BRUCE & STEPHANIE THARP, drawing new boundaries in design
In the span of the last 20 years, design and design thinking has disseminated into new roles. Born from a need to account and create…
Competition: RESHAPE 19 | cognified matter
We are moving towards an era of augmentation. Wearables, smart devices, and e-textiles are new solutions for future hybrid generations of interconnected humans and devices….
Matter Still Matters (in The Immaterial Age), by Silvia Pizzocaro
The recurrent arguments of immateriality, with its claims for shapeless functions and for information as raw material, continue occurring in a pervasively tangible world: people…
‘NEW SILK: Exploring design-science collaboration for new materials’, Kirsi Niinimäki, Camilla Groth & Pirjo Kääriäinen
New Silk is a 4 year material research project conducted at Aalto University aiming to produce new types of silk-like materials in the context of…
Design, H0 Institute, Interviews, Scout & Trends
MAËL HÉNAFF, on how technology will make us the humans we always wanted to be
Technology is viewed in different manners. Some see it as positive. Most see it as negative. Some are neutral. However, there are some who take…
Editor’s Pick: ‘Temes de Disseny’, by ELISAVA Barcelona School of Design and Engineering
ELISAVA is a centre specialised in design and engineering located in the center of Barcelona close to Les Rambles attached to the Pompeu Fabra…
Talk: Extinction Rebellion at Accept & Proceed
Heading For Extinction (and what to do about it)… The planet is in ecological crisis: we are in the midst of the sixth mass extinction…
Design, Interviews, Sound, Unsound
Insight: ALEKSANDRA GRüNHOLZ, the allure of the dark and the grotesque
When we cannot make sense out of all the information, with which we are bombarded each day. When we cannot use reason to comprehend the…
Biomedia, Design, News, Series, STATE Studio
Exhibition and workshop: ‘Living Canvas’ by Fara Peluso at STATE Studio Berlin
A new exhibition is opening at STATE studio Berlin, Living Canvas by Fara Peluso, a berlin based designer and artist. The exhibition consists of the installation Living Canvas…
Biomedia, Design, Interviews, Scout & Trends
LEONI FISCHER, visualising the cyclic rhythms of Euglena
“Euglena, a genus of more than 1,000 species of single-celled flagellated (i.e., having a whiplike appendage) microorganisms that feature both plant and animal characteristics. Found…
Biomedia, Design, News, Robotics & Kinetics
Insight: ‘Elowan’ and plant augmentation, Harpreet Sareen
Lots have been said and written about human enhancement, robotic prosthetics, cyborgs and even human-animal communication augmentation. But what about plants? What if machines…
Summit: Biofabricate Conference 2018
This Thursday 13 Biofabricate, the annual summit on grown materials, comes to New Lab in Brooklyn to celebrate its fifth anniversary. Founded by Suzanne Lee,…
Architectures, Design, Interviews
STUDIO DRIFT, sculpting the relationship between humans and nature
Studio Drift was founded in 2007 by Lonneke Gordijn and Ralph Nauta. Their work explores the relationships between humans, nature and technology through a…
Installation: Photo.Synth.Etica, a biodigital urban curtain
Architect, urban designer and ecologist Claudia Pasquero and architect, author and educator Marco Poletto founded in 2005 ecologicStudio, an architectural and urban design practice…
Design, Interviews, Scout & Trends
ALICE POTTS, ways to use sweat to create accessories
In the past couple of years the discipline of material innovation has seen an increasing number of interdisciplinary collaborations which are producing new exciting…
Insight: Soliquid, experimenting with new morphologies
3D Printing is an increasingly popular fabrication technique – we are witnessing a multitude of materials, from plastic to bio-resin, machines such as small 3D…
Design, Interviews, Scout & Trends
CHRISTINA HAXHOLM, exploring ideological forecasts for the future
Over the last couple of years, the fashion and textile industry has taken a great interest in the new possibilities that the biotechnology industry is…
Event: 3 Days of Fat by Thought Collider and Arne Hendriks
The infamous ‘Monster of Whitechapel’, a 130-tonne ‘fatberg’, is a huge clump of oil, rubbish and waste which block up the sewers below the city…
Biomedia, Design, Interviews, Scout & Trends
KLARA RAVAT, uniting the olfactory sensorial experience and cognition
Unlike other animals, humans have evolved to rely mostly on our sense of vision. Still, the sense of smell remained one of the most…
Biomedia, Design, Digital Culture, News
Event: Istanbul Design Biennial. A School of Schools
On the 22 of September, Istanbul Design Biennial opened its doors to the public and it will run through to November 4th. The fourth edition…