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.
30-11-2021
RE-THINKING URBAN PUBLIC SPACES
Perhaps never before as in this period the city has been at the center of the unanimity of reflections and re-evaluations, partly caused by the need to find adaptive strategies facing climate change and migratory flows, and partly due to a pandemic that has shaken certainties, questioning life and work’s usual...
16-11-2021
RE-THINKING TROPICAL CITY: HIGH RISES - WOHA
"They took all the trees, put 'em in a tree museum, And they charged the people a dollar and a half just to see ‘em Don't it always seem to go, That you don't know what you've got 'til it's gone? They paved paradise and Put up a parking lot" - Joni...
02-11-2021
RE-THINKING CITY : HOUSING
“To approach a city, or even a city neighborhood, as if it were a larger architectural problem, capable of being given order by converting it into a disciplined work of art, is to make the mistake of attempting to substitute art for life. The results of such profound confusion between art and life are neither life nor art. They are taxidermy. In its place, taxidermy can be a useful and...
19-10-2021
RE-BIRTHS
"There were already discussions about the landfill and I thought: very well, contemporary art makes people talk, let's add controversy to controversy"-Renzo Macelloni, Mayor of Peccioli