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手仕事の復権:ミラノデザインウィーク2026がAIよりも人の手のぬくもりを重視した理由

The Return of the Hand: Why Milan Design Week 2026 Put Human Touch Above AI

ミラノデザインウィーク2026が発信した明確なメッセージ――AI時代だからこそ、人の手が生む意図や不完全さにデザインの魂が宿る。50万人超が目撃した「手の復権」とは。
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At Milan Design Week 2026, held across Fuorisalone from April 20 to 26 and at Salone del Mobile.Milano from April 21 to 26, one message appeared again and again: design is not only about the final object. The official Fuorisalone theme, “Be the Project,” asked visitors to focus on process, responsibility, and the human being at the center of change. After years of excitement about AI, this was striking. Milan did not reject technology, but it clearly suggested that design needs something machines cannot fully produce: touch, judgment, memory, and the meaningful imperfections of making by hand. (fuorisalone.it)

This idea was visible in many of the week’s most interesting projects. At Casa degli Artisti, “Arts & Crafts & Design” brought together the Homo Faber Fellowship, Doppia Firma, Serapian, and Creative Academy in a show that placed making at the center; one section presented 22 pairs of master artisans and young talents from 17 nationalities creating handmade objects through long collaboration. Fuorisalone’s own interviews also stressed the value of slowness and trace: the design duo REdDUO described craft as a process of testing, failing, adjusting, and learning, where the hand leaves marks that become part of an object’s identity. In another project, Hannes Peer and Officine Saffi Lab used ceramics as a slow, layered material that preserves signs of production rather than hiding them. (fuorisalone.it)

Even the more glamorous installations pointed in the same direction. At Prada Home, Theaster Gates presented works with Japanese potters Taira Kuroki, Yuichi Hirano, Shion Tabata, and Koichi Ohara, alongside tea master Yukino Washizu, showing how ritual, craft, and material texture can still feel fresh in 2026. Meanwhile, trend reports from Milan noticed “craft comebacks” and a renewed value for handmade objects in a world full of AI-generated images. (wallpaper.com)

The most important point is that this was not an anti-AI reaction. Fuorisalone’s final report said many exhibitions made process, time, error, and adaptation visible, while AI and other new technologies acted as tools inside that process. Samsung’s own Milan exhibition presented AI in explicitly human-centered terms, linking AI-driven interaction with emotion and human touch. So the “return of the hand” does not mean going backward. It means that, in the AI era, the human hand has become more valuable precisely because it gives design intention, responsibility, and soul. That idea reached a huge audience: Fuorisalone reported over 1,100 listed events and more than 500,000 visitors, while Salone del Mobile welcomed 316,342 visitors from 167 countries. (fuorisalone.it)

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