"Crafting Tomorrow" arrives in Venice The pop-up store curated by Sara Sozzani Maino and Federico Poletti
From March 6 to 16, the Hotel Nani Mocenigo Palace in Venice will host CRAFTING TOMORROW, a pop-up store dedicated to future visions focused on social responsibility, awareness, and new forms of impact through creativity and design.
The project, curated by Sara Sozzani Maino, creative director of the Sozzani Foundation, and Federico Poletti, editorial director of Next Gen Magazine, is conceived as much more than a simple exhibition: a design pathway that transforms reflection into action, inviting communities to actively participate in building a more conscious, inclusive, and responsible world.
CRAFTING TOMORROW is configured as a living and participatory space, where creativity and responsibility intertwine, generating new perspectives. In this context, design becomes a language of awareness and a tool capable of activating dialogue and community, within a project that takes shape in Venice.
“Venice is a city made of history and traditions that deserve to be valued. With Crafting Tomorrow, the Nani Mocenigo Palace opens its doors to a dialogue between art, design, and contemporary craftsmanship, transforming the palace into a creative laboratory where heritage and innovation coexist. We support responsible supply chains and collaborate with projects that tell the story of the city and its traditions, with the aim of strengthening Venice’s role as a cultural laboratory in continuous evolution, open to the creativity of new generations,” states Paolo Caffi, CEO of Nani Mocenigo Palace.
The protagonists of the project are different realities united by an ethical and contemporary approach to creative making: Cavia by Martina Boero, which transforms vintage garments and textile excess into unique pieces through circular fashion practices; Marcello Pipitone, who explores the relationship between fashion and sport, treating clothing as a second skin capable of narrating identity, time, and function; Maker Mile, the project by Ilaria Marcatelli that brings together designers and Venetian master artisans, including bead workers, glassmakers, goldsmiths, and lacemakers, to revitalize traditional knowledge; and PECORANERA, a collective that promotes a collaborative model based on cultural belonging, social awareness, and the valorization of its origins.
CRAFTING TOMORROW develops with a program of meetings and moments of discussion dedicated to the dialogue between design, craftsmanship, and social responsibility, with the participation of designers from Cavia, Marcello Pipitone, and Pecoranera, followed by performances and insights into Venetian craftsmanship, the relationship between lace and fashion, and the practices of the master artisans of Maker Mile. Curated by Sara Sozzani Maino and Federico Poletti, the project represents a vision that intertwines creativity, community, and traditional knowledge, imagining design as a tool for shared responsibility.
