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.
15-12-2022
Julia Lohmann’s redeeming seaweed
Seaweed grows rapidly and has a regenerative impact on the environment: if human beings behaved like seaweed, a lot of our problems would be solved. So says Julia Lohmann, a German designer and professor at Aalto University in Helsinki who has begun an important research project looking at seaweed as a design material. This is the starting point for her all-round reflection on regenerative models...
12-12-2022
A lesson in city design from Toronto: less digital, more common good
Last February, the city of Toronto announced its new plan for urban development of the Quayside district on the Lake Ontario waterfront. Green parks and two acres of urban forests, eight-hundred low-cost housing units, arts centres focusing on indigenous culture and a promise of zero emissions: the proposal submitted by Adjaye Associates, Henning Larsen, Alison Brooks Architects and SLA replaced...
08-12-2022
The body seen in the mirror: fashion and psyche
Why do dolls appear in all cultures and ages, arousing attraction, tenderness, and sometimes even fear? Are avatars the mannequins of the future? Do clothes protect us, or hide us? The exhibition ‘Mirror Mirror – Fashion & the Psyche’ in Antwerp and Ghent attempts to answer these and more questions, demonstrating how fashion not only dresses us up, but reveals a lot about us and...
05-12-2022
Hello, Robot. Design between Human and Machine
Science fiction becomes reality. This is the promise offered by ‘Hello, Robot.’, an exhibition that opened its doors for the first time in 2017 thanks to the joint efforts of the Vitra Design Museum, MAK Vienna and the Design Museum Gent. On 24 September, ‘Hello, Robot. Design between Human and Machine’ reopened to the public, freshly updated and extended, to round off its five-year world...