The Seed Festival returns to Perugia in October for its fourth edition, offering four days of interdisciplinary dialogue. More than just an event, Seed serves as a cultural platform: a space where designers, architects, engineers and urban planners engage in dialogue with artists, scientists, philosophers, psychologists, economists, academics and entrepreneurs. The aim is not merely to facilitate the convergence of knowledge, but to trigger processes of hybridisation and critical reflection capable of generating new design trajectories, challenging disciplinary boundaries and established practices.

Build un-build
20-26 April 2026
Milano Design Week

To mark Milan Design Week 2026, Seed and Listone Giordano invite designers, architects, students and researchers to take part in build un-build, an interactive experience that explores the contemporary meaning of building as a cultural, ethical and relational act.

Theme of the 2026

The 2026 edition of Seed is dedicated to the concept of humanity and aims to explore the fragile balance between our social nature and the challenges of the contemporary world, marked by a growing loss of physical reality and a progressive removal of the Other.

Seed Road Map 2026

Past events 2025

Milan: Seed preview

On October 16, 2025, the event in Milan marked the start of the journey towards Seed, the 2026 International Architecture Festival in Perugia. The journey will touch cities such as Venice, Rome, Amsterdam, and Madrid, opening a dialogue on the themes of design culture and contemporaneity. Among the protagonists of the evening were architect Michele De Lucchi, philosopher Walter Mariotti, Seed scientific coordinator Barbara Cadeddu, and Andrea Margaritelli, president of IN/ARCH.

Topic

Five thematic areas of investigation with the intention of sowing a seed from which to germinate a vision of the world aimed at bringing together political, intellectual and social forces around the common goal of peace and environmental protection.