“Arredo per vacche e amici” Art and Design exhibition for the animal welfare

In the ancient urban-rural Valle dei Monaci, situated in Parco Agricolo Sud, design, art and tecnique talk to the surrounding environment. 
The main topic concerns the animal welfare with a particular emphasis on cattle and stalls. The purpose is to talk about an everyday and familiar issue with an alternative communication: art and design. 

Locations and program: 
- “Stalls: yesterday today … tomorrow?” collage exhibit:  entering from Milan Nosedo Water Treatment Plant’s executive building. Opening hours – from Tuesday 9 April to Friday 12 April 15:00-18:00 / Saturday 13 April 10:00-12:00 
 
The exhibition shows AmmA’s artists and designers’ response to stall’s architecture and farm equipment changes over time, trying to define how it affected the animal welfare. Artists involved: Clara Bartolini, Vito Giacummo, Daniela Gorla, Eugenia Scaglioni, StudioPace10, topylabrys, Ada Eva Verbena, Rosanna Veronesi, etc… 
 
- Seminar – in collaboration with ADI (Associazione per il Design Industriale): Farm Animals welfare Milan Nosedo Conference room, Thursday 11 April, 2019 – h: 10:00-12:30 
 
The meeting involves different figures, such as designers, architects, artists, professors, geologists, farmers, anthropologists, growers and veterinarians. An important opportunity to discuss about a topical issue which is strictly linked to human well-being. During this seminar pictures and design proposals will be submitted, for  example: feeders, fans, beds, brushes, cleaning items for stalls and new high technological material for innovative design, such as anti-bacterial ceramics  for birthing and milking rooms. After the meeting, “Stalls: yesterday today… tomorrow?” exhibition will be open. 
 
- Design Contest Opening in collaboration and with the patronage of ADI (Associazione Disegno Industriale): Milan Nosedo Conference room, Thursday 11 April, 2019 – h: 14:30-17:30 
 
Launch of the Call “Décor and decorations for animal welfare with projects and prototypes” for the Design Week that will take place in 2020. 
- Performance “Artists in a cage”: On the lawn in front of Nosedo’s executive building, Thursday 11 April, in the afternoon 
 The aim is to consider the animal condition through the parallelism artist – animal. 
 
- Final exhibition – Photo Lab for Kids “The Animal House… in the future”: Nocetum, date and time to be determined 
 
Organised by Studio Pace10 and Spazio Farini6. It represents the kids’ vision and summarises their photography experiments in the darkroom. Photoprints with old techniques. 
 
- Tour of MAF Art Yard – (MAF - Museo Acqua Franca, art collection in Nosedo Water Treatment Plant): Thursday 11 April throughout the day / Saturday 13 - h: 10:30 
 
More info:  Some of the farms situated in Parco Agricolo Sud will be accessible to the public – time to be defined. 
 
Requested patronages: Comune di Milano e del Ministero delle politiche agricole alimentari, forestali e del turismo, dell’Assessorato all’Agricoltura della Regione Lombardia. 
 
This program is currently being updated.