Open call: The BAD Award 2022, exploring intersections among art, design and the (life)sciences
The Bio Art & Design (BAD) Award* aims to stimulate emerging designers and artists to delve into the world of bio art and design and…
The Bio Art & Design (BAD) Award* aims to stimulate emerging designers and artists to delve into the world of bio art and design and…
Biomedia, Digital Culture, News
The MA Material Futures, Central St Martins, University of the Arts London, presents a series of three evening talks at the intersection of design, biology…
Alba Folgado is the independent curator of Spanish origin who has curated the exhibition The Sharp Edge of Glass in Kaunas and co-curated the International…
Coming from a background in Industrial Design, the California based duo Hank Beyer and Alex Sizemore are working at the borders of Art and Design,…
Contributors, Digital Couture, Op & Ed
Change the system—materials, production, consumption. We can make it better. Sustainability. Quality. Democracy. Inclusion. These words are behind the concept of the creations of fashion…
HeK in Basel is devoted to all art forms that address and reflect upon new media and technologies. HeK features exhibitions, small festival formats, performances…
What we talk about when we talk about architecture is what Gilles Retsin is actually doing. In the era of coding, robots, VR, AR and…
Architectures, Interviews, Key Artists
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…
Architectures, Design, Op & Ed
Dana Anton and Ionut Anton (IDZ arhitectura) have always considered that it is not enough to have beautiful images as a result of a computation…
Biofabricate, Biomedia, Op & Ed
Transdisciplinary, research, creativity, collaboration, bio-… there are just some of the keywords that pop-up very often, maybe too often, when we are talking about contemporary…
The recurrent arguments of immateriality, with its claims for shapeless functions and for information as raw material, continue occurring in a pervasively tangible world: people…
New Silk is a 4 year material research project conducted at Aalto University aiming to produce new types of silk-like materials in the context of…
ELISAVA is a centre specialised in design and engineering located in the center of Barcelona close to Les Rambles attached to the Pompeu Fabra…
In an interview with Studio Drift last year, founders Lonneke Gordijn and Ralph Nauta told us how they interest with science fiction inspired hi-tech developments…
Biomedia, Digital Culture, News
Kapelica Gallery (founded in 1995 in Ljubljana) is one of the reference institutions for contemporary investigative arts worldwide. Their transgressive programme, which consists of…
Architectures, Design, Interviews
Studio Drift was founded in 2007 by Lonneke Gordijn and Ralph Nauta. Their work explores the relationships between humans, nature and technology through a…
3D Printing is an increasingly popular fabrication technique – we are witnessing a multitude of materials, from plastic to bio-resin, machines such as small 3D…
Design, Interviews, Scout & Trends
Over the last couple of years, the fashion and textile industry has taken a great interest in the new possibilities that the biotechnology industry is…
The materials of tomorrow will be smarter, stronger, more dynamic and less ecologically damaging. But how will future materials change the design of our products?…
In 1995, Nicholas Negroponte predicted that “being digital” would have us entering a realm increasingly unconstrained by the materiality of the world he was…