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.
18-11-2022
The future is present at The Design Museum Denmark
Climate change, mass migration, pandemics, the frantic overconsumption of resources: will the world we live in have any future to speak of? The answer is here in the form of an exhibition by Pernille Stockmarr, curator of the Design Museum Denmark, centred around a series of open questions about how people have approached the future throughout history, along with a series of reflections arising...
17-11-2022
Threads, weaves, intertwining: textiles become art at Miniartextil
The thirty-sixth edition of Miniartextil is underway in Como, one of the world’s best-known exhibitions of fibre art: a special art form based on textile materials and techniques. Along with 54 extraordinary little works of art – no larger than a cube measuring 20 cm per side – the exhibition also features oversized artworks, all centring around the title theme: Rosa...
14-11-2022
Portal of Light, Emilio Ferro’s installation in front of the Giza Pyramids
Portal of Light, created by Italian light artist Emilio Ferro as part of the exhibition Forever is Now 2, organised by Culturvator / Art D'Égypte with UNESCO, is the first light installation ever to be created at the foot of the Giza Pyramids. Light, sound and sculpture come together to create a unique immersive experience, taking spectators along a path traversing history and space on a...
10-11-2022
Ernesto Oroza: “There’s no such thing as neutral design”
From his Cuban origins and the experience of crisis that engulfed the Caribbean island in the nineties to his career inspired by Italian radical design, Ernesto Oroza, artist and designer, professor and researcher at ESADSE - École Supérieure d’Art et Design de Saint-Étienne, talked to BASE Milano about his militant vision of design, an essential part of which is a...