“Committed, passionate, ingenious, resourceful, elegant and utterly uncompromising, Enzo Mari is one of the most fascinating designers of our time.” Stefano Boeri, President of Triennale Milano, remembers his long-term friendship with Enzo Mari in conversation with Alice Rawsthorn and Hans Ulrich Obrist.

“Committed, passionate, ingenious, resourceful, elegant and utterly uncompromising, Enzo Mari is one of the most fascinating designers of our time.” Marva Griffin, Founder and Curator of SaloneSatellite and Director of Salone del Mobile’s International Press Office, discusses Mari’s role as an “outsider” of the design world with Alice Rawsthorn.

“Committed, passionate, ingenious, resourceful, elegant and utterly uncompromising, Enzo Mari is one of the most fascinating designers of our time.” Design duo Formafantasma explains the influence Enzo Mari had on their ongoing research about the “implication of production” in design processes.

“Committed, passionate, ingenious, resourceful, elegant and utterly uncompromising, Enzo Mari is one of the most fascinating designers of our time.” Design curator Paola Antonelli and Alice Rawsthorn discuss Mari’s influence on today’s understanding of design: from his project of the Milanese Panettoni to the masterpiece Proposta per un’Autoprogettazione.

“Committed, passionate, ingenious, resourceful, elegant and utterly uncompromising, Enzo Mari is one of the most fascinating designers of our time.” Series host Alice Rawsthorn sits down with London-based designer Martino Gamper, who remembers his uncompromising master Enzo Mari.

“Committed, passionate, ingenious, resourceful, elegant and utterly uncompromising, Enzo Mari is one of the most fascinating designers of our time.” Series host Alice Rawsthorn sits down with the curator of the Enzo Mari retrospective at Triennale Milano to discuss how he approaches an exhibition about “the many faces of Mari”.

“Committed, passionate, ingenious, resourceful, elegant and utterly uncompromising, Enzo Mari is one of the most fascinating designers of our time.” Design critic and writer Alice Rawsthorn collaborates with Hans Ulrich Obrist, curator of the Triennale Milano’s Enzo Mari retrospective, on Enzo Mari Costellazione: a podcast in which Mari’s friends and collaborators share their memories and observations of the designer. Architect Stefano Boeri describes him as “a constellation”. Curator Paola Antonelli sees him as “the conscience of Italian design”. While designer Martino Gamper remembers Enzo Mari as having “insulted me in a way that I’ve never been insulted by another designer.” Marva Griffin Wilshire, founder and creator of Salone Satelline, defines him as “an outsider” whilst design duo Formafantasma unfolds the influence Enzo Mari had on their work about the “implication of production” in design processes. As Hans Ulrich Obrist discusses with Alice Rawsthorn: “the exhibition is an exhibition about the many Maris”. Enzo Mari Costellazione is brought to you by Triennale Milano Host: Alice Rawsthorn Sound editing and recording: Spiritland Productions Produced by Marco Martello and Martina Corbella

David Plaisant sits with James Binning who founded in 2010, together with a 16 to 20 partners, Assemble, a multidisciplinary collective that tries to address the typical disconnect between the public and the process by which places are made.

Journalist David Plaisant meets with the rising star of Mexican architecture Tatiana Bilbao, founder of the Tatiana Bilbao Estudio in her native Mexico City in 2004. Image Los Terrenos / Tatiana Bilbao. Photo Rory Gardiner

In this episode David Plaisant meets with thinker Ricky Burdett, professor of Urban Studies at the London School of Economics and Political Science and director of Urban Age project which he founded in 2005. At the end of 2018 Burdett launched “Shaping Cities in an Urban Age” the third in the Urban Age series of publications published by Phaidon.