Exhibitions Design in progress Add to bookmarks The innovation and excellence of the Audi Group is a sustainable statement of intent, in the name of the highest industrial manufacturing quality “Vorsprung durch Technik” – Progress through Technology: this is the motto of the car brand with the famous four rings, a commitment projected towards the future by bringing the values of technological quality and guaranteed performance along its way. At the Salone del Mobile.Milano, Audi offers a glimpse into the fascinating world of automotive production, surrounded by almost 2000 international exhibitors who represent excellence in the fields of design and furnishings, capable of boldly imagining the habitats for living tomorrow. The proposals of the exhibitors at the event embody the dream of shaping sophisticated interiors for homes, hotels and refined restaurants, and in the same way the German car manufacturer Audi has been imagining a future-proof world for more than a century, through unfailing research into innovation and technology. Audi has an advanced approach to issues such as environmental and economic sustainability, as well as flexibility and attractiveness. It aims to achieve net carbon neutrality at its production facilities by 2025. And with its “360 factory” production plan, it will ensure that all its facilities will be making at least one electric model by 2029. By 2027 the brand of the four rings expects to have an offering in each main segment of the zero-emission model range. This clear commitment to electromobility is the cornerstone of Audi’s sustainability strategy. Based on this, the brand invests in the whole value chain, takes responsibility for the environment and society and makes sustainable corporate governance a crucial component of all its decisions and products. These are all values in line with the policies that businesses running important European and international production companies are adopting with the maximum efficiency and competitiveness, as in the world of furnishings, represented by the excellences present at the Salone del Mobile.Milano. Combining technology and high manufacturing quality with important choices to guarantee increasingly sustainable supply and production methods is the most important key to maintaining continuous research in the fields of innovation, while offering products of the highest quality.
Exhibitions The latest outdoor furnishing, championing sustainability, material and colour Comfortable and sustainable, outdoor furnishing lends itself to many different interpretations, channelling innovation and constantly evolving aesthetics Marilena Pitino
Stories The biology of light, according to Manuel Spitschan What does chronobiology have to do with design? Manuel Spitschan, professor at the Technische Universität München, explains why light is essential to our well-being. And why designers should know more about it to design better. Giulia Zappa
Sustainability The Piazze Aperte scheme is really changing the face of Milan Since 2018, the two local governments helmed by Mayor Giuseppe Sala have closed more than fifty of the city’s streets and roads to traffic – but not to people. And this is just the beginning Fabrizio Fasanella
