White Out: The Future of Winter Sports
How can design contribute to making sport possible under increasingly extreme conditions, and what new requirements arise from this? The Triennale Milano 2026, curated this year by Konstantin Grcic and Marco Sammicheli, aims to provide answers.
Between 28 January and 29 March, the exhibition ‘White Out. The Future of Winter Sports’ will bring together sporting disciplines, design projects, equipment, technologies and, above all, sports architecture in thematically designed areas to highlight how design and innovation are responding to changing environmental conditions. The focus will be on winter sports, winter tourism concepts, competition formats and the design of sports facilities, equipment and uniforms.
Winter Sports in Transition
Why ‘White Out’? The term refers to an optical effect at high altitudes: when the sky and snow-covered landscape merge into a uniform surface, a flat, dazzling white environment with severely restricted visibility is created. This phenomenon serves as the starting point for the exhibition ‘White Out. The Future of Winter Sports’ for a fundamental examination of the future of winter sports in the context of current climate developments.
