Domestic Oracles
The exhibition with Alessi during Design Week 2026
Product & Furniture Design students from Istituto Marangoni Milano Design, in collaboration with Alessi.
In collaboration with Alessi, students from the Master’s in Product & Furniture Design envision a new generation of domestic objects capable of embodying artificial intelligence, translating it into a tangible and perceptible presence. Not tools that inform or instruct, but silent companions that integrate into the rhythms of the home, responding to the environment through light, vibration, reflection, and kinetic gesture.
The project Domestic Oracles explores the poetic dimension of design: how an object can offer symbolic and emotional feedback without speaking the language of data. These artefacts do not communicate through screens or notifications, but through their enigmatic, refined, and atmospheric presence. Each object becomes a small domestic oracle: something that observes, perceives, and returns meaning in a subtle, almost imperceptible way.
Domestic artifacts translate artificial intelligence into physical presence, responding through light, movement and subtle sensory interactions.
Objects communicate without screens or data, offering emotional and symbolic feedback through atmosphere, materiality and refined design language.
Artificial intelligence becomes a silent companion, integrating into everyday spaces and shaping new relationships between people and responsive systems.
The aim is to transform AI from an abstract and invisible entity into a tangible domestic companion, capable of enriching the atmosphere of everyday spaces and revealing new forms of relationship between people and intelligent systems. An exploration of how beauty, empathy, and material innovation can redefine the very meaning of technological presence in daily life.
