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COMMEMORATING MANDELA (5): JAN BEEKMAN: MANDELA’S CALM

COMMEMORATING MANDELA (5): JAN BEEKMAN: MANDELA’S CALM

COMMEMORATING MANDELA (4) – FREDDY SAM : ‘I AM BECAUSE WE ARE’

COMMEMORATING MANDELA (4) – FREDDY SAM : ‘I AM BECAUSE WE ARE’

FORENSIC ARCHITECTURE AND V&A WILL REPRESENT UK AT LONDON DESIGN BIENNALE 2018, RECONSTRUCTING  ISLAMIC STATE ATROCITIES

FORENSIC ARCHITECTURE AND V&A WILL REPRESENT UK AT LONDON DESIGN BIENNALE 2018, RECONSTRUCTING ISLAMIC STATE ATROCITIES

COMMEMORATING MANDELA (1) – IAN BERRY

COMMEMORATING MANDELA (1) – IAN BERRY

COMMEMORATING MANDELA (3) – MARCO CIANFANELLI’S RELEASE

COMMEMORATING MANDELA (3) – MARCO CIANFANELLI’S RELEASE

Nelson Mandela

COMMEMORATING MANDELA (5): JAN BEEKMAN: MANDELA’S CALM

Posted on April 3, 2022May 3, 2022
JAN BEEKMAN: Nelson MANDELA'S CALM

The portrait that Jan Beekman (1929) painted of Nelson Mandela also occupies a unique and prominent position in his work. Although Beekman had been praised as an excellent portrait painter when young, he did not paint portraits…

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COMMEMORATING MANDELA (4) - FREDDY SAM : ‘I AM BECAUSE WE ARE’ Nelson Mandela
Posted on March 31, 2022May 3, 2022

COMMEMORATING MANDELA (4) – FREDDY SAM : ‘I AM BECAUSE WE ARE’

Street art tribute pieces for Nelson Mandela have been popping up all over the world, especially after his death, but the fact alone that this mural was 10 stories high made it stand out from the rest….

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Forensic Architecture Mapping the Design World
Posted on March 12, 2022

FORENSIC ARCHITECTURE AND V&A WILL REPRESENT UK AT LONDON DESIGN BIENNALE 2018, RECONSTRUCTING ISLAMIC STATE ATROCITIES

Launched in 2016, the Biennale takes place at London’s Somerset House.This year’s edition will see designs from over 35 countries, cities and other territories, spanning six continents. The UK is the latest country to be announced. Other…

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COMMEMORATING MANDELA (1) - IAN BERRY Nelson Mandela
Posted on August 28, 2021May 3, 2022

COMMEMORATING MANDELA (1) – IAN BERRY

The image shows supporters playfully climbing to every vantage point of a billboard whilst awaiting the arrival of Nelson Mandela in a Natal township in South Africa. The billboard shows his giant face, torn but very recognisable….

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nelson mandela Nelson Mandela
Posted on March 29, 2021May 3, 2022

COMMEMORATING MANDELA (3) – MARCO CIANFANELLI’S RELEASE

Release is a monument that marks the site in Natal Midlands where Nelson Mandela was captured by apartheid police in 1962 and sent to 27 years of prison. It was created by Marco Cianfanelli and built in…

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COMMEMORATING MANDELA (2) - VISUALIZING IMPACT | STATESMAN-TERRORIST Nelson Mandela
Posted on March 28, 2021May 3, 2022

COMMEMORATING MANDELA (2) – VISUALIZING IMPACT | STATESMAN-TERRORIST

Visualizing Impact is a Canada- and Lebanon-based international and multidisciplinary laboratory and network of techies, researchers, designers, storytellers, and communication savvies producing visual tools and products at the intersection of data and behavioral sciences, technology and design,…

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REDESIGNING MOBILITY - HANS MONDERMAN Mapping the Design World
Posted on February 20, 2021March 15, 2022

REDESIGNING MOBILITY – HANS MONDERMAN

REDESIGNING MOBILITY | HANS MONDERMAN Hans Monderman was a highly influential, controversial and radical Dutch traffic engineer who pioneered the concept of the “naked street” by removing all the things that are still believed by many to…

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THE LONDON DESIGN MUSEUM HOPE TO NOPE Mapping the Design World
Posted on December 22, 2020March 15, 2022

THE LONDON DESIGN MUSEUM – HOPE TO NOPE

THE LONDON DESIGN MUSEUM | HOPE TO NOPE Starting point for the exhibition were not just he global financial crash of 2008 and its aftermath, but also events such as the Arab Spring and the refugee crisis,…

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bastoy prison Mapping the Design World
Posted on August 23, 2020March 15, 2022

REDESIGNING CRIME RATES – GREETINGS FROM THE WORLD’S NICEST PRISON

  The idyllic Bastøy Island in Norway has been turned into an experimental minimum-security ‘eco prison’, where 115 ‘residents’ -including murderers and rapists- eat organic food, have their own wooden cottages, and can enjoy cross-country skiing, tennis,…

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    Apr 3, 2022
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    Mar 31, 2022
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    Mar 12, 2022
    FORENSIC ARCHITECTURE AND V&A WILL REPRESENT UK AT LONDON DESIGN BIENNALE 2018, RECONSTRUCTING ISLAMIC STATE ATROCITIES
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COMMEMORATING MANDELA (4) – FREDDY SAM : ‘I AM BECAUSE WE ARE’

FORENSIC ARCHITECTURE AND V&A WILL REPRESENT UK AT LONDON DESIGN BIENNALE 2018, RECONSTRUCTING ISLAMIC STATE ATROCITIES

COMMEMORATING MANDELA (1) – IAN BERRY

COMMEMORATING MANDELA (3) – MARCO CIANFANELLI’S RELEASE

COMMEMORATING MANDELA (2) – VISUALIZING IMPACT | STATESMAN-TERRORIST

REDESIGNING MOBILITY – HANS MONDERMAN

THE LONDON DESIGN MUSEUM – HOPE TO NOPE

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    Apr 3, 2022
    COMMEMORATING MANDELA (5): JAN BEEKMAN: MANDELA’S CALM
  • COMMEMORATING MANDELA (4) - FREDDY SAM : ‘I AM BECAUSE WE ARE’
    Mar 31, 2022
    COMMEMORATING MANDELA (4) – FREDDY SAM : ‘I AM BECAUSE WE ARE’
  • Forensic Architecture
    Mar 12, 2022
    FORENSIC ARCHITECTURE AND V&A WILL REPRESENT UK AT LONDON DESIGN BIENNALE 2018, RECONSTRUCTING ISLAMIC STATE ATROCITIES

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