Disegno #32

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The cover of Disegno #32.

Content incoming: the new print edition of Disegno, The Quarterly Journal of Design, is now available to order!

Disegno #32 comes out in print on 7 April 2021 and is available to order now. If you’re technologically inclined, you can order a digital copy for convenience, while we also offer personal and gift subscriptions to the physical journal.

The new issue of the journal is filled with a selection of essays, photography and interviews, drawn from all around the world. Exploring new projects, current affairs and the discipline’s various sociopolitical entanglements, these stories show why design matter to the world at large.

Oli Stratford and Ramak Fazel explore Emeco House, a new space developed inside a former sewing workshop in Venice, Los Angeles, by the architect David Saik, which reveals the many virtues of building slow.

Mitzi Okou and Sade Fasanya delve into Before Yesterday We Could Fly, a new Afrofuturist period room at the Met, as part of a roundtable featuring designers Hannah Beachler, Ini Archibong and Jomo Tariku, as well as curators Sarah E. Lawrence and Abraham Thomas.

India Block and Jim Stephenson make the trip out to East Quay, a community space in Watchet, southwest England that is designed to revitalise the town’s postindustrial fortunes.

Aki Ishida and Noritaka Minami stay over in the Nakagin Capsule Tower, Tokyo’s landmark work of metabolism architecture that has reached physical and conceptual obsolescence at the same time.

Oli Stratford and Fabian Frinzel get to know Plusminus, a new lighting system from Stefan Diez for Vibia that replaces concealed wires with a conductive textile ribbon.

The pioneering feminist architecture collective Matrix meet with curator Viviane Stappmann to discuss their work in creating intersectional, community-focused spaces in 1980s London.

Rupal Rathore and Philippe Calia chart the history and present of Mumabi’s historic chawls, a housing typology now scheduled to be razed as part of one of the biggest redevelopment projects in Asia.

And architects Space Popular meet with philosopher David Chalmers to discuss how we can conceptualise and design for virtual spaces.

Disegno #32 comes out in print on 7 April 2022, and is available to order now.

Disegno #32 includes:

Timeline
November 2021 to March 2022 in review

Emeco Abides
A Venice Beach sewing factory reimagined
Oli Stratford and Ramak Fazel

The Whole Tapestry
The making of the Met’s time-travelling Afrofuturist period room
Mitzi Okie and Sade Fasanya

Onions Have Layers
Social-enterprise-on-sea in post-industrial Watchet
India Block and Jim Stephenson

Obsolete Masculinity
The rise and fall of Tokyo’s Nakagin Capsule Tower
Aki Ishida and Noritaka Minami

The Electric Ribbon Trick
A magician’s guide to lighting
Oli Stratford and Fabian Frinzel

Enter the Matrix
London's 1970s feminist architecture collective gets déjà vu
Viviane Stappmanns

The Making and Razing of Mumbai’s Chawls
Portrait of a Mumbai institution on the brink
Rupal Rathore and Philippe Calia

Design for the Real[v] World
Space Popular follows David Chalmers into the metaverse
Space Popular (Fredrik Hellberg and Lara Lesmes)

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