ECOCENTRICO

“Ecocentrico” is a multidisciplinary project developed in partnership with Giacimenti Urbani. The project involves lecturers and students from different courses and from all IED Group campuses in Italy, Spain, and Brazil. “Ecocentrico” is an informative space intended to host visual, sound, and material labs and workshops run by the students: a large geodesic yurt hosts visual installations, the contents of which may be photographic, audio, video, and multimedia, while a second yurt will be built over the course of the week during workshops open to the public. The result of their experiences is an invitation to reflect on the changing urban landscape and the historical memory of places. Indeed, “Ecocentrico” expresses the IED Group's commitment to raising awareness on the issues of virtuous recovery and thus of urban and social regeneration, combined with the educational objective of stressing how design, understood as planning, is a tool for thinking up new relationships with the constituent materials of the urban fabric. As a partner, Giacimenti Urbani provides the recovered materials used by the students to build the exhibition project. Furthermore a small exhibition is the result of the “Studi visuali urbani” (Urban Visual Studies) workshop during the months leading up to Milan Design Week 2023.

Istituto Europeo di Design was founded in 1966 based on Francesco Morelli's extraordinary vision. Today, IED is the only School of Higher Education in the creative field to have preserved its Italian cultural references over time. Every year, IED launches innovative educational projects in the fields of study of Design, Fashion, Communication and Management, Arts and Restoration and Visual Arts, developing forms of learning and new models for interpreting the future. Internationally recognised, IED is a network that spanning over 3 countries: in Italy, in Spain and in Brazil. The IED Group's educational offer includes Undergraduate courses, Postgraduate and Continuing Education Courses.