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	Standing activity Place: Laboratorio DAGAD Collecting data and census of the most important Italian design structures. While our critic census activity (started in 2002) continues, whose result is a selection of the most important contemporary Italian architects (more than 600 among professionals, studios and companies), we moved into our new headquarter located in "La Fabbrica del Vapore". Then we requested all the documentation and filed it into digital format with a brief description of the job that each office has done. We selected a limited number of images from each studio, in order to list the 500 most important projects of Italian architecture in the last five years. A unitary collection of architecture exhibitions, videos and publications. Our goal is two-fold. On one hand our research gives an overview of contemporary Italian architecture and on the other hand it is a useful tool of comparison with other countries.
	Standing activity Place: Laboratorio DAGAD Emeroteque Starting from September 2008 Laboratorio DAGAD will give to students, researchers and professionals the opportunity to read the most important architecture and design magazines: ABITARE, CASABELLA, DOMUS, L'ARCA, MODULO, OTTAGONO.
	Standing activity Place: Laboratorio DAGAD Modulo Magazine Modulo is a monthly magazine with solid information about problems concerning new construction and reuse (technology, materials, innovation, rules, specific IT, products). It's been the official DAGAD's official media since its establishment. DAGAD advises the publisher and his staff on the evaluation and selection of the contents of the magazine.
	Standing activity Place: Laboratorio DAGAD Breakfast at DAGAD After our relocation in the new area within the "La Fabbrica del Vapore" it will possible on Sundays for students, professionals and researchers to consult architecture magazines and documents. In addition famous professionals of this sector will be present for observations and analysis.
	Standing activity Place: Laboratorio DAGAD A bridge connecting Architecture and Psychology of Communication Laboratorio DAGAD has started an interesting dialogue with the Laboratory of Psychology of Communication of the "Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore" of Milan. In collaboration with the professor Maria Rita Ciceri, scientific director of the above mentioned laboratory, some thesis in General Psychology will be analysed exploring the architectonic language from a Psychology of Communication point of view. Meetings will be held to discuss and analyse the subjects.
	Standing activity Place: Laboratorio DAGAD Review on architecture Starting from the documentation and census activity of the most important Italian design projects, a small number of images of each study will be selected in order to list the 500 most important projects of Italian architecture in the last five years. A unitary collection of architecture exhibitions, videos and publications
	March 5th and 26th 2010 Place: Fabbrica del Vapore, Laboratorio DAGAD Practical task of architecture and psichology of communication. The collaboration between Laboratorio Dagad and the department of psichology of communication of the Università Cattolica of Milan continues. During this two meetings students of psichology are asked to reflect about public spaces (squares), private spaces (houses) and design (objects).
	March 8th 2010 Place: Laboratorio Dagad Women on construction sites This project proposes to analyse women’s conditions on construction sites. With the patronage of Milan’s municipality, it begun with a public round table on March 8 2010 at the Fabbrica del Vapore. This event even set the initial phase of a standing observatory on this topic that Laboratorio Dagad will lead through the next few years with the aim to start several initiatives in order to analyse and monitor the situation. Thanks to partnerships with organisations in this field that will be involved, data and opinions will be collected. The analysis of women’s conditions in other countries will complete the observatory’s work.
	September 18th-30th 2009 Luogo: Scuderie Estensi, Piazza Garibaldi, Tivoli (Roma) UMUL A TIVOLI The exhibition UMUL, USE MORE USE LESS goes on tour. The second appointment will be in Tivoli at the "Scuderie Estensi, Piazza Garibaldi.
	July 9th-12th 2009 Place: Adrian's temple, Piazza di Pietra in Rome JO JO LIGHTS UP MICHELANGELO PISTOLETTO ECODOM, Consorzio Italiano di Recupero e Riciclo degli Elettrodomestici, is presenting for the first time at the AltaRomAltaModa exhibition Michelangelo Pistoletto's work “I Temp(l)i cambiano”, one of the most important international representative of Arte Povera commissioned by Ecodom. Ecodom and AltaRoma selected as partner for this initiative, which is aimed to the environment and its safeguard, JO JO lights. They were designed within the UMUL initiative, the standing workshop on design reuse promoted by LAboratorio DAGAD.
	June 18th 2009 Place: Fabbrica del Vapore, Laboratorio DAGAD Il futuro dell'ospitalità: FORUM SUITE Laboratorio DAGAD hosted a FORUM, organised by SUITE, questioning the future of the hotel sector. The debate took place among a selected group of experts and brilliant testimonials of reference in each area of the hospitality. Anybody had the chance to watch the event because the FORUM was broadcasted live on SUITE's web tv.
	April 22nd-27th 2009 Place: Fabbrica del Vapore, Spazio del comune Posti di vista 09: UMUL, USE MORE - USE LESS On the occasion of the Fuori Salone 2009 Laboratorio DAGAD supported by ANAB (National Association of Bio-ecological Architecture), presents the second appointment of the UMUL project (Use More, Use Less) a standing workshop on reuse in design, launched during the Salone del Mobile 2008. This exhibition represented one in 18 events, visited by over 10,000 people, at La Fabbrica del Vapore in Milan from April 22th to 27th. Laboratorio DAGAD proposed a revaluation of the reuse in the design field. It is aimed to leave behind the connotation of poor quality, which reusing had because of a handcraft approach. With the patronage of companies, leader in this sector (LAMM, LIUNI, SEVES, TREND, UNIVERSAL SELECTA, ZONCA), young designers and architects worked on innovative projects of reuse , characterised by quality and skill usually expressed in the "hand-list" production of companies. Laboratorio DAGAD presented the prototypes of projects that had been created during the workshop. At the same time, an exhibition showed the state of art of reusing at international level through examples of high formal, aesthetic and functional quality.
	March 13th-15th 2009 Place: FieraMilanoCity 10X10 A FA' LA CASA GIUSTA! 09 On the occasion of "Fa’ la cosa giusta! 2009 – VI" (do the right thing!) a critical consumption and environmental-friendly lifestyles fair, Terre di mezzo - Eventi with Best Up present the second edition of this touring exhibition. All sorts of positive solutions and products for a sustainable home living will be displayed. Inside the exhibition area you will also find, on a reduced scale, the project 10x10, ten Italian design masterpieces analysed from an environmental point of view, promoted by Laboratorio DAGAD in collaboration with ANAB. The project 10x10 started in 2007 as part of the event Posti di Vista 07, Fabbrica del Vapore.
	February 23rd- 25th 2009 Place: Fabbrica del Vapore, Laboratorio DAGAD Workshop di progettazione su un'area ex industriale di Milano At Laboratorio DAGAD, with the participation of "Politecnico di Milano", a planning project concerning a former industrial area in Milan was carried out in collaboration with students of Architecture.
	November 6th-8th2008 Place: Lido di Venezia, Hotel Excelsior CONSTRUCTA convention Paolo Righetti, president of the Laboratorio Dagad, chairman of the workshop "The urban regeneration: a unit process, which is sustainable from the licensing process to the facility management". Also present Giovanni Verga (Alderman of the Council House of Milan) , Rita Finzi (CCC-ACAM) and Giuseppe Menzi (AD Banca Antonveneta MPS).
	14 novembre e 10 dicembre 2008 Luogo: Fabbrica del Vapore, Laboratorio DAGAD Architecture and Psychology of Communication Laboratorio DAGAD will carry out, on November 14th and December 10th, two practical tasks with a group of students from Prof. Maria Rita Ciceri's course in Psychology of Communication and Language, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore in Milan. In collaboration with Marco Montagna and Diego Quadrelli. Details
	October 25th 2008 Place: VENEZIA, Biennale Visit to the11th international workshop of architecture Since its establishment on the occasion of the exhibitions at the Biennale, DAGAD has been organising a whole day of study and in-depth analysis through a visit with a curator of the event, critic comment and debate about themes of the exhibition, analysis and valuation of its structure and curatorship.
	October 24th 2008 Place: Padova, UNIFLAIR's headquarter A day at UNIFLAIR UNIFLAIR offered a day of work and detailed technical information in its headquarter in Conselve (Pd), along with a dinner and an overnight stay in Montegrotto Terme. UNIFLAIR, founded in 1988, is specialised in planning, producing and trading raised floors, precision air conditioners and refrigeration systems. The day consisted in the presentation of the company, its programme and goals, its products and a visit to the plant designed by Mario Cucinella.
	October 11th-12th 2008 Place: Fair of Vicenza -Palladio Room Participation at the “ECO DESIGN IN BUILDING” convention As vice-president of Laboratorio DAGAD architect Beatrice Spirandelli took part in the convention ECO DESIGN IN BUILDING. ECOLOGIC VISION IN BUILDING FOR A SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT, organised by the Giacomo Rumur Foundation, Centro Produttività Veneto, in Vicenza. Her contribution "ELEMENTS OF ECOLOGICAL VALUATION OF THE OBJECTS IN DESIGN" referred to the project 10x10, exhibition promoted by DAGAD for the event Posti di Vista 07.
	September 2008 Place: Laboratorio DAGAD Press Survey Laboratorio DAGAD started an experimental press project dedicated to all its members and collaborators. The service consists in sending via e-mail a selection of articles about architecture, design and other related topics which will be daily provided by newspapers (Corriere della Sera, La Repubblica, Stampa e Il Sole-24Ore).
	September 12th 2008 Place: Laboratorio DAGAD DORMA EVENING Laboratorio DAGAD organised for DORMA an entertaining event in which participated the company's commercial agents. The evening, with buffet service, was enliven by musicians and dancers from the association MASCHERE NERE ( BLACK MASKS).
	May 6th 2008 Place: Laboratorio DAGAD DATACENTER LINK - UNIFLAIR DAGAD hosted a seminar addressed to Officer IT, Facility Managers, System Integrators, Studies and all IT professionals about the updates in new technologies and their application on the data centre structures . Partners of the event: ABB, ALLUSER INDUSTRIE, SOCOMEC, UNIFLAIR.
	April 16th-21th 2008 Place: Laboratorio DAGAD Posti di vista 08: USE MORE - USE LESS, PIU' USI - MENO USI A project, with ANAB, National Association of Bio-ecological Architecture, on the reuse theme aimed to underline the higher environmental value of reusing instead of that of recycling and reinterpret the trilogy which lies on the basis of eco-design: re-use, re-think e re-valuate. Its purpose is to have as a result a product with the same level of quality, functionality and aesthetics as the original object. The project consists of two stages. First, several objects from all over the world already designed according to the former criteria will be presented. Second, a workshop will be developed for one year with the collaboration of companies and designers. The Salone 2009 showed the result with an exhibition of the prototypes created according to the project's criteria.
	April 20th-23rd 2007 Place: Laboratorio DAGAD Posti di vista 07: 10X10 Ten masterpieces of the Italian modern design were analysed according to sustainability principles. With the collaboration of ANAB, the Italian Association of Bioecological Architecture, Laboratorio DAGAD specifically created a ten-point valuation criteria in order to evaluate these important design objects in relation to their sustainability. Characteristics such as durability, lightness, ease of being disassembled and energy consumption for its production are interesting to see how these objects, mostly designed when sustainability wasn't yet crucial for design, deal with a theme which could set their success. In some cases we discovered that the good old design of fifty years ago was more sustainable than today's. .
	April 5th-10th 2006 Place: Laboratorio DAGAD Posti di vista 06: DAGAD PAVILION On occasion of the Salone del Mobile 2006, Laboratorio DAGAD opened a pavilion for exhibitions, workshops, conferences and other cultural activities mostly related to architecture and design. The pavilion is based on the concept and coordination of Mauricio Cardenas and Paolo Righetti, with the collaboration Maurizio Tetora of Arup Italia for all the materials. The pavilion is made of bamboo, steel and a transparent cover. Its innovative and modern connotation is represented with the use of different materials and with an experimental approach.
	2006 Place: Biennale of Venice Biennale of Venice DAGAD organised a whole day of study and in-depth analysis trough a visit with a curator of the event, critic comment and debate about themes resulted from the exhibition, analysis and valuation of its structure and curatorship.
	From September 2004 to January 2006 Place: Laboratorio DAGAD Start up for young architects: the experience of Mauricio Cardenas Laboratorio DAGAD is hosting for a period of two years young architects who distinguished themselves for the quality of their work and research activity. Mauricio Cardenas was the first young architect participating. In this period (from September 2004 to January 2006), along with other projects, Cardenas created a pavilion covered with dry fixed bamboo and steel on 300 square metres of garden at "La fabbrica del vapore". The construction was opened on occasion of the Salone del Mobile 2006.
	2005 Place: Laboratorio DAGAD Start up for young architects: the experience of Filippo Taidelli and Stefano Tagliacarne Once the Mauricio Cardenas' experience ended, Laboratorio Dagad hosted for a brief period the activity which Cardenas developed together with Filippo Taidelli and Stefano Tagliacarne. The project of a guest quarter for a big football club was displayed at the "La Fabbrica del Vapore" and in other temporary places.
	October 10th-17th 2005 Place: Politecnico of Milan International workshop of architectural and environmental design in Bellagio Promoted by the Prof. Ado Franchini of the DIAP/Politecnico of Milan, the activity aimed to stimulate researches, creations and discussions about renovation and valorisation of Bellaggio's lake and port area. This event, which occurs every year, will face through time different themes related to the Larian triangle. The activities of this first laboratory involved more than 50 students and professors from seven European and American universities: the Politecnico of Milan, The University of Bochum, the Politecnico of Magdeburg, the Politecnico di Varsavia, the Tech University of Riga, the Polytechnic State University of Atlanta in Georgia
	From September to November 2005 Place: Foundation of the Architects' Association of Milan Cycle of conferences in English: “Evenings of Architecture” Laboratorio DAGAD, in collaboration with the Foundation of the Architects' Association of Milan, organised a series of conferences in English. The three meetings were: “Installation and structures” (speaker Maurizio Teora OVE ARUP), “Compatible design” (speaker Nicola Araldi of ARUP), “ Working Habitats, Valuable Spaces” (speaker Iain MacDonald DEGW).
	Ottober 23rd 2004 Place: Biennale of Venice Biennale of Venice DAGAD organised a whole day of study and in-depth analysis trough a visit with a curator of the event, critic comment and debate about themes resulted from the exhibition, analysis and valuation of its structure and curatorship. .
	November 19th-21st 2004 Place:London Visit to London's architectures and museums Three days in the English capital, of visits, debates and analysis with the designers and speakers well up on the subject of English architecture. There were among the analysed architectures the area of the South Bank, the Tate Modern, the Millennium Bridge, the new Council House, the architectures of the City, the skyscraper of Foster for Swiss R.E. and some renovations in the Doks' area.
	October 2004 Place: Foundation of the Architects' Association of Milan Cycle of conferences in English: “Architectural lectures” Laboratorio DAGAD, in collaboration with the Foundation of the Architects' association of Milan, organized a series of conferences in English to explain some of the more intensive and important moments of the union between the Italian and foreign architectural tradition. The three meetings were: “Recent works of OVE Arup in Italy” , “The area of the old Station of Porta Vittoria in Milan , “The Garibaldi and Repubblica area in Milan” .
	Fom March 8th to July 26th 2004 Place: Foundation of the Architects' Association of Milan Course/Laboratory use of the English language in the professional service Laboratorio DAGAD, in collaboration with the Order and the Foundation of the Architects, planners, designers and conservatives of Milan organised a meeting in English specifically addressed to professionals. A 60 hours event based other than English classes (using terms and topics related to architecture and design) on a series of meetings with professionals. The topics were: computing (RED), structures (OVE ARUP Milano), architecture and environment (RPBW Paris), materials (MATERIAL CONNECTION), plants (MILANOPROGETTI), offices (STEELCASE), architecture (STUDIO & PARTNERS), textile in construction (LIUNI), fireproof (BOVEMA).
	October 23rd-28th 2003 Place: Amsterdam, Retterdam, Middelburg, Almere, Hilversum Visit to Holland's architectures and museums The initiative coordinated by the architect Federico Balestrini, consisted in visiting the following cities: Amsterdam, Rotterdam, Middelburg, Almere, Hilversum.
	April 26th to May 10th 2003 Place: Triennale of Milan International workshop of architectural and urban design at the Triennale of Milan The theme of the workshop was the recovery of the old industrial area Carminati Toselli. During the workshop (supported by the European Commission, Regione Lombardia and with the patronage of the Council House of Milan) six professors of different European universities (Aveiro, Budapest, Francoforte, Milano, Siviglia, Varsavia) along with a group of 36 students from all Europe, developed a work of design and research on the area owned by the Council House and intended for the "Fabbrica del vapore". Prestigious professors, architects and professionals attended the workshop. The most important contents are collected in a publication and video.

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