The coronavirus outbreak is impacting the entire world, shaking many of our certainties, and changing our calendars. Most of the design fairs and events have been cancelled or postponed to 2021, including the most important… Leggi tutto »ISOLA GOES DIGITAL AND SOMA WILL BE THERE
Climate change is one of the biggest challenges of this century, and we can’t afford to stop acting on it even while battling a global pandemic. Scientific simulations suggest that the change in the global surface… Leggi tutto »RESTORATIVE DESIGN AND CLIMATE CHANGE
The coronavirus crisis is forcing the world to deal with its contradictions. Health care access, social and economic inequalities, air pollution, have a huge impact on the battle against COVID-19. While the virus threatens our… Leggi tutto »COVID-19 AND THE FUTURE OF DISPOSABLES
Brazil is facing a very tragic battle against COVID-19. After learning from experience the consequences of a coronavirus outbreak, it couldn’t be more heartbreaking for us (two Brazilians) to follow up with our country news.… Leggi tutto »SOCIAL INEQUALITIES IN TIMES OF COVID-19 PANDEMIC
Paola Antonelli MoMA design curator and design critic Alice Rawsthorn have launched Design Emergency to explore the role of design in the Covid-19 crisis. In the first @design.emergency conversation, Antonelli talked with Michael Murphy, co-founder of MASS… Leggi tutto »POST-COVID SPACES: WHAT’S NEXT?
One of the circular economy principles is to keep materials and products in use for as much time as possible. There are, however, different approaches to extend product longevity and to reduce waste. Some methods… Leggi tutto »UPCYCLING VS DOWNCYCLING WHAT’S THE DIFFERENCE?
April is almost over and, due to the coronavirus outbreak, this month has been quite different from previous years. We are still in lockdown and the MILAN DESIGN WEEK 2019, the most important design event… Leggi tutto »MILAN DESIGN WEEK #TBT
The use of volcanic matter in architecture has a long and rich history, from the Bronze Age to Roman concrete; to César Manrique’s evocative Lanzarote architecture of the 1960s. Since 2019, design studio FormaFantasma has… Leggi tutto »VOLCANIC ASH-GLAZED TILES
To answer this question, we first need to understand what recycling means.Recycling means reducing a product to its basic material level, hence allowing those materials or a portion of them to be remade into new… Leggi tutto »IS RECYCLING AN ANSWER TO OUR WASTE PROBLEM?
The global economy is consuming 100 billion tonnes of materials a year for the first time; however, the cycling rate of resources has gone into reverse. Of all the fossil fuels, minerals, metals, and biomass… Leggi tutto »PRODUCTS LIFE CYCLE MATTERS