Disegno #34
The cover of Disegno #34.
The September issue is here! After months of screaming at hard-working assistants, Disegno’s editorial team is proud to announce that the autumn 2022 edition of The Quarterly Journal of Design is now available for pre-order.
Disegno #34 hits newsstands on 19 September 2022, coinciding with this year’s London Design Festival. But if you’d like to sort out a copy now, it’s already available to pre-order through our online shop.
‘One Startup’s Trash’, Disegno #34.
Combining photoessays, reportage, comment and illustration, the new issue ranges across architecture, fashion, product design and theory, exploring the field’s sociopolitical implications and current industrial realities.
The new issue sees Disegno’s founder Johanna Agerman Ross travel to La Grange, Erwan Bouroullec’s Burgundy farm, whose renovation has pushed its designer towards a new understanding of design and its implications.
India Block and Jango Jim dive into architecture’s nascent unionisation movement, speaking to architectural workers from across the UK and USA about how the pandemic and Black Lives Matter movement have shifted the status quo.
‘United by Design’, Disegno #34.
Rupal Rathore and Rebecca Conway pay a visit to Auroville, the utopian town in southern India whose community has split down the middle as they debate the best way to fulfil the spiritual masterplan left behind by architect Roger Anger.
Sophie Tolhurst stops by Weird Sensation Feels Good at London’s Design Museum, and reflects on whether design is the best lens through which to explore internet culture and other forms of practice that sit outside of the traditional design industries.
Oli Stratford and Theresa Marx get to grips with Forward, a new needle-punched material from Nike, and grapple with its aspirations towards environmentalism.
‘Politically Erect’, Disegno #34.
Ria Robert and Alastair Philip Wiper explore Denmark’s Worlds Best condom factory, and examine contraception in light of rising threats toward bodily autonomy.
Aastha D chairs a discussion around queerness as a form of architectural refusal, drawing together practitioners, activists and theorists from across the LGBTQ+ community to reflect on queer’s capacity to transform spatial understanding.
And we also share the results of Design Drafts, a new programme and publication created in conjunction with Het Nieuwe Instituut that promotes experimental writing from new voices within design criticism and practice.
Disegno #34 comes out in print on 19 September 2022, and is available to order now.
Disegno #34 includes:
Timeline
June to August 2022 in review
Learning from Failure
Second time lucky for Ineke Hans
Ineke Hans and Leonhard Rothmoser
Politically Erect
Condom production in the maelstrom of the 2020s
Ria Robert and Alastair Philip Wiper
Essential Forms
Julien Renault’s Netflix classic café collection
Oli Stratford and Fabian Frinzel
One Startup’s Trash
Canal-dredged design
India Block and Fabian Frinzel
The Everywhere Chair
The irresistible rise of the Tolix Chaise A
Brendan Cormier and Philippe Thibault
Delft Blue Rhymes with Fake Handbags
Eighteenth-century pottery meets knock-off Gucci
Tetsuo Mukai and Leonhard Rothmoser
Is Design Just a Game?
New voices in design writing
Bianca Nozaki-Nasser, Chinouk Filique de Miranda, Gijs de Boer, Kathryn Larsen and Malika Leiper
Queer Refusal
Architecture as a site of disobedience
Aastha D, Adam Nathaniel Furman, Dhiren Borisa, Gabriel Maher, Kareem Khubchandani, Katarina Bonnevier, KNeo Mokgopa and Vikramaditya Sahai
To Be Clear
A see-through phone
Oli Stratford and Fabian Frinzel
Pipe Dreams
Enjoy a crystal high
Lauren Yoshiko and Fabian Frinzel
Fibre to Form
Nike bets on a needle-punched hoodie
Oli Stratford, Theresa Marx, Andre Vasiljev, Veronica Blagoeva, Sunao Takahashi, Linnéa Nordberg, Charlotte Carey and Patrick Wilson
It Hides a Mess!
Distributed manufacture; tidy mirror
Evi Hall and Fabian Frinzel
Embrace the Weird
Does design get tingles?
Sophie Tolhurst
Better Sensation
Erwan Bouroullec retreats to La Grange
Johanna Agerman Ross, Philippe Thibault, Charles Pétillon, Charlotte Vuarnesson and Erwan Bouroullec
Clinging On
Gorping at Tom Chung’s lamp
Kristina Rapacki and Fabian Frinzel
The Road to Utopia is Not Smooth
A contested paradise in south India’s Auroville
Rupal Rathore and Rebecca Conway
United by Design
Architects get organised
India Block and Jango Jim
Seen on Screen
Plastic peepers are everything everywhere all at once
Sharon Lam and Leonhard Rothmoser
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