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…
Exhibition: ‘Olafur Eliasson: In real life’ at Tate Modern
Olafur Eliasson is a Danish-Icelandic artist who, through his art, aims to raise awareness about environmental and social crises. His work ranges across various media…
Insight: Aldo Sollazzo and Laura Civetti on Reshape Competition
RESHAPE is an international platform promoting emerging talents and innovative solutions that operates at the meeting point between technology and social change, driven by innovation…
Launch: MOGU 100% biodegradable Acoustic Panels
MOGU is an innovative, eco-friendly company that is completely changing the face of product design. Its core belief is that Nature is the best designer…
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…