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.
07-03-2022
Generative design: a new frontier, or the death of creativity?
Artificial intelligence offers all kinds of new opportunities, including the possibility of dominating matter. If we are aware of the properties of a material, we can let software generate the necessary form, achieving a degree of optimisation that would be impossible with conventional methods. This is called generative design, and it could revolutionise our conventional idea of design, in...
03-03-2022
Casa Lana: a lesson (and a poem) by Ettore Sottsass
The living area the architect designed for the home of his typographer and printer friend Giovanni Lana has been reconstructed exactly as it was at the Triennale in Milan: a fluid, casual, perfectly organised interior with plenty of space for art and...
22-02-2022
HOMELESSNESS
John Cary, architect and writer but above all activist, dedicates his energies to the promotion of an ‘Architecture capable of conferring Dignity’ to people who live marginalized and in conditions of extreme difficulty, a stigma that painfully afflicts this our society. Executive director for several years of ‘Public Architecture’, a San Francisco...
09-02-2022
TACTICAL URBANISM
The ambition of reaching an ideal city is improbable but, as underlined by the commission responsible for the exhibition presented by the American Pavilion in 2012, on the occasion of the 13th International Venice Architecture Biennale, a combination of optimism and not only know-how, an effective participatory involvement, a lot of activism and desire to realize something could help to get...