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.
01-12-2022
Sonia Massari: “Designing sustainable food is a job for designers”
So says the Italian researcher, an expert in design thinking applied to the world of food and agriculture: the designer ought to be involved right from the start of the process of creating and producing sustainable food, to ‘join the dots’ and innovate in processes, systems and products. But this systematic vision is precisely what is missing, as designers are entrusted with only...
28-11-2022
People need play to be creative
How do children play outside? And where? This was what Francis Alÿs wondered when, almost by chance, he started filming children playing all over the world, from Afghanistan to the Congo, from Hong Kong to Mexico. The result is a series of powerful, evocative videos, ‘Children’s Games 1999-2022’, screening at Copenhagen Contemporary: a reflection on play in public spaces, its...
24-11-2022
Young designers: signals from the future
Emanuele Ferraro of Atelier Ferraro, Luisa Alpeggiani and Camila Campos of StudioNotte: three designers under 35 just starting out in the profession, with all the hopes and challenges this entails, participated in the most recent Salone Satellite in Milan. We asked them about the signals their sensitive antennae have captured from the future. Though they are each walking a different path, they...
21-11-2022
Materials for design: toward unprejudiced sustainability
A material’s sustainability must always be assessed in the context of processes and systems: it is an enlightened criterion deduced by dialoguing with materials for design with Chiara Rodriquez, president of Materially, a materials research consultancy. Plastic, for example, should not be demonised if considered from this point of view. But there have been many discoveries in this area, and new...