Mapping the Design World
INSIDE THE SVALBARD GLOBAL SEED VAULT, AND WHY THE WORLD’S MOST IMPORTANT ROOM MIGHT BE UNDER THREAT With biodiversity dramatically decreasing due to a global monoculturing of agriculture , the circa 1750 gene banks or ‘crop diversity’…
Max Borka
SINKING BUT SINGING – ON THE FUTURE OF DESIGN This is a large text on the future of design which we wrote in 2016 for the catalogue of the 25th anniversary edition of the Biennale Interieur, Kortrijk,…
Mapping the Design World
MEET HIROSHI ISHIGURO, THE WORLD’S MOST FAMOUS AND CONTROVERSIAL ROBOT DESIGNER Will there soon come a time when robots will not just mimic men but also become their equals and even surpass them? The radically optimistic bad…
Mapping the Design World
MISCHER’TRAXLER- AND WHAT IF WE TURNED MACHINES INTO TREES OR CONVERSATION PIECES? How can you convince a machine to socialize? And how can you bring it in step with nature? Questions like these brought the famous Vienna…
Max Borka
NULLPUNKT, NIEUWE GERMAN GESTALTUNG – FLOATING IN LIQUID LOGIC Have a look at the pictures, and read our introduction to the catalogue of Nullpunkt, Nieuwe German Gestaltung, an exhibition which we curated at the invitation of Jan…
Mapping the Design World
RAUMLABOR (2) – HOTEL SHABBY SHABBY On April 17 Jan Liesegang of the Berlin-based collective Raumlabor will be giving a talk at the Brussels Centre for Fine Arts, within the context of the collective’s participation in this…
Mapping the Design World
RAUMLABOR (1) – MAKING THE SUBWAY SING On April 17 Jan Liesegang of the Berlin-based collective Raumlabor will be giving a talk at the Brussels Centre for Fine Arts, within the context of its participation in this…
Max Borka
MERGING SIGHT AND TOUCH – KOSUKE TAKAHASHI’S BRAILLE NEUE Sometimes, good design can still be as simple as 1+1= 3 – killing two proverbial birds with one stone, and adding lots of extra value that makes the…
Nelson Mandela
COMMEMORATING MANDELA (5): JAN BEEKMAN: MANDELA’S CALM On July 18 it will be a century ago that Nelson Mandela was born in Umtata, then part of South Africa’s Cape Province. On December 5 it will be exactly…
