Insight: Inside flora&faunavisions’ Magenta Moon Campus
Communicating engagingly is key no matter the medium. With over 20 years of delivering design experiences, the studio flora&faunavisions (FFV) triggers memories and emotions through…
Architectures, Design, Interviews
ROBOCOOP, a provocative and reflexive approach to design
ROBOCOOP – RomaBologna Cooperation – an art duo project initiated in 2012 by two photographers and architects, has research and experimentation as core beliefs for…
Insight: ‘Digital Atmosphere’, a new Augmented Reality experience by Studio Above&Below
The minds behind London-based art and design studio Studio Above&Below are Daria Jelonek & Perry-James Sugden. They founded the studio after graduating from the Royal…
MONIRA AL QADIRI, iridising the tragedy of Petroculture
In the early 1950s, when the business with the ‘black gold’ took off at an enormous pace, the Arab states of the Persian Gulf became…
Design, Interviews, Robotics & Kinetics
JOHN A. PERALTA, the fragmented beauty behind ‘Mechanations’
Self-taught artist John A. Peralta has a whose unconventional sculpture style that combines mechanical objects and high-tech materials to create complex representations that are incredible…
Insight: ‘THE CAMILLE DIARIES’, finding kin and ‘m/othering’ life
Donna Haraway introduces us to the Camilles in the final chapter of “Staying with the Trouble” as “one of the children of the compost who…
Open call: TdD #37 ‘Invisible Conflicts: The New Terrain of Bodies, Infrastructures and Information’
Temes de Disseny (Topics on Design, hereinafter TdD, in its Catalan acronym) is an open-access scientific journal from the design research and design engineering research…
Exhibition: ‘Hotel Symbiogenesis’ by Designmatter X Hypothetical Studios
Hotel Symbiogenesis unfolds a story of an island in the near-apocalyptic future, in which various animal species, including humans, coexist symbiotically. In a speculative hotel room,…
Publication: ‘Temes de Disseny #36: Design Futures Now: Literacies and Making’
Temes de Disseny, the yearly publication of ELISAVA Barcelona School of Design and Engineering is back with Design Futures Now: Literacies and Making, an issue…
Design, Digital Culture, Interviews
ASA, stories of transcending the barriers between the physical and virtual worlds
Reader, I hope you are prepared for this intergalactic transcending journey, as this is an interview from another world. Or better yet, worlds. Taking reality…
Insight: Beyer and Sizemore’s speculative material research ‘For the Rest of Us’
Coming from a background in Industrial Design, the California based duo Hank Beyer and Alex Sizemore are working at the borders of Art and Design,…
STUDIO FORMAFANTASMA, the importance of environmental awareness translated into design
What is most striking about Studio Formafantasma, is their incredible inclination to wonder at the natural world and it’s biological, chemical, physical processes and –…
Festival: 2020 Go (online)! Design Society International Design Festival
Design Society is an innovative cultural platform in China that connects audiences with design. It’s organised around two pillars: a visitor destination and an innovation…
‘THE BODY GARDEN’ by Fred Erik & Pleun van Dijk
No other being has transformed its surroundings so radically as humans. Throughout evolution, our clever use of technology has made us into a dominant force…
Virtual Talk: LABS, Future Interiors by Studio Samira Boon
Studio Samira Boon, in collaboration with Waag and the VU Amsterdam, is working on Living Aero Bacterial Systems (LABS), a project that focuses on a new material…
A framework for systematically applying humanistic ethics when using AI as design material by Kyle Dent, Richelle Dumond & Mike Kuniavsky
Because of its incredible power, the unexpected consequences of AI in all its forms, from simple pattern recognition to complex planning, prediction, and reasoning are…
Design: Nagami Design 3D prints protective masks to help fighting COVID-19
Nagami Design is a design brand that explores new and sustainable territories, bridging imagination and creation. Their practice involves the conception and development of software…
‘Mushrooms: The Art, Design and Future Of Fungi’ by Piotr Bockowski
The exhibition Mushrooms: The Art, Design And Future Of Fungi invites us to ever-mutating life of symbiotic hybrids and shows that co-existence of diverse bodies…
Architectures, Design, Op & Ed
Aimee Aizhen Chen, an architect in the age of digital technology by Adriana Ciotau
New technologies can impact on how architects create an experience in architecture by pushing its boundaries. The focus of architect Aimee Aizhen Chen‘s practice represents…
Publication: ‘Temes de disseny #35: AI and emerging digital technologies as a design material’
Temes de Disseny, the yearly publication of ELISAVA Barcelona School of Design and Engineering is back with an issue focused on AI and emerging digital technologies…