Mapping the Design World
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…
Mapping the Design World
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…
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
Now that chaos is the new world order, and crisis no longer an exception but the new normal, it’s impossible to predict what the future will hold for the next generation of designers, says State of Design,…
Mapping the Design World
Take Erica for instance. The semi-autonomous android, and the product of JST Erato, the most funded scientific project in Japan. Erica was already 23 in 2015, the year in which she was created. She still had the…
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…
