Disegno #18 includes:
Freddy Mamani and the New Andean Architecture of El Alto; an analysis of memes as a future design form; Franklin Till’s efforts to bring rigour to trend forecasting; the mid-century couture of Paul Thomas Anderson and Daniel Day-Lewis in The Phantom Thread; photographs from a women’s weaving cooperative in Kabul; a report looking at chrome’s past and future; Naoto Fukasawa in conversation with Mobike’s Hu Weiwei; a roundtable discussion about mind-controlled machines with Jonathon Keats and José Millán; a look at OMA’s rehang of the Stedelijk Museum; the history of a colour in Han Kang’s The White Book; an all-nighter at the Muji Hotel; D.235.1 Chair meets her long-lost son, Robin Hood Gardens; eight approaches to moulding technology; Kenya’s first running shoe; and the reanimation of postmodernism by Terry Farrell and Adam Nathaniel Furman.