Design&Trends
In recent decades, design has contaminated a number of sectors of creative work. This series focuses on the scenarios of future trends, investigating their infinite expressive potential through issues of contemporary relevance and discussions with international designers. A window on the future, to understand and describe how much the world of design is changing, from techniques to new materials, from interiors to installations, from experimentation to contamination with art. In the final analysis, a section all about forecasting and trendsetting in design.
30-09-2022
Arttenders: combining art with business and social planning
Arttenders is an eclectic young social design agency opened in Rotterdam in 2015 by the enterprising Siobhan Burger and Faye Ellen. Their goal is to create spaces (physical and virtual) for cultural action that are financially sustainable, forging bonds between business and the world of art through co-participation and socialisation of...
29-09-2022
Where beauty lives: the ‘piano nobile’ or main floor of Fondazione Rovati
An exemplary case of co-penetration of domestic space, furnishings, coverings, objects and artworks: the main floor of Fondazione Luigi Rovati in Milan is now a museum, in which every single element – from the woodwork to the chimneys, from the windows to the niches in the walls – has an osmotic relationship with the art on display, ancient, modern and contemporary....
27-09-2022
Artificial intelligence applied to architecture: a research project by Stephen Coorlas
Stephen Coorlas, an American architect hailing from Chicago, has recently published a theoretical project probing the generative capabilities of Midjourney, a piece of artificial intelligence software which can transform words into images. ‘Speculations on AI and Architecture’, as the project is known, investigates the state of the art of computer technology for architecture with a view to...
22-09-2022
Patricia Urquiola’s hybrids in Capodimonte
Ropes, moss, flowers and sponges, bark and cotton are the alternative materials Patricia Urquiola and the students of Istituto Caselli in Capodimonte incorporate in the porcelain that was the pride of the Bourbons, creating objects and centrepieces of unprecedented modernity. A creative spark ignited with Edit Napoli to reawaken the spirit of an illustrious tradition which has always had a lot to...