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.
11-08-2022
The US government, road design and traffic victims
Human fallibility should not lead to human fatalities, recites the simple motto adopted by the US Department of Transportation, emphasising responsible design of infrastructure, vehicles and regulations. On the basis of the assumption that to err is human, this shift in focus, already successfully applied in Sweden, could reduce the significant number of traffic fatalities that take place every...
04-08-2022
Mondrian Evolution, a Fondation Beyeler exhibition celebrating the 150th anniversary of the artist’s birth
To celebrate the 150th anniversary of the birth of Piet Mondrian and the twenty-fifth anniversary of its own establishment, Fondation Beyeler in the Swiss town of Riehen has organised a major monographic exhibition covering the evolution of the Dutch master’s artistic career, from The Hague School to the geometric extremes of Neoplasticism, in eighty-nine artworks exhibited in nine different...
28-07-2022
Space Bubbles: an MIT project to restrict global warming
A group of researchers, including Carlo Ratti of the Senseable City Lab at MIT, is looking into the possibility of using ‘space bubbles’ as a tool to combat the planet’s rising temperatures in the years to come. A geoengineering project that would not directly alter the Earth’s surface, setting it apart from all the other potential options considered by the United Nations thus...
21-07-2022
Hospitals, design and light: functionalism or empathy?
Medicine has come a long way over the past century and a half: from bleeding to magnetic resonance diagnostics. And hospital design has evolved in parallel, from Florence Nightingale’s theory of light to the functionalism of the period after the First World War and today’s recognition of the importance of patient-centred design....