After the great success of the first edition, esterni presents the second edition of Public Design Festival: a festival aimed in the first place for designers and architects, but also for public administrators, companies, and common citizens to focus on public spaces, and on how they are conceived and designed, or, on the contrary, neglected.

A festival featuring installations and projects in some of Milan's public areas, meeting with representatives of the most important international urban design festivals, workshop on the theme of public spaces, alternative hospitality projects and a big party to celebrate public spaces.

During the Salone del Mobile (Milan's furniture fair), when everyone's attention is focussed on private spaces, esterni will focus on the city of Milan and its inhabitants, to further highlight the central role of public spaces as places where citizens develop a sense of community.

Purpose
The duepercinque competition was created with the following purposes:
- to make the public opinion more aware of the public space as a context for projects.
- to offer everyone - Italians and foreigners alike - the opportunity to express their creativity in a festival which talks about public space and enjoy a prestigious showcase, such as Milan's Salone del Mobile and other important events in Milan.
- to establish in time a tradition of projects in the public space.

Task
Participants shall design an intervention in a urban (2x5-metre) parking space. They may submit different kinds of projects, such as installations, communication projects, services for the city, actions, urban furniture items, or performances.

Submitted projects shall be related to public space according to the following guidelines:
- development of new (creative, temporary, or experimental) solutions to the city's problems
- re-appropriation of the public space as a place to express yourself
- public space as a place where people meet, get together, exchange ideas, integrate, and experiment
- public space as a place where a sense of community is built
- development of new ways to use the public space

Call for new projects
All presented projects shall be new and novel, and especially developed for this competition. Non-compliance with these terms will result in the immediate exclusion from the competition, or should the non-compliance be established at a later stage in the revocation of conferred awards - by unappealable decision of the jury - as well as in the repayment of received prizes.