The “Courmayeur Design Week-End” has just ended under Mont Blanc. The second edition of the event dedicated to design and architecture was staged from 10 to 13 March: many installations, appointments with architects, designers and design studios, widespread exhibitions, themed showcases and cableways. When design joins sport. As is also the case in the Dolomites: on top of Lagazuoi, 2,732 meters above Passo Falzarego, a new temporary exhibition has been set up with materials from the Scarpone Museum. In fact, the theme is “The imprint of innovation. How the Sportsystem District has changed the world of sports footwear ”: twelve representative products are exhibited here, footwear that have made the history of mountain sports. Among these are the first boots that made it to the top of K2, the shoes that revolutionized cycling, the prototypes that made great feats possible. It is the heritage of the Montebelluna District, which has always specialized in the development and production of footwear and sports equipment. The exhibition space at the top of Mount Lagazuoi thus tells, once again, the history of mountaineering and sport from an original point of view.
«Lagazuoi Expo Dolomiti was created precisely to bring to the surface the often submerged potential of the mountain as a bearer of values - sustainability, environment, research and development – underlined Stefano Illing, creator of the exhibition space -. Through this exhibition we want to give visibility to the excellence of Made in Italy that invest in high-tech materials, technologies and solutions that bring sportsmen and tourists closer to the high lands ». The exhibition can be visited until June 26th.
Meanwhile in the valley, in the Trentino Valsugana, a new artistic project has been launched: it is called the Sky Museum and was conceived by Arte Sella together with the Municipality of Borgo Valsugana.
These are three installations placed in the historic center that have mountains as a backdrop: the first is “The Broken Oak”, consisting of two large trunks of the same oak uprooted by the Vaia storm. The second is entitled “Counter-façade”: a succession of metal mesh volumes, four meters high, at the Community House in Borgo Valsugana. The third, light and floating, is “The Flying Man”: this too made with wire mesh and located near the Venetian bridge.