The spaces of the MEET Digital Culture Centre, the International Centre for Art and Digital Culture, from Friday 29th November until Sunday 15th December host the exhibition “Drawing the Action. Papers by Ico Migliore, on movement, time, and sensations within architectural spaces”, as a collateral event of the 4th edition of Milano Drawing Week.
The selection of drawings by Ico Migliore – co-founder together with Mara Servetto of the Milanese design studio Migliore+Servetto – includes 16 drawings from the Red Light Architecture collection alongside 16 sketchbooks that convey the importance of drawing on paper in the design process.
The works show what is not normally found in architectural drawings – the movement of people, their sensory perceptions and their interactions within the space – accompanying the public on an immersive journey that recounts the evolution of design thinking, transforming intuition and matter into a concrete work.
The proposed selection offers an immersion in Ico Migliore’s most intimate creativity, where light is not simply design material, but a perceptive medium that connects real and represented space.
The result is the crystallisation of a timeless moment in which architecture emerges powerfully, transfigured by a red filter through which light digs, like a blade, to define volumes and paths. In this perspective, the red colour of these drawings is a generating element of the architect’s poetics, evoking key concepts such as warmth, energy, attraction and dynamism.
“But what is the role of drawing in design today?” – asks Ico Migliore – “In a contemporary context, the versatility with which a drawing is translated into digital forms is crucial to connect the creative process to modern production tools. These drawings will be transfigured digitally, showing how they developed and gave life to the real project. Without paper, however, one would lose the reasoning with oneself, the authenticity of the stroke that turns out to be an idea turned into form”.
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