Biofabricate, Design, Interviews, Series
Massive hunting, fishing, agriculture, brought to scale by the industrial revolution and technological advances, have altered the environment and the atmosphere. Human beings have polluted…
BIOFABRICATE is the annual conference that brings together critical thinking and design to challenge both what we know and how we use materials. The…
Design, Interviews, Key Artists, Thinkers
In opposition to the narrow role of consumer-driven design in the development of existing and emerging technologies, design duo Anthony Dunne and Fiona Raby…
A theme continuing to weave through the work of Thought Collider, the experimental critical art and design duo, Mike Thompson and Susana Cámara Leret, examines…
Design, Interviews, Scout & Trends
Interdisciplinary designer Sarah Daher explores the relationships between humans, nature and technology and imagines future scenarios in which humans in which humans will engage with…
Design, Interviews, Scout & Trends
Jinhee Park is a designer and artist, student from RCA Design Interactions MA, whose designs explore issues around our day-to-day life. Memory and perception are…
Design, Interviews, Scout & Trends
Transdisciplinary designer and PhD researcher at Cognovo, Agi Haines, is investigating the potential of the human body as a raw material for our design…
Carole Collet has been fascinated with synthetic biology since she had the privilege to work with Sir John Sulston in 2007. Researcher, designer, and…
Design, Interviews, Scout & Trends
The term technophillia refers to one’s enthusiasm or passion for new technologies, taken literally from Greek technē, meaning art, craft or skill and philos, meaning…
Architectures, Design, Interviews
Hurricanes, earthquakes, tsunamis, heat waves, droughts, tornadoes and eruptions are commonly known as natural disasters for most people, but what if it’s a cry…
Design, Interviews, Scout & Trends
Central Saint Martins MA Material Futures graduate and designer-researcher hybrid, Jaime Tai, is blurring the boundaries between design and science, building facts and ideas into tangible…
Speculative design, closely related to critical design, explores new roles for design in relation to the cultural landscape’s influence on existing and emerging technologies,…
Design, Interviews, Scout & Trends
Recycling waste into new materials and products is one of the most favourable actions that we are willing to do in order to be…
Miriam Simun is a research-based artist blurring the boundaries between art and social change: ecological, historical and technical. One of the central axis of her…
I met Meital Tzabari —Israeli London-based furniture and product designer and maker— at the Designersblock exhibition during London Design Festival 2014. There she showed me…
Laura Daza is not only a designer and an artist but also a colour hunter and maker. Colombian-born but living and working in London I…
Many everyday products —plastics, inks, vaseline or cosmetics— are made of petroleum, a fossil made up of refined crude oil which has a negative…
Design, Interviews, Scout & Trends
Saccharum officinarum (sugarcane) is a perennial grass cultivated to produce sugar and other raw materials. Most of us when we see the sugarcane think of…
Design, Interviews, Scout & Trends
Yael Levin is a jewellery designer living and working in Tel-Aviv (Israel) who uses the human body as inspiration. Yael explores materials combining forms,…
Christina Agapakis —biologist and artist— explores new scenarios in order to question the relationship between humans and bacteria. Human microbes, evolutionary biology, cheese and scent are…