Naples, the deputy mayor: 'Events like Arkeda revolutionize the sector. De Negri (Progecta): “Opportunities to emerge in Naples”
"We have created what was missing in a metropolis like Naples. We have guessed right for the sixth time, because we organize so many fairs at the Mostra d'Oltremare, with total and full satisfaction. I think I have given Naples, always a bit mistreated, another opportunity to emerge, finally, in the good news".
Thus Angioletto de Negri, patron of Progecta, commenting on the ninth edition of Arkeda, the architecture, construction, design and furniture fair that closed at the Mostra d'Oltremare in Naples.
Over 10 professional visitors crowded the three Arkeda pavilions to visit the 136 exhibitors present. The 2022 edition saw an increase in construction companies, distributors, and wholesalers. Space for training with four workshops and 18 conferences and refresher courses with training credits as well as six exhibitions of excellence, six thematic rooms, and a theater of ideas.
“Arkeda is a place of experimentation. We are always trying new languages – explains the scientific director of the event, Roberto Cappelli – to involve the professional class of architects, the laboratory is one of these. The company presents itself in an arena where it does not explain the commercial characteristics of the product but the technical characteristics, the philosophy, the way to correctly use its research. The architect reads the company in a different, new way”.
“The presence of an event like Arkeda in Naples – underlines Laura Lieto, deputy mayor of the Municipality of Naples – is relevant, not only from the point of view of the construction industry but also from the point of view of innovation. We are in the times of Next Generation Eu, ecological transition. It is important to have an exhibition space where there is the best of innovation in materials, of compatibility of performance from an energy point of view, from the point of view of sustainability. This is something that revolutionizes the industry of the sector and I believe that the contribution of design, in particular of Italian design, is crucial for the purposes of better quality both from the point of view of the production of interior spaces and exterior spaces. It is therefore important that the Mostra d'Oltremare of Naples continues to have a space, with Arkeda in its ninth edition, where operators, professionals, scholars, and I hope also students, increasingly numerous, can participate in this event and can circulate information, ways of doing and innovative practices that are absolutely fundamental in the construction industry, interior design and the preparation of everyday spaces”.
“Arkeda is a professional salon, by definition a point of synthesis and meeting of different figures who – underlines Lorenzo Capobianco, president of the Order of Architects of Naples and its province – each for their own skills have to do with the transformation in space. And this transformation is made starting from the construction materials that have their updating, their development that everyone must be aware of that meet with the skills of those figures with those materials know where and how to use them and therefore we have architects, engineers and all the operators in the sector whose work must necessarily be a joint work for the quality and culture of the project”.
“We are very happy to be here for the ninth year. We have always been here and we believe in this event that – remarks Raffaele De Rosa, vice president of the Order of Engineers of Naples – remains the only one in Southern Italy, the first in Naples, so it is well regarded by engineers, also for the training moments that we guarantee through Arkeda, in a symbiosis with architects who have become our blood brothers on whom this dichotomy, atavistic and past, no longer exists. There is this continuous collaboration, a mix of knowledge and skills that are only good for our category. And the awareness of acquiring greater closeness between the two entities can only improve the condition in which engineers and architects have found themselves and which I hope will improve over time”.
Article published on 7 December 2022 - 19:17
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