Superstudio returns to Milan Design Week 2026 With a new Fuorisalone map

For its 26th edition, Superstudio, a key reference of the Fuorisalone, presents Superstudio Design 2026: a new “diffused map” that redefines the experience of Milan Design Week, moving beyond the traditional concept of a District to activate a constellation of urban itineraries. The 2026 edition brings together 70 projects, 91 brands, and 88 designers from 19 countries, confirming its global and multicultural dimension.

From April 20 to 26, 2026, 30,000 square meters distributed across Superstudio Più, Superstudio Maxi and the new Superstudio Village host a project articulated into three thematic paths, three areas of the city, and three complementary visions of contemporary design. A format that crosses Milan, from Tortona to Barona to Bovisa, triggering a dialogue between new urban hubs and building an extended narrative in which design and art intertwine.

In the iconic Via Tortona venue, SuperNova becomes the international core of the project: a space dedicated to large-scale installations, independent pavilions, and temporary architectures that transform the environment into an immersive laboratory between industry, culture, and vision.

Among the key moments of the 2026 edition is the return of Moooi in collaboration with Superstudio with “Moooi 25 and Promising”: a museum-like exhibition designed by Marcel Wanders and developed across nearly 1,000 sqm, marking the brand’s return to Milan twenty-five years after its debut at Superstudio. A “silver celebration” that reinterprets the icons of the brand through reflective surfaces, experimental approaches, and a narrative suspended between memory and future. Alongside Moooi, independent installations by international players such as Lexus, Samsung Electronics, and next125 activate a dialogue between technological innovation and material research.

Curated by Giulio Cappellini, SuperCity imagines a multicultural ideal city projected into the future, where architecture, design, art, and photography converge into a single visual system. Inside the main hall of Superstudio Maxi, an open scenographic landscape takes shape: brands and designers are staged in a space without physical divisions, where environments are not defined but suggested.

Domestic interiors and outdoor scenarios emerge as a three-dimensional comic strip, built through graphic signs and visual references that define identity while maintaining a fluid spatial continuity. SuperCity brings together 15 projects between collective exhibitions and individual presences, composing an urban map of contemporary design.

At the center is TheCity, the curatorial core of the project: a vision of an ideal city where calm and serenity become founding elements. Virtual homes, characterized by bespoke textiles developed by C&C Milano, take shape through the intervention of brands such as Artelinea, Boffi|DePadova, Cassina, Flaminia, Foppapedretti, Gebrüder Thonet Vienna, Icone Luce, Jaipur Rugs, Living Divani, Magis, Mario Luca Giusti, Moroso, Technogym, Zanotta, and Zoom Bags.

Everything dialogues with a theater designed by Abet Laminati, created with the Venezia collection by Giulio Cappellini, and with a pool that echoes its geometries and colors. A lounge area completes the project, designed as a space for connection, marked by the presence of the Ischia umbrella by Fim Umbrellas. TheCity thus becomes an ideal district reflecting on the future of living and the quality of shared spaces.

Among the new features of 2026 is the opening of the new Superstudio Village: a former industrial site regenerated and transformed into a venue for events, unique in Italy for its standards of sustainability and technology. SuperPlayground is the project dedicated to emerging creativity, experimentation, and social design, an open space where design research, visual languages, and new international sensibilities converge.

At its core, the immersive installation “Keep Your Bubble” by Slovak visual artist Lousy Auber: a soft architecture made from repurposed hot-air balloon fabrics that invites the public to enter the space and reflect on transformation, reuse, and the relationship between individual and collective dimension. Alongside the special projects, SuperPlayground presents 33 designers selected from over 200 applications from more than 30 countries through an international open call.

This plurality of approaches is reflected in the three themes and the three urban areas, outlining what today appears central to contemporary design: dialogue with international protagonists, curatorial research, and the enhancement of experimentation and new generations, in a return to the authentic and radical spirit that originally defined the Fuorisalone.