On the occasion of the Salone del Mobile, from 6th to 8th April 2025, Prada Frames returned: the annual symposium curated by design and research studio Formafantasma and based on the belief that intellectual inquiry and cross-disciplinary dialogue can act as vessels for progress. With a focus on ideas rather than product, the initiative sited at the intersection of design, culture, and society, exploring contemporary issues through a multiplicity of perspectives to convey and enhance complexities rather than taming them.
Under the title In Transit, this fourth edition offered a prismatic gaze on infrastructure as a dynamic and multifaceted system that enables, restricts, and shapes movement, whether of people, goods, data, or power.
Projecting additional meaning through staging, the locations selected for In Transit resonated with the idea of infrastructure and mobility. Discussions took place aboard the Arlecchino train, recently restored by the Fondazione FS Italiane and originally designed by Gio Ponti and Giulio Minoletti in the 1950s, with an exterior informed by naval aerodynamics, and interiors featuring glass partitions, adjustable armchairs, and panoramic lounges, as well as in the Padiglione Reale, the historic structure once reserved as a waiting area for Italian royalty and heads of state within Milan’s Central Station.