Design Monitoring

During this year's Triennial exhibition in Milan, Portugal is offering an extensive program of exhibits and workshops that reflect on the critical and social potentials of design. Under the general theme "Objects After Objects"—which echoes the Triennial's theme this year, "Design After Design"—a series of curators were invited to interpret the state of contemporary design practice in Portugal. Within the larger show, design writer José Bártolo curated New Practices in Design, a small exhibition…