MILANO CITTÀ MONDO
Milano Città Mondo is a project of the Municipality of Milan, Mudec and Ufficio Progetti Interculturali, Reti e Cooperazione, born in 2015.
It represents a window into the city’s cultural complexity, thanks to an incessant focus on suburban contexts, hybridisations of codes and aesthetic canons, youth creativity and international and diasporic identities. Its context weaves a strong relationship between public art, intercultural projects and museum heritage in a contemporary dimension.
Milano Città Mondo promotes intercultural activities, exhibitions, lectures, laboratories and courses in the Space of Cultures “Khaled al-Asaad”.
It deals with reflections and experiences that narrate identity, history, current events and processes of transcultural representation taking place in a Milano that more and more proposes itself as a cosmopolitan and multi-ethnic metropolis.
LA SETTIMANA BIANCA (SKI BREAK)
Indigenous Knowledge, Ice Ecologies, and Artistic Practices
Programme of Talks and Films
12 February – 28 June 2026
The exhibition The Sense of Snow is further explored through The White Week, a programme of talks addressing the complex interconnections between climate, cultures, and territories. The programme is co-curated by anthropologist and professor at NABA University Andrea Staid, in collaboration with Massimo Tavoni, Director of the EIEE – European Institute on Economics and the Environment.
LA SETTIMANA BIANCA (SKI BREAK)
In a context marked by the climate emergency, the museum reflects on the cultural challenges faced by different communities as they seek to balance the preservation of their traditions while adapting to profound environmental changes. A series of talks places at its centre those most exposed to the effects of climate change -from the Sámi and Inuit of the Northern and Artic regions, to the Selk’nam and Yaghan of Tierra del Fuego, and the communities of the Himalayas- bringing into dialogue indigenous knowledge, climate studies, and artistic practices.
The themes addressed include the impact of global warming on local cultures, conflicts related to resource exploitation, the transformation of glacial territories, and forced migration.
Travelogue
The public program of the exhibition “Travelogue” accompanies and deepens the themes of the exhibition through life stories, poetry, music, cinema and theater: meetings, conferences, talks, performances and shows will accompany us from March to September 2025.
Many screenings have been prepared in collaboration with the Cineteca Milano Arlecchino.
The Mudec Auditorium will host, among others, the multimedia monologue ‘The Century is Movin’ by Gabriele del Grande and the International Day of Roma, Sinti and Caminanti by the Kethane Movement.
The program, curated by the Ufficio Reti e Cooperazione Culturale, also includes meetings such as the one with Wael Farouq and Bruna Peyrot, organized in collaboration with the Istituto di Cultura Araba di Milano, and the one with Matteo De Monte, Ciaj Rocchi and Daniele Brigadoi Cologna, a series of lectures entitled ‘Asia on the Road’, promoted in collaboration with the Centro di Cultura Italia-Asia, a talk with the artist Adrian Paci, and many other events.
Past editions
MCM 2023 #Rainbow
As part of Mudec’ s renewed vision, in which the synergy between the museum’s various souls is increasingly strong, MCM programme becomes the palimpsest of the temporary exhibition ‘Rainbow. Colours and wonders among myths, arts and science’.
MCM#Rainbow focuses its attention on the theme of the Rainbow as an element symbolising cultural, spiritual and political values, and its programme is enriched with the special edition of the Black Arts Movement School Modality Milano session on the Rainbow, borrowed from the American context and conceived specifically for the Italian situation.
MCM#Rainbow schedule includes meetings, readings, screenings, presentations on the theme of the rainbow and a podcast: “The wonder of colour” conceived by sinologist Sergio Basso.
Black Arts Movement School Modality Milano Session on the Rainbow (BAMSM)
Milano Città Mondo promotes the public program of “Rainbow. Colors and wonders between myths, arts, and science”. The focus of the programme is Black Arts Movement School Modality Milan Session on the Rainbow: a week, from 22nd – 26th May, aimed at students, artists, researchers, activists with a migratory background, and all those interested in exploring the relationship between art, expression, and resistance (art, music, poetry, narrative, theatre…) in both the Italian and American contexts. In addition to the creator of the American school, Romi Crawford, the Mudec edition will have a co-curator, Mackda Ghebremariam Tesfau’, an expert on the Italian and European context and will feature contributions from artists and educators.
What role do museums and schools play in the context of cultural leveling? Can institutions recognize their own colonial legacy and make structural changes? Artistic institutions better tools to recognize and valorize cultural, artistic, and theoretical contributions, as well as pedagogical and learning practices that emerge from other cultural domains. The school, with its intercontinental and intergenerational dialogue, offers itself as a space in which to activate conversations and in-depth discussions on these issues.
Romi Crawford’s presence in Milan favours the comparison and analysis of the characteristics, styles and central themes of the American and Italian contexts, as well as the highlighting of the historical bearing and topicality of the Black Arts movement of the 1960s and 1970s.
Lessons and meetings filmed as part of the ‘Tik Tok Mundi’ project by the Università Statale di Milano, Polo di Mediazione Interculturale e Comunicazione, and the material collected in a digital publication in this web-site: Milano Mundi
Thanks to the collaboration with ANISA Sezione di Milano, a qualified training institution for teachers under MIUR Directive 170/2016, teachers will receive a certificate for their training hours.
OLTRE LA VETRINA
‘Oltre la vetrina’ (i.e. ‘Beyond the showcase’) is the public program of the exhibition ‘EXPOSURE. Art, culture and fashion inside and outside the showcase’.
The themes of the exhibition will be explored in depth through an articulated program of events, meetings and workshops, as well as through the podcast of the same name, ‘Oltre la vetrina’, produced with the support of Chora Media.
Internationally renowned experts in culture, science and anthropology will lead practical workshops and face-to-face meetings.
MUDEC’s challenge is to make known and accessible to a wider public the contemporary debate that accompanies the theme of exhibition and cultural appropriation in its various forms: that of human remains or the demand for the return of illegally removed works, as well as the ambivalence of the showcase, which safeguards, protects and preserves the object, while depriving it of its function of use and its cultural and ritual value.
