This year's Camp offered free accommodation, and the public program Designing Togetherness focused on being and doing together
The Second Edition of The Glitch Camp comes to an end
Date
15 April 2025
The Glitch Camp - IED's free urban camp, designed for students from all over the world during the Milan Design Week - closed its doors after a successful second edition.
A total of 400 glitchers stayed at April at the “Enrico Cappelli” Sports Centre, owned by Milanosport SSD S.p.A. from 7 to 13: 65% are international students, with 45 different nationalities. They travelled from Latvia, Lithuania, Spain, Israel, Georgia, France, Portugal and Germany, as well as coming from the different sites of IED around Italy, Spain and Brazil.
The Glitch Camp wasn’t only an occasion for the international student community to connect but also a networking opportunity among the cultural actors of the Fuorisalone. In fact, thanks to the cultural partnership with BASE, The Glitch Camp also welcomed 20 young designers on the terrace of the Cultural Centre in Via Tortona by Parasite 2.0.
The Glitch Camp also met the goal of guaranteeing accommodation with a reduced environmental impact and the circularity of utilised products. The 2025 edition was also made possible with the support of Piano B, an agency actively committed to reducing the environmental impact of events through the development of new creativity and sustainable production. Once The Glitch Camp closed, IKEA products were donated to the NPO Fondazione Opera Cardinal Ferrari, which provides services to help people who are seriously marginalised.
“With the second edition of The Glitch Camp, IED underlined the importance of Design as a tool at the service of the common good – says Riccardo Balbo, Chief Academic Officer IED Group. Our students and faculty from the DesignXCommons courses have developed Design Togetherness, a programme of activities and meditations on the relationship between the individual, society and space. The camp and the public programme, also open to the city, were some of the ideas IED DesignXCommons and the Francesco Morelli Foundation proposed for Milan Design Week. These initiatives made it possible to welcome young designers during MDW, reduced distances with the world by making it accessible, as well as combated isolation through real contact with other students from all over the world. This is the task of the School, to create connections.”
Following a proposal by the Francesco Morelli Foundation, which was founded to promote design as a lever of social growth and which is owner of the IED Group, the Designing Togetherness programme was created by the School of Masters of Arts at IED Milano, which guided students through a reflection on the quality and timing of spontaneous interactions through workshops, talks and convivial activities.
The programme reflected on how to design relationships and new exchanges in order to envisage a future built on being and doing together, including social and recreational aspects as a fundamental part, reinforcing the current social and relational need for well-being.
Added to this is the design of the Fregüj fanzine designed by the MA in Visual Communication students, which was handed out to the campers daily, sharing insights, MDW events, and activities, fostering community and promoting design culture.
Fregüj - which in the Milanese dialect means “crumbs” - is the name chosen to highlight the relationship with bread, the primary object around which a collective sense of coexistence can be built and a transversal symbol of inclusiveness, sharing, and global culture. In addition, every morning, the bread artisan Yan de Guardia from In Levain We Trust, a member of Madre Project by Terzo Paesaggio, prepared different types of bread for breakfast as a symbol of communion and community.
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Supported by: Francesco Morelli Foundation
Main sponsor: IKEA Italy
Premium partner: Bosch
The Glitch Camp is powered by Ferrino
Production partner: Piano B
Media partner: Fuorisalone.it
Cultural partner: BASE Milan
Sponsors: Ferrarini, Eroica
Thanks to: Target Color, Uniqlo, Wami
A total of 60 tents were installed in the soccer field
Yan de Guardia from In Levain we Trust
Students reading the daily fanzine Fregüj
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