Event: The Planet as Festival by Terraforma Festival at Museo MACRO in Rome
The Planet as Festival is a new project by the people behind Terraforma. It takes its name and inspiration from Ettore Sottsass’s iconic series from…
Art intervention: Katarzyna Krakowiak’s ‘It begins with one word. Choose your own’ at Mies van der Rohe Pavilion
Artist Katarzyna Krakowiak creates sculptures, sounds, sound compositions and situations, all of them to find languages to describe architecture. Her latest project is a new…
Architectures, Interviews, Scout & Trends
SAGA Space Architects, on a mission to the equidistant between moon and earth
Two figures are walking through a vast scenery. Diffuse light sheds a gleam over the featureless territory. Packed up inside puffy white suits their walk…
STUDIO FORMAFANTASMA, the importance of environmental awareness translated into design
What is most striking about Studio Formafantasma, is their incredible inclination to wonder at the natural world and it’s biological, chemical, physical processes and –…
‘Same cities?! With new apertures!’ by Simona Serban
Judging from the current global situation, our environment, due to one of the most unexpected of circumstances, gets a breather, the breather it so desperately…
Interviews, Robotics & Kinetics
COLLECTIF SCALE, immersive sonic landscapes bathed in dancing lights
Spanning a wide variety of creative and professional backgrounds, Collectif Scale is a Paris-based multidisciplinary collective, composed of young artists and technicians, whose work revolves…
‘Everything might be alright. Emergencies and their perception, a veduta from Venice’ by Pietro Consolandi
Before the explosion If a genie from the future had visited Venice just a few weeks ago, showing images of an empty Piazza San Marco…
YUGE ZHOU, on the intricacies of human interactions, connections, isolations and longing across urban and natural environments
Yuge Zhou is a Chicago-based artist, art director and curator whose work focuses on the complex intricacies of human interactions and behaviours. Zhou has a…
‘There is no place like home’ by Flavio Martella and Atxu Amann y Alcocer
The coronavirus, for the nations that reacted with the quarantine, provoked what was considered impossible: the (temporary) disappearance of the material public sphere. In a…
‘Notes from the Underworld’ by Stefano Corbo
In 1638, seven years after Mount Vesuvius erupted, the Jesuit scholar Athanasius Kircher traveled to Naples and climbed the volcano that had just caused the…
Architectures, Interviews, Key Artists
PHILIP BEESLEY, the divine technology
From the Buddhist concept of completeness in Nirvana to James Hilton’s Shangri La, a utopian place of perfection, to the biblical depiction of heaven, to…
Architectures, News, STATE Studio
Exhibition: ‘The Primordial Cities Initiative’ at STATE Studio Berlin
STATE Studio Berlin is presenting their last exhibition of the year this week. Opening on the 12th December, The Primordial Cities Initiative by artist and…
AI & A.Life, Architectures, Biomedia, News
Biennial: 26th Biennial of Design BIO 26| Common Knowledge in Ljubljana
From November 14, 2019, to February 9, 2020, at the Museum of Architecture and Design (MAO) in Ljubljana takes place the 26th Biennial of Design…
AI & A.Life, Architectures, Biomedia, News
Talk: “Oceans in Crisis” by TBA21-Academy at the Royal Academy of Arts
As part of the programme of the current Royal Academy of Arts (London) exhibition Eco-visionaries, TBA21-Academy is organising the panel discussion Oceans in Crisis with architects Territorial Agency (John…
AI & A.Life, Architectures, Biomedia, News
Exhibition: ‘Future and the Arts: AI, Robotics, Cities, Life – How Humanity Will Live Tomorrow’
Mori Art Museum opened in 2003 at the top of the central Mori Tower – a place visible from throughout Tokyo and since then is…
Insight: ‘Aether 2.0’ by Architecture Social Club
Architecture Social Club is a design collective working at the intersection of digital, art, architecture, and engineering that was set up by Satyajit Das. Trained…
Architectures, News, Robotics & Kinetics
Event: Norman Foster Foundation Robotics Atelier
How will robots influence the future of design processes and the built environment? This question sums up the idea behind the third edition of the…
Programme: The Terraforming 2020 by Strelka Institute
Strelka Institute is a non-governmental institution founded in 2009 in Moscow offering multidisciplinary education in media, architecture, and design. Its academic programmes on urban planning…
Architectures, Interviews, Key Artists
JENNY E. SABIN, crossing boundaries in architecture research collaboration
When we think to Jenny E. Sabin, we think about the background and ambitions that have cross boundaries in research collaboration. Her extraordinary motivation drove…
Festival: ‘ecocinema’ at TAXISPALAIS (Innsbruck, Austria)
In today’s age of ecological crisis, can we find an optimistic and empathetic way of engaging with our environment? To shed our human-centric attitudes and…