Now in its fourth edition, Prada Frames is the annual symposium, based on the belief that interdisciplinary research and dialogue can offer tools for progress. Curated by the design and research studio Formafantasma, the event takes place in parallel with the Salone del Mobile in Milan.

Focusing on ideas rather than products, the initiative is positioned at the intersection of design, culture and society: an observatory from which to explore contemporary issues through a multiplicity of perspectives that enhance and highlight complexities rather than regiment them.

Entitled In Transit, the 2025 edition offers a prismatic look at infrastructure as a dynamic and articulated system that accelerates, limits and shapes movement – ​​of people, goods, data or energy.

The symposium examines the interaction between mobility, design and the environment, addressing the impact of digital revolutions and global distribution networks on everyday life; explores the disruptive nature of infrastructural advances, from the Internet to large-scale logistics systems, as well as advances in procurement and distribution; considers how goods and products crisscross the globe with an ease that human mobility, subject as it is to geopolitical bias and legal constraints, does not; and considers the contradictions that underlie contemporary hypermobility.

Projecting further meaning through staging, the locations selected for In Transit serve as a sounding board for the concepts of infrastructure and mobility. Discussions will take place aboard the Arlecchino train, recently restored by Fondazione FS Italiane and originally designed in the 1950s by Gio Ponti and Giulio Minoletti, with its exterior inspired by naval aerodynamics and interiors featuring glass partitions, adjustable armchairs, and panoramic lounges, as well as in the Royal Pavilion, the historic structure once reserved as a waiting room for Italian royalty and heads of state inside Milan’s Central Station. Both places raise questions about social structures and mobility, while allowing the public to rediscover true masterpieces of design and architecture.

Admission to Prada Frames In Transit is free, subject to availability, upon registration on prada.com starting March 31st