Returning to The Architect Show 2025, the creative duo Ciarmoli Queda — born in Milan and based in Athens — presents M.I.D Ordine Futuro, an immersive installation that transforms the exhibition space into a tactile labyrinth: a poetic metaphor for the complexity and magic of materials in motion.
MID Ordine Futuro is born from the aspiration to create an extraterritorial space.
It draws a labyrinth where time stretches and pauses — where design, architecture, and creative thinking intertwine to trace the outlines of a possible “future order”.
Designed as a space of discovery and experimentation, MID Ordine Futuro invites visitors to lose themselves among 182 surfaces — panels, partitions, and unexpected openings — that narrate a tactile, visual journey.
The installation brings together a diverse array of materials such as woods, clays, fabrics, plants, meshes, and finishes, each forming part of a complex and layered whole.
Objects and materials, arranged along a clear yet open-ended path, resist fixed function or meaning. Stylised furnishings — chairs, sofas, small tables — interact with architectural materials, prompting new uses and ideas.
Colour and light play a central role, as does the landscape design bridging indoors and out, responding directly to the architectural concept. Unique elements shape the composition and rhythm of the spatial experience.
After the exhibition, many of the elements will be repurposed, reinforcing the project’s commitment to circular design.

Colour, light, and a soft touch:
The palette speaks of nature, sustainability, and the Mediterranean. A wide spectrum of colours is modulated through varied material textures.
Dominant greens range from forest to pistachio, pine to mint, joined by lighter or earthier tones recalling Magna Graecia and classical drapery — neutrals and warm shades from creamy white to pecan, petal, and blush Valentino pinks, echoing the visceral legacy of the Mediterranean, between the white of Sarakiniko and the black of lava and obsidian.
We believe in the extraordinary power of the Labyrinth: a space that invites immersion, where getting lost becomes a form of discovery. A place where inside and outside blend, and where materials, colours, and living spaces converge in a living conversation that dares to imagine — and shape — the future.

Within the framework of tAS, this year’s installation is more than scenography. It is an experience, a statement, a proposition. It reflects the spirit of our times and the drive to rethink the fundamentals of design — on material, technical, and philosophical levels.

From December 6 to 7, 2025, at the Athens Metropolitan Expo, M.I.D Ordine Futuro invites visitors into a landscape of exploration, where design becomes a means of interpreting the world — and a tool for reshaping it.