Turin has always been an important industrial pole due to the numerous research centres, mechianical industries, prototype laboratories, style and model centres.
This fact combined with the 2006 Olympic Winter Games have lauched Turin in the international scene again, acquiring a new, ascendent position. Thus, in 2005, the International Council of Societies of Industrial Design (ICSID), named Turin as the first World Design Capital in recognition to the important role layed by the city and by the region in recent years.
The entire city area is today involved in the process of re-building Turin’s image changing it from just an industrial city to a real European city, in which development is based on a combination of innovation and creativity, starting with a solid tradition of entrepreneuship and planning.
Flexibility is the leitmotiv of this huge event and the matrix of the project. A contemporary city must me able to change and to remodel itself continuously using design, planning research and innovation as tools for economic, social and cultural development.
During this 2008, Turin has organized a multiple range of events, concerning design, innovation techonology, arts, architecture and much more. The years has been devided in four phases, each aimed at four specific target groups: citizens, businesses, the world of education and the institutions. Their attention will be focus on Public Design, Economy and Design, Education and Design, Design Policies.
The organization for this massive prject has planned the entire year in order to offer a wide program, to motivate citizens and foreign turists to discover the design’s world in a special location like Turin.
If you want to take part to some initiatives, lectures or exhibitions, you still have half year to go there and discover it!
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