Change the perspective, and the world follows. With this quiet yet powerful premise, Design per Tutti returns in May with a new edition of its free talks—an annual cultural series that sparks open, cross-disciplinary reflections on contemporary design. Once again, LevelHUB, the ground-floor event space at Level Office Landscape’s headquarters in La Valletta Brianza, will host four evenings open to professionals, design lovers and students. The focus for 2025? “From Above, It’s a Whole New World”.
Design per Tutti 2025: A Shift in Perspective
This year’s theme explores a raised vantage point—inviting guests to view cities, spaces, and landscapes from a higher angle. It’s a visual and mental shift that urges to break from routine and awaken new design awareness. Over the course of four events, guest speakers from architecture, communication, art, philosophy, geography and design will guide the audience through a visionary, skyward journey—one that dares to push beyond the familiar. In this context, “height” becomes a poetic, technical, and symbolic lens—offering new ways of thinking about place, and new ways of inhabiting it.
May 7: Icarus Beyond the Clouds
The first evening, on May 7, is titled “Icarus Beyond the Clouds. Realms of imagination and new ways of living.” It features Lorenzo Redaelli, philosopher and teacher, and Penelope Vaglini, writer and curator. Redaelli, who studied philosophy at Università Statale di Milano, teaches in secondary schools and focuses on critical and contemporary thought, especially the Frankfurt School. Vaglini works across design and communication, bringing an interdisciplinary vision that bridges aesthetics and project culture. Together, they will explore the theme through literature, mythology and design: from Ariosto’s Astolfo on the Moon to Jules Verne and Italo Calvino, all the way to visionary dining experiences suspended in the sky—Dinner in the Sky, treehouse hotel suites, and the soaring rooftops of the world’s most iconic cities.
May 14: Exploring the Sky
The second event, on May 14, is “Exploring the Sky.” Speakers are Massimo Gianquitto, architect, CEO of Level Office Landscape and founder of Design per Tutti, and Isabella Maggioni, art historian. Gianquitto, author of essays, novels, and manuals on art and colour, brings a rich background in visual culture. Maggioni teaches art history at the Medardo Rosso Art High School in Lecco, and has worked with galleries, cultural publications and curated research on contemporary artists. Their session will range from the floating architectures of Tomás Saraceno to Norman Foster’s visions of lunar habitation—bridging utopia and reality, where art meets architectural innovation.
May 21: Defying Gravity
On May 21, Design per Tutti 2025 presents “Defying Gravity. Aerial stories from architects in flight”, with Annalisa Bonsuan and Alfio Sironi. Bonsuan, a Venetian architect and licensed pilot, lives and works on the island of Mazzorbetto, where she transforms reclaimed materials from the lagoon into sustainable design pieces. Sironi is a geographer and educator, who collaborates with the University of Milan and co-organises the Festival delle Geografie. Bonsuan will share her lived experience of architecture seen from the air, followed by Sironi’s visual and quantitative reading of the Anthropocene—where aerial photography and data analysis reveal the profound impact of human activity on landscapes and ecosystems.
May 28: Suspended Pathways
The final talk, on May 28, is “Suspended Pathways. Rooftops and overpasses: the new urban frontier,” with Gérman Fuenmayor and Cornelius Gavril. Fuenmayor, a Venezuelan architect and co-founder of Piuarch, has led major urban projects including Milan’s Bicocca district, the Human Technopole Headquarters and the Riva del Garda Congress Centre. Gavril, both landscape designer and gardener, is president of Verdisegni and works with leading architecture studios on urban greening and regeneration projects. Together, they’ll advocate for a reimagining of rooftops, terraces, and elevated infrastructure—not as leftovers, but as noble surfaces, spaces where nature and the city can coexist and evolve.
Design per Tutti 2025, Rethinking the Future of Living
Through varied voices and evocative visions, Design per Tutti 2025 offers fertile ground for cultivating awareness and imagination. Because rooftops, green terraces and elevated walkways can expand the boundaries of public space. When planted and rewilded, these surfaces return what construction has taken—giving the landscape back its breath.
Each event is officially recognised by the Ordine degli Architetti di Monza e Brianza and awards continuing education credits. But most of all, each evening is an invitation to rise above, reflect, and reimagine. Because from above, it’s a whole new world.