Stories
Embrace the Weird
Sophie Tolhurst reviews Weird Sensation Feels Good, and asks what gets sanitised when an internet phenomena is embraced by traditional design institutions.
Caring is Sharing
Maison&Objet returns to Paris for 2023 with an enthusiastic message of caring for the environment and each other.
This Is Not a Rhinoceros
Alexandra Daisy Ginsberg lets her AI rhino loose in London’s Natural History Museum, prompting philosophical questions about extinction and complicity.
What Drives Us Together
Seven prototypes for living through the climate crisis get taken for a test drive at Driving the Human’s festival in Berlin.
Whose Future?
As major institutions put on exhibitions curating utopian visions for the future, Zara Arshad enquires as to whether they have grappled fully with their colonial pasts.
A Hotel is a Plot
A trip into Eimear McBride’s novel Strange Hotel reveals the rich literary potential of hotel architecture.
What is the Purpose of a Graduate Show?
On the evolution of the graduate show, examining how the the end-of-year get-together for graduating designers has morphed into a platform for talent and trends.
Relearning History
Disegno discovers the original pioneer of DIY and the secrets of the Soviet space race at Vitra’s exhibition Here We Are! Women in Design 1900 – Today.