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…
Soomi Park is a multimedia artist based in London and Seoul who uses wearable devices and sensors to create installations focused on human emotions, desires…
Architectures, Design, Interviews
Designers Francesca Lanzavecchia and Hunn Wai are the founders of Lanzavecchia + Wai, a stunning creative design studio based in Pavia (Italy) and Singapore….
Designer, teacher, writer, lecturer, innovator and global nomad —born in Canada and raised in Montreal, New York, New Orleans, Scotland and London— Sass Brown…
Design, Interviews, Scout & Trends
Bioartist Jalila Essaïdi has always been inspired by stories. Stories about safety, vulnerability and silk spiders. Stories about using silk in combat. Stories about…
Design, Interviews, Scout & Trends
Zimbabwe-born and London-based Natsai Audrey Chieza is a designer, researcher and futurist bringing a new perspective to design that encompasses science and technology. Her conceptual work,…
Amy Congdon’s —London-based designer— bespoke biological textiles employ speculative design to inspire and provoke critical thinking. Congdon uses design to produce conceptual work that helps us imagine…
Susana Soares —Portuguese-born, English-based artist— employs design to promote and provoke critical thinking about the implications and ethical consequences of scientific research in our lives. Soares uses design as…
Design, Interviews, Key Artists
Fashion is a visual language that has an intimate relationship with people and helps define their identity and the communities in which they live. Since the…