Giro Giro Tondo, Triennale, Milano, 2017

Every year Triennale Design Museum tells the story of Italian design through a system of representations that change themes, scientific systems and displays to try to answer the primary question "What is Italian Design?", offering new points of view and paths on the discipline.
Giro Giro Tondo. Design for Children presents a new history of Italian design dedicated to the world of childhood and children, to the design and architecture that worked for them, to the games and images that entertained and told them, to the spaces in which they lived moved, to the objects they manipulated.
The itinerary is structured into thematic sections: the history of furniture, curated by Paola Maino; the history of toys, edited by Luca Fois; the history of urban installations, performative interventions and architecture, edited by Fulvio Irace; the history of graphics, illustration and publishing, edited by Pietro Corraini; the history of animation, edited by Maurizio Nichetti, and the history of writing and drawing tools, edited by Francesca Balena Arista. These sections are interspersed with focuses dedicated to prominent and important figures in the history of design in relation to education, such as Bruno Munari, edited by Alberto Munari, and Riccardo Dalisi, edited by Francesca Picchi, or to the history of pedagogy, edited by Franca Zuccoli and Monica Guerra, or to the iconic nature of storytelling, such as Pinocchio, edited by Enrico Ercole.
The installation has a strong figurative component, with a pop soul, and is punctuated by stations where young visitors can interact, play and learn.