TRIENNALE MILANO 15.10.2025
Tactile Visions marked the moment when the circle was complete.

After a year of working, listening to, and engaging in dialogue with blind and visually impaired individuals, we have rewritten the foundations of design, starting not from form, but from experience.

On 15 October at Triennale Milano, designers, architects, activists, scholars, blind and visually impaired people, members of the public and, above all, the AEDO collection came together for a vibrant and meaningful day.
What was the atmosphere like? Welcoming, fluid and genuine. It was made of hands reaching out in trust, voices narrating and people listening to each other. Gentle, spontaneous connections were made, even between strangers.

Blind guides from the Cavazza Institute led blindfolded visitors on an exploration of the AEDO sofa, using words, touch and trust. This reversed the usual roles, shifting perception from sight to feeling. Language replaced image. Experience became form.

The AEDO sofa is not just a piece of furniture, but a relational space. It is a place that welcomes, orients and contains. It is the result of a true synesthetic co-design process born from new questions:
How can beauty be experienced without seeing it?
Which materials speak to the sense of touch?
How can we design based on the body, senses and human desires?

A year of research turned into a story.
That story then became a project, a voice and an encounter.

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During the talk, which was moderated by Valentina Croci, there was a lively and authentic conversation between designers, architects and blind individuals about what it truly means to co-design.

The conversation brought together:
Debonademeo Studio and Valentina Bigiarini curators of the project, Marco Ferrigno (Istituto Cavazza), Aldo Grassini (Museo Omero), Daniele Cassioli, Fabio Fornasari, Cristian Catania (Lombardini22) and Bérénice Magistretti.

Topics discussed included design as experience, beauty as a right and the object as a spatial tool for orientation.
The dialogue placed the relationship between body and design at the centre, and renewed the call for inclusive educational paths that are accessible to all, including blind and visually impaired people.

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