Historic Civita di Bagnoregio, Italy. Location for DesignMashup Workshops
DesignMashup 2023
Join Us for This Exciting Civita Workshop
2023 Autumn Session:
Milan Immersion: September 27-29
Civita Workshop: September 30 – October 6
DesignMashup programs focus on student transformation in their own design work. Participants will gain insight into the process & techniques of top designers and engage with a passionate group of like-minded designers, architects, artists, creators, and makers. In the DesignMashup workshops, you will not only get your hands dirty but also explore tools and materials to grow your design skills while bringing joy and lightness to your design work, overcoming creative blocks. The goal is to guide you in exploring your personal design poetics. This spirit of play is embedded in Italian design and is an excellent method also for team-working and participatory design approaches. Download the workshop documentation for complete costs and details.
Enroll today for DesignMashup 2023 Fall
10 Day Milan Design Immersion & Civita Workshop
Enroll now and receive a 20% discount for early registration
Registration is easy but space is limited to 12 participants so sign up early.
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How to Guarantee Your Space and get the Discount: Pre-register before: July 01 for the Autumn Program. Pre-register now and we will invoice you later.
OUR NUMBERS
2
YEARLY WORKSHOPS
24
INTERNATIONAL DESIGNERS
48
PROJECTS
999
IDEAS
Hear from Past DesignMashup Participants
“I would like to thank you for giving me the opportunity to become a part of DesignMashup ’19. It was a great concept that brought together people with diverse design disciplines from around the world to explore new ideas and share experiences and thoughts.”
“The DesignMashup Workshop was a really great experience and I feel really lucky to be part of it. I really liked the idea of having 3 days in Milan and the workshop in Civita afterwards, a perfect contrast to Milan and a real mashup.”
"A challenging and exciting opportunity to be part of this international group, people with different background and culture and a very open approach to design. An amazing experience. We all grew as people and designers."
PROFESSORS
Designer Thomas Lehman, and educator and design journalist, Cecilia Fabiani, will lead participants through a transformational experience built on the foundation of Italian design thinking. Participants embark on a journey of personal discovery that begins in Italy’s modern design world in Milan and progresses to the ancient and magical hill town, Civita di Bagnoregio, to begin a hands-on project bringing modern Italian design-thinking to this ancient village.
DesignMashup Founder
Thomas Lehman
Designer & Professor
Thomas is an American industrial and graphic designer, professor and lecturer. His work focuses on furniture and product design, retail concepts, brand and immersive new media. Thomas currently lives and works in Milan and he holds a masters degree in industrial design and interaction design from Domus Academy, Milan.
Past DesignMashup Tutors
Samuel Stubblefield & Joshua Borsman
Designers, Artists and Technologists, Founders OPEN Studio, LLC, Seattle, USA. Known for a highly collaborative, anti-disciplinary approach plus they are frequent lecturers about their thought provoking work. Their collaborative workshop uses fine art, technology and design as a platform for pursuing broad range of art & design featuring innovative technologies.
DesignMashup Tutors
Cecilia Fabiani
Accomplished Italian designer, journalist, and design critic, Cecilia lectures and writes articles for well-known International design journals on design topics ranging from ancient and traditional Italian design to Italy’s current design culture.
DesignMashup Tutors
Lorenz+Kaz
Milan based German design duo, Catharina Lorenz and Steffen Kaz, have been mashing up their native Northern European design ethos with Italian inspired design since the mid-1990s and lend their unique perspectives to the DesignMashup concept.
DesignMashup Tutors
Markus Benesch
DesignMashup welcomes Munich-born Markus Benesch to our talented team. Markus creates whimsical surfaces, products and interiors and his creative ideas, combined with his ability for flawless execution, have earned him a strong reputation world-wide. Today, Markus commutes between Munich, Milan & New York teaches workshops as a guest professor at L´ESAD Reims, NABA Milano, IED Milano & Politecnico di Milano.
