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
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…
ELISAVA is a centre specialised in design and engineering located in the center of Barcelona close to Les Rambles attached to the Pompeu Fabra…
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
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
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
“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
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…
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 was founded in 2007 by Lonneke Gordijn and Ralph Nauta. Their work explores the relationships between humans, nature and technology through a…
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
In the past couple of years the discipline of material innovation has seen an increasing number of interdisciplinary collaborations which are producing new exciting…
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
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…
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
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
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…
Open Cell, a community-led-non-profit creative space, opened its door with the Biodesign Here Now festival on the 19th of September as part of the London…
They say smell is one of the most powerful evocative of the senses. Memories seem intricately bounded to certain smalls and vice-versa. Frieze Academy…
Design, Digital Couture, Digital Culture, News
Arcade East, London College of Fashion’s new project space, was developed to host a themed season of events and installations with a focus on…