Mapping the Design World
‘Form Follows Foco, 100 Snapshots Of Guerilla Survival Props’, was the second Mapping The Design World publication, launched during the Mapping Toolbox exhibition at Walking Chair Gallery in Vienna, in October 2013.
Mapping the Design World
URBAN INTERVENTIONISTS What made Roadsworth’s work stand out from that of most other graffiti artists was that his focus was on the streets’ surface, and not on the walls surrounding them. It all had to do with…
Mapping the Design World
„It was even a surprise to us to be invited,” McNamara’s and Farrell say, “and that’s putting it mildly“. The working relationship of the female architectural duo goes back to the early 70s when they were students…
Mapping the Design World
In Europe, Bodys Isek Kingelez (1948–2015) already became an instant sensation when his work was included in the landmark exhibition Magiciens de la Terre at Paris’s Centre Pompidou in 1989. Since then, his work has been in…
Mapping the Design World
Many reasons converged to include the Tropical House by the pioneering French architect and designer Jean Prouvé in Kanal Brut, the inaugural presentation of Kanal, before the renovation starts in 2019. The Centre Pompidou had the huge…
Mapping the Design World
Sagmeister and me have at least one thing in common: the late Tibor Kalman is our one and only design hero. And walking through The Happy Show, which got its kick off at the Institute of Contemporary…
Max Borka
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….
Mapping the Design World
The term Technological Disobedience was coined by the Cuban artist and designer Ernesto Oroza to summarize the unique way in which his compatriots relate to technology. According to Oroza, the average Cuban -pressured and constrained by a…
Mapping the Design World
Like other cities in China, Qinhuangdao is experiencing fast growth. The new park which Turenscape and its founder/president Kongjian Yu were asked to create had to answer the need for recreation of its burgeoning community. When the…
