Singapore, 7 April 2026 — As part of the tenth edition of Italian Design Day in the World, a seminar was held at the Embassy of Italy in Singapore dedicated to the role of design in contemporary art.
The event featured Italian architects and designers Laura Miotto and Savina Nicolini, both based in Singapore. Their professional careers are marked by extensive experience in exhibition design and the creation of exhibition spaces, as evidenced by the Singapore President’s Design Award conferred in 2010 on Laura Miotto for the exhibition Quest for Immortality: The World of Ancient Egypt, and by Savina Nicolini’s international projects, including Ren-I-Tang in Penang — presented at the Venice Biennale in 2011 — and Anguilla Park, awarded in 2015 at the I-DEA Asia Pacific Awards.
During the seminar, the exhibition design project After Rain, developed for the Diriyah Contemporary Art Biennale 2024 in Saudi Arabia, was presented. The project transformed an existing industrial complex into a cultural space of over 13,000 square metres, hosting more than one hundred artists and welcoming an international audience.
The initiative is aligned with the theme of the 2026 edition — “RE-DESIGN. Regenerating spaces, objects, ideas, relationships” — which invites us to interpret design as a tool capable of generating new perspectives and promoting sustainable and integrated approaches. In this context, Italian design confirms its role as a key reference point and a privileged platform for dialogue between Italy and Singapore, strengthening its ability to combine innovation, quality, and attention to environmental and social aspects within a broader framework of relations across cultures, disciplines, and communities.
