How did the presentation of Visions from the Future at the IED Kunsthall Bilbao go? Students from IED Milan presented their project in collaboration with Triennale Milano in the Spanish city
There are moments in students’ lives that profoundly change the stylistic trajectory of their careers. Encounters with different cultures, a project of a certain scale, working with peers outside one’s own bubble. These were precisely the variables that contributed to the success of the opening of Visioni dal Futuro, the new audiovisual installation by students from the Sound Design and Graphic Design courses at IED Milan, held last February 19 at the IED Kunsthall in Bilbao.
The starting point of the project is a broad and valuable portion of Italy’s design heritage: the graphic and communication materials preserved in the archives of Triennale Milano, specifically the posters from the twenty-four International Exhibitions held between 1923 and 2025. The installation takes shape as a chronological audiovisual flow in which each poster breaks down into graphic elements, animates, and transforms into the next, creating a moving narrative of Italy’s graphic and cultural heritage.
The event took shape through the opening performance by students Rocco Amati and Maria Chiara Delli Santi who, in the school’s Agora, deconstructed and recomposed the exhibition’s sounds and images, creating a true multimedia set. Moving between industrial soundscapes and static, choral, and modular elaborations of the original graphic elements, the performance also incorporated works by students Francesco Eugenio Pellegrino, Hamza Soummade, Jacopo Macrelli, Paolo Ferrari, Alessia Calianno, Giada Salvo, Silvia Agostoni, Caterina Deodato, Martina Crippa, Alessia Formis, and Noemi Sofio. The installation thus offers a glimpse from the future, that of younger generations of creatives, onto a past that shaped the history of graphic design, filtered through the sensitivity and perspective of those who may one day work on future editions of the Triennale Milano.
@nssmagazine We traveled to Bilbao with IED for “Visioni dal Futuro”, a century of posters from the Triennale Archive, animated and reinterpreted by young graphic designers and sound designers. Take a look! @Istituto Europeo di Design #ied #bilbao #graphicdesign #triennale Sunset in Calabasas - Adrian
IED Milan’s installation for Triennale is part of the initiatives within the Sounding Images, Screening Sounds project, funded by the European Union (PNRR, Next Generation EU). The project aims to innovate the international dimension of the AFAM system by proposing a redefinition of the traditional relationship between sound and image. More specifically, IED is working on enhancing Italy’s cultural and artistic heritage through archives, as well as developing installation-based projects intended for international contexts. After Bilbao, the exhibition will arrive on March 1 in Lecce, with a performance at the Conservatorio Tito Schipa.
