Marco Sammicheli (IT)

Exhibition Makers

July 9th – July 15th 2023

The Workshop

The phases towards the realization of an exhibition can follow various paths and methods. However, some of them are recurrent and fundamental. Among the most important steps, we should mention the research, the fact-checking of resources, the drafting of the concept, the necessity of adding hypothesis and knowledge to the addressed subject, and the setting of a visual representation that allows the understanding of the overarching theme.

Our workshop is dedicated to the construction of a hypothetical exhibition through all these milestones and aims to realize a text and a small handmade publication that includes all our steps of the conceptual process. Participants will have to bring to the workshop three reference publications that have determined their lives. Our small joint library shall then determine our disciplinary orientation and a maximum of three curatorial paths. In the following step, Boisbuchet’s library and archive, its collection and its practice where material culture, architecture and landscape design and agriculture are interconnected, will become our place of verification, implementation and sourcing of contents.

Making use of mind maps, digital presentations and debates, we are going to produce a concept, write a critical accompanying text, establish a hypothetical list of objects, works and documents to put on display. Finally, you will be called to identify a network of partners for our exhibition’s production.

The course is assisted by Maria Walter Nielsen, teacher and graphic designer, who will support step by step the participants in the realization of the booklet of presentation of the research, introducing techniques of collage, illustration, drawing and photography.

Workshop Categories

Marco Sammicheli (Fano, 1979) is Curator of Design, Fashion, Crafts sector at Triennale Milano and Superintendent of Museo del Design Italiano. Since 2018 he’s been working as International Relations Chief Officer at Triennale Milano, where he’s supervising the International Exhibition program in collaboration with the Bureau International des Expositions (BIE) and the Italian Minister of Foreign Affairs. On the occasion of the 23rd International Exhibition he curated for the Italian pavilion the exhibition La tradizione del nuovo – A tradition of the new. 

He has curated exhibitions in Italy, Switzerland, Denmark, and published essays in catalogs for cultural institutions, museums and private galleries in Europe and in the Middle East, with a particular focus on designers such as Zaha Hadid, Mario Bellini, Steven Holl, Bruno Munari, Carlo Mollino, Jaime Hayon. During the Salone Internazionale del Mobile he curated The Design City. Milano Città laboratorio, published by Forma Edizioni in 2018. Columnist for “Wallpaper*” and for “Il Sole 24 Ore”, he has contributed to several international magazines. 

After graduating in Communication Science from the University of Siena and specializing in History of Design at the Bauhaus Universität in Weimar, in 2009 Marco earned a Doctorate in Design and Technology for the Development of Cultural Heritage at Politecnico di Milano and Pontificia Universidad Catòlica de Chile.

Housing

  • Accommodation & food are included

  • We can accommodate for special catering

  • All participants sleep in dormitories

  • To book a private room or bring additional guests, get in touch: workshops@boisbuchet.org

Education

  • Our staff are available to help you conceptualize & produce your designs

  • Tools & materials are provided by Boisbuchet

  • All workshops are taught in English

  • The number of participants is limited to 22

Activities