COMMEMORATING MANDELA (5): JAN BEEKMAN: 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... Read more
Author: Borka
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... Read more
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... Read more
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... Read more
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... Read more
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... Read more
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”... Read more
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,... Read more
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... Read more