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…
Architectures, Design, Interviews
MAXIM ZHESTKOV, dissecting the source code of nature in intricate CG simulations
The creative horizon of media artist-slash-motion designer Maxim Zhestkov spans several disciplines from all across the artistic spectrum, combining art, music, architecture, design and computer…
Insight: SENSERGY/AGR KNITS playing with fashion hybrid realities
Digital collections, augmented reality showrooms, computer-generated influencers such as the omnipresent Lil Miquela, virtual avatars and digital collections designed for these virtual avatars… the fashion…
‘Heavy Rotation: The Cyclical World of Sculpture’ by Daniel Mackenzie
Following earlier developments in the Middle East, the Copper Age brought into being such developments as the potter’s wheel and the first wheeled vehicles, kicking…
‘Daan Roosegaarde’s Presence as techno-poetic meditation upon human impact on Earth’ by Silvija Daniunaite
As you wander through eight hundred square meters of luminescent halls in the Groninger Museum, each bathed in an unfolding dance of phosphorescent blues and…
Exhibition: ‘Lichtfelder’ at STATE Studio Berlin
On 1 November 2019 STATE Studio Berlin will open the exhibition Lichtfelder as part of Berlin Science Week. The exhibition is an artistic-scientific reflection on…