Event Details

During the last edition, after only 2 years since the birth of the Porta Venezia Design District, the main streets of the district have hosted 45 installations and 300 designers from all over the world, registering an estimated passage of more than 60,000 visitors, 50% more than the first year. The district also hosted some of the most important projects of Milan Design Week, winning the Fuorisalone Award with the Re-Creation installation by LASVIT, a leading glass processing company.
For the 2025 edition, the Porta Venezia Design District presents No Boundaries Design. To create, one must first question everything. In an age when the boundary between physical and digital reality is dissolving, when the boundaries between art, science, technology, and nature are constantly renegotiating, design is an act of radical questioning, a field of tension between what exists and what could exist. No Boundaries Design is not just a theme, but a manifesto: to create, one must first question everything.
Inspired by the visionary legacy of Eileen Gray, a pioneer of modernism and an erratic figure on the design and architecture scene, this year's concept is a detonator of new expressive possibilities. Just as Gray rejected clear-cut categorizations between art, design, and architecture, No Boundaries Design breaks down disciplinary barriers to redefine the role of the contemporary designer: no longer a mere performer of functions, but an activator of questions, a builder of narratives, an explorer of hybrid spaces.
In a context dominated by formal conventions and established paradigms, the Porta Venezia district develops as a diffuse immersive path, in which the language of design becomes a tool for deconstruction, re-signification, and cultural and social exploration. Through innovative installations, materials, and processes, the exhibition narrative translates Gray's thinking into experience: the object is never static, the space is never definitive, the user is never passive. 
Highlights
GOOGLE - Making the Invisible Visible
ŠKODA AUTO | MARCANTONIO - THIS WAY
WONDERGLASS & CALICO WALLPAPER - POETICA
Calico Wallpaper & Stephen Burks Man Made - Particulare
Marc-Antoine Barrois - Mission Aldebaran
6:AM GLASSWORKS & PISCINA COZZI - Two-Fold Silence Exhibition
CONVEY - “Convey Bar” e “Convey Market
ECCENTRICO - URBAN MEADOW - Urban Meadow
CONSOLATO REPUBBLICA CECA & MAXIM VELČOVSKÝ - Triumph of Trophies
FONDAZIONE LUIGI ROVATI - Lakapoliesis di Matteo Cibic
Raffles Milano - Boundless Creativity
BBA Studio - Infill Heritage
USM MODULAR FURNITURE - Connected by Our Dreams
ZUCCHETTI RUBINETTERIA - Cabinets of curiosities
And more