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Protest Too Much

The 2021 Turner Prize has gone to Array, the Belfast-based art collective that uses protest as its medium, just as the UK government seeks to criminalise peaceful civil disobedience.

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The Clock and the Hunchback

Lemmi Shehadi speaks to the people working to rebuild Mosul’s multi-faith community by repairing the places of worship destroyed by the IS and US airstrikes.

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Snap Happy

Enter the Disegno photography competition for your chance to win an Ayno lamp by Stefan Diez for Midgard.

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Nothing About Us Without Us

Jesse Rice-Evans reviews Sara Hendren’s What Can A Body Do? and asks why discussions around adaptive design still refuse to centre disabled people.

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The Crit #15: Garden Via Algorithm

The Crit welcomes Apple repair kits; says goodbye to The Tulip; despairs over Munger Hall; asks how AI can attract bees; and tracks a cow from field to sofa.

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Virgil Abloh (1980 - 2021)

Disegno looks back on the genre-defying career of Virgil Abloh, the trailblazing Black designer who is dead at the age of 41.

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Disegno #31

Disegno’s 31st edition is filled to the brim with exciting and insightful long-form journalism to restore your flagging spirits and warm your arterial cockles.

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Take an E-seat

Inside the weird world of NFT furniture, where you can spend thousands on a chair you’ll never be able to sit on.

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Data Centre Detectives

An exhibition in London reveals the secret lives of data centres, the hidden architecture that’s poised to take over the world.

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Circle Back

Invisible Lines is a capsule collection of round glasses designed by a group of friends who posted the titanium frames back and forth across the globe during the pandemic.

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The Tech Master’s Tools

After years of planned obsolescence and criticism from the right-to-repair movement, Apple is going to offer at-home DIY repair kits for iPhones and Macbooks.

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Sludge Solution

Honext is the sustainable building material that solves sludge problems for paper mills by turning waste into a recyclable MDF alternative.

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Circular Design, Two Ways

Odd Matter’s Afterlife crate for Supernovas is a durable and multipurpose home accessory made from recycled plastic that offers an alternative to fast furniture.

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Solar Culture Club

From Disegno #29, an interview with solar designer Marjan van Aubel on her new sunshine-powered lamp Sunne and the dream of a solar democracy.

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Reflections on Transparency

From Disegno #10, architecture writer Matthew Allen presses his nose up against the glass of the many windows of Grace Farms, the mysterious utopian community centre designed by Sanaa in Connecticut.

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