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Green Design Days 2025: FederlegnoArredo’s multi-site festival
Island of San Servolo
On Thursday 22 May, the island of San Servolo in Venice will be hosting a rich program of workshops, talks, food and other cultural activities, as well as the green practices of design companies
From the state of industry to eco-friendly practices to circularity, with beneficial production processes and innovative materials, as well as the theme of measuring the contemporary changes and challenges that researchers, designers and new companies are facing in this historical period.
This and much more will be on the table at the Green Design Days 2025, the first project by FLA Plus, FederlegnoArredo's sustainability path, aimed at a broad public of professionals and others. Its purpose is to showcase the commitment of companies in the design industry to sustainability through its environmental, social, and economic aspects.
The new format makes its debut on Thursday 22 May in the fascinating setting of the Island of San Servolo, in the heart of the Venetian lagoon, between the historic center and the Lido. This extraordinary place is rich in history and charm: once an ancient Benedictine monastery and later a renowned psychiatric hospital, San Servolo is now a vital cultural center that hosts events, exhibitions, academic activities and important international institutions.
Green Design Days represents a piece of the FLA Plus path by which the Federation is promoting sustainability in a systemic way, through initiatives on several levels, involving experts, promoting good practices and stimulating reflections on the current challenges in the sector.
Isola di San Servolo
Green Design Days 2025: the program
10:00 / Workshop:
1. Lacuna: Angela Rui and Massimo Barbierato will accompany participants in a sensory exploration of the invisible forces of water, a reflection as ontological as it is material on rising sea levels and how proximity to these agents can lead to new methods of reconnection and cooperation with the environment. Photographic reportage by Giacomo Bianco. Register here.
2. Innovating products and production processes with additive manufacturing; promoted by Designtech with Rodrigo Brenner (Furf) and Simona Arena (Puntozero). Register here.
3. Transformative scales of the fragment:Dolomiti Contemporanee, Progettoborca, Stefano Collarin, Tommaso Russo, Lorenzo Barbasetti di Prun, Fabio Talloru, together with the students of the SID – Scuola Italiana Design di Padova. (limited number).
15:00 / Green Practice:
FederlegnoArredo’s member companies recount their best practices on sustainability issues through their experiences in design, production, development of materials and technologies, efficiency processes and methods of measurement, involving technicians, R&D departments, sustainability managers, designers and other experts. Among others Alessandro Stabile, Arper, Artemide, Fantoni, Giovanardi, Natuzzi, Zaven.
18:00 / Green Stories:
Talk - an open dialogue on the creative landscape: what are the design modes and tools with which emerging generations of designers and makers are navigating the contemporary context?
19:00 / Green Stories:
Aperitif curated by the Venetian designers The Tidal Garden, who explore the edible potential of halophyte plants growing in the brackish environment of the Venice lagoon, as a tool for cultural adaptation to climate change.
21:00 / Green Screen:
Free screening of the film Green Over Gray. Emilio Ambasz with the presence of the filmmakers.
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