Against War. 7 designers for EMERGENCY

On the occasion of Design Week 2025, Alias, a well-established Italian design brand, is pleased to support ‘Against War. 7 designers for EMERGENCY’, curated by Giulio Iacchetti in collaboration with EMERGENCY. The project reiterates, in the words of the NGO founder Gino Strada, that ‘a world without war is another utopia that we cannot wait any longer to see transformed into reality’. If war demolishes, peace is also built through awareness-raising. Piece by piece, project by project. Such as those, previously unseen, presented by the seven internationally renowned Italian designers brought together in the exhibition ‘Against War. 7 designers for EMERGENCY’ at the Milan Triennale: seven projects signed by Sara Bozzini, Riccardo Blumer, Lorenzo Damiani, Marco Ferreri, Donata Paruccini, Paolo Ulian and Giulia Iacchetti (curator of the exhibition) 

accompanied by the eyes and words of the writer Giacomo Papi. The exhibition stages projects that reflect profound and essential issues of our time characterised by growing conflicts and inequalities. The works created, in dialogue with each other, create a space for reflection in which to ask urgent questions about the present and future of humanity, about the ways of living together. Because talking to an ‘adversary’, caring for others, preserving relations between people and societies, between peoples and countries, are still viable and desirable actions. 

Alias supports Riccardo Blumer's Custodie per disinnesco exhibition by furnishing the 6 square metre space with a selection of products designed by Blumer himself for Alias. The chairs and tables of the Laleggera - Ilvolo series and the new Lanuda chairs will welcome the operators every day during the 

exhibition, who will give life to a real knitting workshop, taking turns in a textile ritual and giving shape to new cases for disarming. 

‘A woollen thread to weave peace, an ancient gesture that resurfaces in the contemporary world. The project was born to make, directly on site, cases for disarming: ambidextrous gloves, with a double imprint, to be worn in silent understanding. Hands that meet, exchange, mirror each other. Hands that defuse tensions, that intertwine in the sign of empathy, in a simple and powerful rite, physical and symbolic at the same time. The defusing happens through contact, through the soft weave of wool that welcomes, that protects, that unites. Not an abstract idea, but an experience to be lived, to be felt on the skin. An artefact to wear, born from the slow time of working hands, in the beating heart of the Triennale,' says Riccardo Blumer. 

This project is a hymn to collective work, to the handicraft gesture, to the value of human contact. Knitting becomes a weft of relationships, a fabric that weaves the possibility of a common good, made of listening and mutual recognition. A constant exercise of psychological and ideological defusing, which loosens knots, which eases tensions, which separates us from hatred in order to return us to humanity. Because peace is woven, like a thread between our hands. And the defusing begins with us. Custodie per disinnesco comes to life thanks to the contribution of Fiordilana of Villa Santa (MB), which will organise the voluntary work, and Manifattura Sesia of Fara Novarese (NO), which will offer its precious yarn.