MILANO (ITALPRESS) – NABA, Nuova Accademia di Belle Arti is at the Milan Design Week 2026 with “Extreme Environments”, an immersive installation created in collaboration with CIAL, National Consortium for the recycling of Aluminium Packaging. On display from 21 to 26 April at Palazzo Litta (Corso Magenta, 24) in MoscowPartners Variations 2026, which this year has as the theme Metamorphosis. Curated by Claudio Larcher, Andrea Mancuso, Luca Poncellini, Michele Aquila and Sofia D’Andrea, the installation was born from a shared research that involved the students of the Design Area for aluminum installations that make up the exhibition path and those of the Specialistic Biennio in Creative Media Production for the development of audiovisual content. “Extreme Environments” explores the ability of the project to adapt to extreme contexts – climate, social and technological – redefining the very concept of environment and generating new visions. “Extreme Environments” will welcome visitors in a perceptive experience: sculptural totems in aluminum plate dialogue with video content on LED, creating contrasts between natural and artificial, lightness and solidity, reflection and distortion. Metal surfaces become devices capable of amplifying the relationship between space, matter and individual. “To participate in the Milan Design Week 2026, in the context of MoscowPartners Variations at Palazzo Litta, means for NABA to reiterate the value of the project as an instrument of vision and responsibility. With “Extreme Environments” we investigate complex scenarios, where the environment is a climate, social, cultural and technological dimension – says Claudio Larcher, NABA Design Area Leader – Our learning approach by making shape designers able to confront reality and transform its limits into possibilities. Being protagonists of the main international appointment of design means actively participating in the construction of the debate on the future, with critical awareness and ability to innovation.” At Milan Design Week 2026, NABA will also be present with other projects. From 20 to 26 April he is a partner of Archiproducts Milano who presents his new Interior Design project for Milan Design Week 2026: Fòco. Living notes by Studiopepe. Biennio Specialistico in Creative Media Production students will interpret Fòco’s new concept in Showroom Archiproducts Milano in via Tortona, 31: video and sound give life to an immersive experience in the Listening Room where the natural element is read as a transformative force and moving. During the Milan Design Week, the project will be enriched by interactive audiovisual performances and will be open throughout 2026. For the 20th anniversary of Studioart Leather Interiors, the students of the Bienni Specialisti of the Design Area reinterpret the product Leatherwall with innovative and sustainable patterns, also through the recovery of profiles. On display from 20 to 26 April in via Solferino 37, fifteen projects and the winning prototype. At the FREITAG Store Milano (Viale Pasubio, 8), from 20 to 26 April, with NABA x FREITAG: THE MESSENGER IS ON THE TABLE, on display design reinterpretations of the messenger upcycled bag F11 LASSIE, realized by students of Aree Design and Fashion Design, with an exhibition realized by students of the Biennio Specialistico in Interior Design of NABA. On April 23rd there will be an evening open to the public with talk with professors of the Academy and a Holistic Product Designer by FREITAG and aperitif. Finally, on April 23, students of the Design Area participate in an event with Fessura, personalising live the sneaker model of Karim Rashid in the flagship store of Corso di Porta Ticinese, 22.
– Photo: NABA, New Academy of Fine Arts, Extreme Environments, Ascending Vibrations, Andrea Angileri, Zeynep Baki, Francesco Breglia, NABA Design Area students –(ITALPRESS).
