During Milan Design Week 2026, students from Artistic Design for Business (Bachelor's Degree) and Product Design (Master's Degree), coordinated by professors Elisabetta Gonzo and Donata Paruccini, present RAKETOPIA tool-being, a research and experimentation space where the rake serves as a tool for reflecting on the relationship between the individual and space, action and transformation, gesture and trace left.

The exhibition will be hosted within the Secret Garden Laura Peroni, a quiet and intimate place, an “urban pause” in the heart of a bustling Milan, accessible through the front door of a historical palace of the 18th-century. The New Urban Landscapes Association, is engaged in the conservation and landscape restoration project, with the aim of activating a small civil green ecosystem.

RAKETOPIA sees, analyzes, and reinvents an object, interpreting it in the rich semantic range of its meanings, functions, and possibilities. The rakes collect, order, and shape physical and conceptual terrain, creating living places that open up spaces of quiet, moments of personal reflection, and a reinterpretation of the landscape. The garden that hosts the exhibition is therefore not simply a setting but an ideal environment where the students’ design projects are put into practice.