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…
Architectures, Design, Interviews, Key Artists
GREG LYNN, applying technology in architecture and design
The nature of technology is explored in Greg Lynn’s practice, in a way in which technology changes the way we perceive architecture and how we…
TOBIAS GREMMLER, morphing the visual uniqueness of movement and rhythm
Texture. Colour. Material. Light. Movement. Sound. One morphing from another, seamlessly coming together. Suggestive. Empathetic. Delicate. Strong. Seductive. Impossible to separate all these instances. An…
Design, Interviews, Robotics & Kinetics
CHRISTOPHER BAUDER, unfolding the allure of light and motion
Christopher Bauder is a media artist and interaction designer living and working in Berlin. His work in large scale spatial art installations began following his…
Design fiction and the precipice of politics by Sim Goodwin
We are sitting on the precipice of something. The world around us is changing ever faster, but our future seems evermore confusing. In no context…
Design, Interviews, Scout & Trends
JOHAN KRANTZ, the nature-culture divide
Now our transition into the Anthropocene is seen as complete, what becomes of nature? Is it still existent, or has it become a construct? A…
Event: Design and Politics Season at Arcade East
Arcade East is a new exhibition space located in Hackney (London) created to focus on innovative forms of art and digital practice. Every summer Arcade…
Architectures, Design, Op & Ed
IDZ arhitectura and the architectural artefacts in digital technology by Adriana Ciotau
Dana Anton and Ionut Anton (IDZ arhitectura) have always considered that it is not enough to have beautiful images as a result of a computation…