Insight: Shai Baitel on curating Zaha Hadid’s “Close Up” exhibition at MAM Shanghai
Between July 3 and August 29, the Modern Art Museum (MAM) Shanghai hosts the Close Up – Work & Research exhibit, where visitors are invited…
Insight: the uncanny plant-life speculations of 30drop’s “Photosynthetic Zone Manifesto”
It is widely known the key roles plants play in human cultures across the globe and across and generations; from Greek and Northern European mythology,…
Insight: Microbial Cosmologies, a future built around the microbial world
Among its many impacts, the covid-19 pandemic has challenged our eagerness to move freely and safely through towns and across borders. This year inside has…
Speculative futures: ‘Hope in the Heat’, imagining hopeful visions of a climate-altered future
Hope in the Heat is a collaboration with futures design studio and Somerset House Studios resident Superflux. Superflux have been working with the Future Producers…
Exhibition: ‘Interspecies Futures [IF]’, defying the borders between fiction and reality
Center for Book Arts promotes active explorations of artistic practices related to the book as an art object. Founded in 1974, Center for Book Arts…
Insight: Studio Imprudence and the virtual exhibition ‘In Gut We Trust’
The future is no longer conceived as a utopian space – nor a fate from which we cannot escape. As we are exhausted of the…
Insight: ‘Portraits of a Mind’, an enticing tribute to Bitcoin’s history by Robert Alice
Myths have existed for as long as humanity has. We all love a great story, even better if it poses a great mystery. Portraits of…
Insight: ‘Habitate’, a material that mimics the biostructure of the ash tree’s bark
In 2015, the leading thinker and philosopher of science Donna Haraway wrote in Anthropocene, Capitalocene, Plantationocene, Chthulucene: Making Kin, Who and whatever we are, we…
Insight: 3D art evoking emotion by breaking the law of physics
Hussain Almossawi is a CG artist, director, and product designer based in Brooklyn, New York. He is the Mossawi Studios founder, a multi-disciplinary studio working…
‘How motion graphic designers bridge the gap between what is real and what is fiction’ by Maren Häußermann
The pendulums swing back and forth in an endless movement. All three pass in perfect adjustment through holes in a hollow cylindrical form that moves…
PASCAL SMELIK, an incursion into frozen design and nature
Studio Pascal Smelik – studio for site-specific and custom-made object design – is a studio founded by Pascal Smelik in 2010, where he practices his…
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…