The Crit explores Expo 2020; The Simpsons’s collaboration with Balenciaga; a new set of Eames trainers; and an extended interview with MoMu’s Kaat Debo.

From Disegno #21, the journal delves into the issue of national design identity, prompted by the multi-year, multi-designer renovation of Sweden’s Nationalmuseum.

From Disegno #25, curator and writer Glenn Adamson gives his verdict on the 2019 revamp of the MoMA as the institution grapples with its past.

Grafton Architects’ Town House for Kingston University has won the Stirling Prize, but does its concrete construction justify itself in an era of climate collapse?

After a six-and-a-half-year hiatus, fashion brand Toast has restored menswear to its collection – its head of menswear explains why the time was right for a comeback.

Anicka Yi’s boundary-blurring bio-robots have opened to the public in Tate Modern’s Turbine Hall.

From Disegno #19, artist and designer Aboubakar Fofana on reviving the Malian tradition of natural indigo dyeing that was picked apart by colonialism and capitalism.

From Disegno #17, Hella Jongerius and Louise Schouwenberg discuss their manifesto-turned-exhibition and get angry at design’s wasteful pursuit of novelty.

Disegno’s podcast on forestry and design and architecture returns for a second season.

From Disegno #24, the wanderlust-filled founders of design studio Company and their secret Helsinki kiosk.

From Disegno #18, on the ground in El Alto, Bolivia’s fastest-growing city and capital of the New Andean style of Architecture.

From Disegno #12, Roksanda Ilinčić and David Adjaye have a conversation about the intersections between fashion and architecture.

Disegno’s roundup from the 2021 London Design Festival.

From Disegno #22, Mexican designer Fernando Laposse and a community of farmers collaborate to revive colourful heritage corn.

From Disegno #27, Zosia Swidlicka interviews Polish graphic designers who campaigned against homophobia during the 2020 election.

From Disegno #20, Oli Stratford’s history of the driver in the age of automation illustrated by portraits from Andrew Bush’s series 66 Drives.

From Disegno #20, Peter Smisek’s exploration of the Vatican’s dialogues with non-believers through art, fashion and architecture.

Scientists have found a way to build a base for life on Mars – using astronauts’ bodily fluids to make concrete out of alien dust.