MACRO. MUSEUM OF THE EVERYDAY

The MACRO – Museo d’Arte Contemporanea di Roma hosts the exhibition of the nine projects developed by IED students from the Thesis Laboratory in Interior Design during the 2025/2026 academic year.The exhibition presents nine different interpretations of the MACRO as a Museum of the Everyday: a museum open to everyday life, capable of hosting activities and forms of sociality usually foreign to the museum institution. The projects imagine new ways of inhabiting the museum's spaces, placing alongside the exhibition function places for training, cultural production, work, well-being, collective rituals and the sharing of experiences.Starting from the existing architecture and its experimental vocation, the students have worked on the MACRO as a cultural and civic infrastructure: a permeable organism, rooted in the city and able to transform in relation to the needs of contemporary society. Pathways, atriums, connecting spaces and liminal environments thus become the ground for experimenting with unprecedented programmes and flexible spatial devices.Alongside the nine projects is exhibited the research that accompanied and supported the activity of ideation and development.