Stories
Design for the Real World ᵥ
Lara Lesmes and Fredrik Hellberg of Space Popular zoom with David Chalmers to philosophise about virtual architecture and the challenge of designing civic spaces in a privatised metaverse.
It Has Pockets
Disegno interviews Hanna Ter Meulen, co-founder of Early Majority, a technical outerwear brand addressing the pockets gender gap.
Enter the Zoöp
Aric Chen, Het Nieuwe Instituut’s artistic and general director, discusses transforming the institution into the world’s first zoöp: a body dedicated to ecological regeneration and representing non-human life.
A Topography for Encounter
From Disegno #31, a roundtable interview with Herzog & de Meuron on the opening of M+, a Hong Kong museum in built on reclaimed land in a city at a political crossroads.
Pottery Heads
Weed’d head of design Simone Bonanni talks to Disegno about ceramic bongs and developing a made in Italy cannabis culture.
The Spicy Present
Disegno meets with MSCHF to talk how product design can be performance art, and whether a discipline entwined with commerce can still offer consumerist satire.
Metaverse Meditations
Andrés Reisinger talks to Francesca Anderson about his latest digital design, Winter House, and why he believes reluctant designers should embrace the metaverse.
An Extruded Performance
As he prepares to open a new clay performance and exhibition at 100 Bishopsgate, artist Anton Alvarez speaks to Disegno about his method.
Parallel Designs
Studio Weiki Somers does the design time warp for The Roaring Twenties, an exhibition at Museum Kranenburgh in The Netherlands that remixes objects from the past and the present.
A Floral Algorithm
Alexandra Daisy Ginsberg talks about surrendering control, designing for other species, and digital gardens as part of her new project: Pollinator Pathmaker.
Kazam!
To celebrate the 80th anniversary of the Eames Office, the practice has launched a new edition of Charles and Ray Eames’s groundbreaking 1943 Molded Plywood Sculpture. To mark the occasion, Disegno sat down with the designers’ grandson, Eames Demetrios, to discuss the sculpture’s significance to their practice.
A Profound Immersion
Arctic researcher Lola Sheppard interviews architect Dorte Mandrup about the Ilulissat Icefjord Centre in Greenland, a visitor hub serving witness to a glacier beaten back by climate change.
A Moment of Crystallisation
Bocci’s Omer Arbel joins material scientist Anna Ploszajski for a conversation about the alchemy that occurs when you begin mixing copper with glass.