Mapping the Design World
Celebrating Freespace – The Venice Architecture Biennale Opening this weekend, and entitled Freespace, the 16th edition of the world’s greatest architectural exhibition, the Venice Biennale of Architecture, is co-curated by Yvonne Farrell and Shelley McNamara, founders of…
Mapping the Design World
MoMA DEVOTES ITS FIRST SOLO SHOW EVER OF A BLACK AFRICAN ARTIST TO BODYS ISEK KINGELEZ Better late than never: on May 26 MoMA New York will open its first-ever solo show of a Black African Artist,…
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A HOUSE FOR EVERYONE? VISITING JEAN PROUVÉ’S MAISON TROPICALE AT KANAL BRUSSELS Whereas the newly opened Kanal arts centre in the Belgian capital Brussels is denounced by its critics as just another example of cultural neo-colonialism, because…
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GETTING HAPPY WITH STEFAN SAGMEISTER Have a look at some snapshots of The Happy Show, the traveling exhibition in which one of the world’s most celebrated communication designers, Stefan Sagmeister went on the search for happiness, and…
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REFUGIUM (BERLIN AS A DESIGN PRINCIPLE) Here are some snapshots of Refugium (Berlin as a Design Principle), an event cum exhibition which I curated in 2013 at Tempelhof, as part of DMY-Berlin and the Berlin Design Week….
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VIOLATING OBJECTS: CUBAS’ TECHNOLOGICAL DISOBEDIENCE Now that the last Castro stepped down as president of the council of state and council of ministers in Cuba, and an era seems to have come one step closer toward its…
Mapping the Design World
KONGJIAN YU & TURENSCAPE’S RED RIBBON PARK: ALONG CELEBRATION PATH Kongjian Yu and his Beijing based studio Turenscape won last year’s World Landscape of The Year award with Peasants and their Land, a project in which they…
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FORENSIC ARCHITECTURE AND V&A WILL REPRESENT UK AT LONDON DESIGN BIENNALE 2018, RECONSTRUCTING ISLAMIC STATE ATROCITIES The Victoria and Albert (V&A) Museum in London has been announced as the curator of the UK entry and at London…
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JORIS LAARMAN’S REVOLUTIONARY 3D-PRINTED AND ROBOT BUILT BRIDGE IS READY Robots come to finalize the structure of the world’s first 3D-printed metal bridge in Amsterdam. Designed by Dutch designer Joris Laarman’s lab and devised by his Amsterdam-based…
