KAROLINA FERENC, new ways for human-nonhuman engagement
What does it mean to be an emotional creature? How do we reconcile the prevailing human-centered design mindset with non-humans? Can lichens love? For…
Biomedia, Interviews, Scout & Trends
ROB St JOHN, experimenting with stillness and emergence
Human impact has caused mass extinctions of animal and plant species and altered the environment in such a way that, according to a paper published…
Computing Art, Interviews, Scout & Trends
HANNA HAASLAHTI, on gestalt psychology and computer vision
Hanna Haaslahti is a media artist based in Helsinki (Finland). With a background in photography and set design, her work encompasses interactive installations, projections…
Design, Interviews, Scout & Trends
SARAH DAHER, sending messages through the air by releasing chemical molecules
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, exploring issues around our day-to-day life
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…
KAREN MIRANDA ABEL, bringing water ecologies from nature to the gallery
In times when the techno-metropolitan environments (where most of us live nowadays) seem to have disconnected us from our earthy habitats and their seasonalities,…
Design, Interviews, Scout & Trends
AGI HAINES, bioprinting organs for a better future
Transdisciplinary designer and PhD researcher at Cognovo, Agi Haines, is investigating the potential of the human body as a raw material for our design…
MARIAH WRIGHT, using design to reflect on what is arounds us
In times where our environment feels threatened, designers look, interpret, question and speculate about novel improved futures. For Mariah Wright, her explorations lay at the…
NESTOR PESTANA, exploring possibilities of utopian and dystopian futures
Systematically exploring predictions and possibilities of utopian and dystopian futures, recent graduate of MA Design Interactions at the RCA, Nestor Pestana, creates speculative scenarios…
Biomedia, Interviews, Scout & Trends
SONJA BÄUMEL, investigating the invisible diversity of the human body
Art, design, fashion and biological practice are some of the words that define the creative universe of Sonja Bäumel. Living and working in Amsterdam,…
Design, Interviews, Scout & Trends
TIM CLARK, imagining future visions of alternative energies and flight
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…
Design, Interviews, Scout & Trends
JAIME TAI, building facts and ideas into tangible multi-layered scenarios
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…
Interviews, Scout & Trends, Sound
YOSHIMASA KATO, colliding neurobiology, sound art and kinetic sculpture
Dr. Yoshimasa Kato is a japanese artist, whose work spans from sound and media art to kinetic light sculpture. CLOT Magazine came across his…
CHRISTIANA KAZAKOU, connectioning sound, psychoanalysis, and scientific theories
Christiana Kazakou is a multidisciplinary artist based in London. Member of Random Order collective her artistic work makes connections between sound, psychoanalysis, art and…
ZOE HOUGH, blending the boundaries between science, politics, society
Speculative designer and artist Zoë Hough is blending the boundaries between science, politics, society and art to stimulate debate and reflection around issues regarding…
SABRINA OSBORNE, blending concerns of identity, belonging, and loss
Beautiful, unsettling and disturbing are some of the words the come to my mind to describe the creative universe of Sabrina Osborne’s art. Indian…
MARTYNKA WAWRZYNIAK, the artist as both subject and investigator
Martynka Wawrzyniak is a New York-based artist who works in a wide range of media such as photography, video, performance, sculpture and installation. One…
Design, Interviews, Scout & Trends
MARLENE HUISSOUD, recycling waste into new materials
Recycling waste into new materials and products is one of the most favourable actions that we are willing to do in order to be…
ALEXANDRA KEHAYOGLOU, using raw materials to weave pastizales
My first exposure to Alexandra’s work was at Dries Van Noten Spring 2015 RTW Fashion Show. Based in Argentina and with an intense cultural…
Design, Interviews, Scout & Trends
ELLA BULLEY, transforming raw materials into crafted artefacts
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…