, makers, architects, and creative people who share an innovative approach, rooted in traditional craftsmanship and refined aesthetics.
The Platform's goal is to foster new connections and ideas.
2021 Edition
This 2021 edition of the Venice Design Biennial couldn’t be, as planned, the simple continuation of the previous ones. We all went through a difficult 2020 and are still navigating turbulent waters.
For this reason we presented the 3rd edition as an adaptive attempt to bring back design and contemporary creativity to reality, connecting Italian and international design researches to the urban structure of Venice even more than we did in the past, if possible.
Design as Self-Portrait - part I
20.05 → 27.06.2021
SPARC* - Spazio Arte Contemporanea
Campo Santo Stefano
San Marco, 2828a
Located in the heart of Venice, right next to the Accademia bridge, SPARC*-Spazio Arte Contemporanea is a private apartment facing Campo Santo Stefano. Design As Self-Portrait part I investigated the increasingly important role that design plays in what we choose to communicate our identity, in the permanent swing between use and representation, reality and virtuality.
Campo Santo Stefano San Marco, 2828a
Located in the heart of Venice, right next to the Accademia bridge, SPARC*-Spazio Arte Contemporanea is a private apartment facing Campo Santo Stefano. Design As Self-Portrait part I investigated the increasingly important role that design plays in what we choose to communicate our identity, in the permanent swing between use and representation, reality and virtuality.
Design as Self-Portrait - part II
20.05 → 27.06.2021
SPUMA - Space for the Arts
Fondamenta San Biagio 800R, Giudecca (Vaporetto stop Palanca)
SPUMA - Space for the Arts is an evocative space of industrial archeology, in an old Dreher brewery on Giudecca Island. After SPARC*, we kept on investigating the role that design plays in what we choose to communicate our identity with Design As Self-Portrait - part II.
Fondamenta San Biagio 800R, Giudecca (Vaporetto stop Palanca)
SPUMA - Space for the Arts is an evocative space of industrial archeology, in an old Dreher brewery on Giudecca Island. After SPARC*, we kept on investigating the role that design plays in what we choose to communicate our identity with Design As Self-Portrait - part II.
Past Forward. Designers from the Land of Venice
20.05 → 27.06.2021
Museo Archeologico Nazionale
(ingresso da Museo Correr)
Piazza San Marco 17/52
Past Forward. Designers from the Land of Venice displayed the works of 17 designers who live and work today in Venice and its territory. Combining the masterpieces of ancient art with contemporary design pieces, the exhibition intended to embody the double gaze towards the past and the future that has always characterized Venice.
(ingresso da Museo Correr) Piazza San Marco 17/52
Past Forward. Designers from the Land of Venice displayed the works of 17 designers who live and work today in Venice and its territory. Combining the masterpieces of ancient art with contemporary design pieces, the exhibition intended to embody the double gaze towards the past and the future that has always characterized Venice.