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909 exhibitors in 176,000 square metres. The top appointment, the Lectio Magistralis by Eduardo Souto de Moura,
The opening events on Tuesday 25 with the economic convention and the international press conference.
The 2012 edition of Cersaie, the International Salon of Ceramics for Architecture and Bathroom Furnishings, kicks off in Bologna's trade fair centre from 25 to 29 September. This year, its thirtieth edition, the world's key event for the distribution system, interior designers, architects and installers is sold out, despite the international economic crisis.
The trade fair, promoted by Confindustria Ceramica in collaboration with BolognaFiere and organised by Edi.Cer., occupies an exhibition space covering 176,000 square metres. 909 exhibitors are on show, and for the first time more than 30% are foreigners, from 32 different countries, representing all five continents.
They include 474 manufacturers of tiles (the majority of exhibitors, 52.1%), 292 bathroom furnishings (32.1%) and, in smaller percentages, businesses supplying raw materials, laying equipment, publishing and services.
During the 2011 edition, the five-day event saw 113,165 accesses, with 81,552 visitors including 24,907 foreigners from 147 different countries.
Opening the 2012 edition of Cersaie, on Tuesday 25 September, is the economic convention “Ripartire dal Made in Italy” ("Starting again from Made in Italy"), presented in collaboration with The European House -Studio Ambrosetti, scheduled for 11.00 at the Europauditorium in the Palazzo dei Congressi. Taking partin the event, opened by the Chairman of BolognaFiere Duccio Campagnoli and the Chairman of the Emilia-Romagna Region Vasco Errani, will be the Italy’s Civil Service Minister Filippo Patroni Griffi, the Chairmanof Confindustria Giorgio Squinzi and the Chairman of Confindustria Ceramica Franco Manfredini. Thediscussion, also with the participation of Irene Tinagli, professor of Business Economics at the Carlos IIIUniversity in Madrid, will be chaired by the Director of Class CNBC Italia Andrea Cabrini.
Again on Tuesday 25 there is another of the Salon's key appointments, the International press conference Ceramics of Italy, held at 6.30 pm in the Galleria dell’Architettura – Gallery 25-26. This event will behosting the Chairman of Confindustria Ceramica Franco Manfredini, the Vice Chairman Alessandro Scopetti, Chairman of Promotional Activities and Trade Fairs Vittorio Borelli, the Director of ICE-AgenziaRoberto Luongo, councillor for Production Activities of the Emilia-Romagna Region Gian Carlo Muzzarelli and the Director of Confindustria Ceramica Armando Cafiero. At the end of the conference the Ceramics of Italy Journalism Awards will be giving prizes to members of the international press, and the exhibitions onshow at the Architecture Gallery will be inaugurated.
And this year too there is a rich and varied calendar of events in the Costruire, abitare, pensare (Building, Dwelling, Thinking) cultural programme organised within Cersaie, including appointments with important
international names in architecture and design. This begins on Tuesday 25 with the unusual couple Bruce Sterling and Cini Boeri, two masters respectively of science fiction literature and Italian design: the father ofcyberpunk and the ambassadress of Made in Italy will be discussing matters in the Galleria dell’Architetturafrom 2.00 pm. The following day, Wednesday 26, at 10.00 am, again in the Architecture Gallery, the
appointment is with the lightness and experimentation of Shigeru Ban, the Japanese architect famous for his living solutions adopted following natural disasters. Not to be missed in the afternoon, from 3.00 pm in the same location, the “Poetic Engineering” event with Alberto Meda and his essential design.
