Symposium: ‘Dis/Assembly of Performative Things’, performance as a strategy
The Dis/Assembly of Performative Things is dedicated to performance as a strategy for designers to question their discipline, the contexts it operates in as well…
Architectures, Design, Interviews
NOHLAB STUDIO, creating immersive design stories for the modern world
Design in our contemporary world dives into a pool of interdisciplinary and creative platforms; on this note, Nohlab studio is a multidisciplinary design studio focused…
‘Toward Speculative World-Makings’ by Tuçe Erel
Language has been granted too much power. The linguistic turn, the semiotic turn, the interpretative turn, the cultural turn: it seems that at every turn…
AI & A.Life, Interviews, Robotics & Kinetics
EMANUEL GOLLOB, doing nothing with artificial intelligence
Emanuel Gollob is an Austrian artist who uses artificial intelligence to make his audience “do nothing”. The idea behind the project is the sensation that…
Insight: ‘Habitate’, a material that mimics the biostructure of the ash tree’s bark
In 2015, the leading thinker and philosopher of science Donna Haraway wrote in Anthropocene, Capitalocene, Plantationocene, Chthulucene: Making Kin, Who and whatever we are, we…
Insight: 3D art evoking emotion by breaking the law of physics
Hussain Almossawi is a CG artist, director, and product designer based in Brooklyn, New York. He is the Mossawi Studios founder, a multi-disciplinary studio working…
Insight: FLESH, Daniel Solomons’ piece of art inspired by Mae Maze’s visual and conceptual references
For Mae Maze London, the aim is to be more than a fashion brand. And one way to do this is by working in collaboration…
PASCAL SMELIK, an incursion into frozen design and nature
Studio Pascal Smelik – studio for site-specific and custom-made object design – is a studio founded by Pascal Smelik in 2010, where he practices his…
Insight: NEO, a synthesis of the arts in menswear fashion
The presentation of fashion is never just about the clothes. In the eighties, the models used to dance to music on the runways, in recent…
Insight: How digital artists are creating online galleries with HUAWEI Themes
Change and adaptation are the only constants in our lives, and experimentation at all levels is the motor of creativity. Both acceleration and transformation in…
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…
TOBIAS GREMMLER, morphing the visual uniqueness of movement and rhythm
Texture. Colour. Material. Light. Movement. Sound. One morphing from another, seamlessly coming together. Suggestive. Empathetic. Delicate. Strong. Seductive. Impossible to separate all these instances. An…
ANNIKE FLO, scenographic perspectives of the Anthropocene
Annike Flo takes part in one of the expanding new branches of design which interacts with science and technology in order to make sense of…