Insight: Beyer and Sizemore’s speculative material research ‘For the Rest of Us’
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
‘A look into the lab of innovative fashion creation’ by Maren Häußermann
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…
Exhibition: ‘Making FASHION Sense’ at HeK in Basel
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…
GILLES RETSIN, reinterpreting the digital through architecture
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
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…
Architectures, Design, Op & Ed
IDZ arhitectura and the architectural artefacts in digital technology by Adriana Ciotau
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
Maurizio Montalti and MOGU, bringing the biotechnological revolution, by Živa Brglez
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…
Matter Still Matters (in The Immaterial Age), by Silvia Pizzocaro
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: Exploring design-science collaboration for new materials’, Kirsi Niinimäki, Camilla Groth & Pirjo Kääriäinen
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…
Editor’s Pick: ‘Temes de Disseny’, by ELISAVA Barcelona School of Design and Engineering
ELISAVA is a centre specialised in design and engineering located in the center of Barcelona close to Les Rambles attached to the Pompeu Fabra…
Exhibition: ‘Elemental’ by Studio Drift at Amos Rex
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
Exhibition: ‘MoRFES’ by Maria Yablonina at Kapelica Gallery
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, sculpting the relationship between humans and nature
Studio Drift was founded in 2007 by Lonneke Gordijn and Ralph Nauta. Their work explores the relationships between humans, nature and technology through a…
Insight: Soliquid, experimenting with new morphologies
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
CHRISTINA HAXHOLM, exploring ideological forecasts for the future
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…
Exhibition: ‘Material Far Futures’ at The Future Laboratory
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?…
Architectures, Design, News, Scout & Trends
Talk: ‘Blending the Digital and the Material: current trends in fashion, design and material innovation’ Soho House BCN
In 1995, Nicholas Negroponte predicted that “being digital” would have us entering a realm increasingly unconstrained by the materiality of the world he was…
Design, Interviews, Scout & Trends
LOUIS ALDERSON-BYTHELL, a dichotomy of inspiration with biology and fashion design
Fashion: a reflection of our times, politics, showcase of individuality. Follow it or not, fashion is inescapable for the mere fact that everyone wears…
Competition: RESHAPE18 | sensing materialities
Update: Reshape18| sensing materialities competition extend its closing deadline from August 31st to September 7th 2018 A design competition on new materialities…
Computing Art, Interviews, Scout & Trends
NAGAMI DESIGN, crossing borders beyond imagination
Many know Ávila as small medieval town in the west of Spain known the world over for its iconic Romanesque walls. Now, Ávila will also…