Visitors to Notte Bianca on Saturday this year will be able to engage with the city in new and innovative ways thanks to Design4DCity, an experiment in the sharing of knowledge and common space.

Design4DCity will see Paris-based Nanotak Studio make their Malta debut. The duo, comprised of illustrator Noemi Schipfer and the architect musician Takami Nakamoto, has become renowned for creating ethereal, immersive and dreamlike sound and light environments meant to envelope viewers.

Their work has been exhibited at institutions and galleries, including the Tokyo Grant Hyatt Hotel, l’Opéra de Lyon, Batiment d’Art Contemporain de Genève, Theater de NWE Vorst, La Fabrique, Pavillon Carré de Baudouin, Le Générateur.

Maltese musician and sound designer Mario Sammut, known as Cygna, will be contributing his own brand of symphonic ambient soundscapes to the project

Maltese musician and sound designer Mario Sammut, known as Cygna, will be contributing his own brand of symphonic ambient soundscapes to the project.

In 2011 he launched his album Opus Ena at the National Museum of Fine Arts. Cygna has participated at numerous international art festivals around Europe such as the Glastonbury festival in UK, Aurora in Greece, Sun festival in Hungary, Hadra in France and many others.

Design4DCity is a collaboration between the Valletta Design Cluster, the Valletta 2018 Foundation and Notte Bianca Valletta.

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