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Maggie Kane: On the role of creativity when helping marginalised communities...
Maggie Kane is an academic, a self-learner, an activist and an artist. She works in user experience design, illustration, technology accessibility, interaction design but you can also meet her at...
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The Antilibrary: artists’ books and our bizarre future
After almost a month of total silence on the blog, I’m very happy to publish an interview with Oscar Salguero, a researcher, critical designer and independent book curator based in Brooklyn, where he...
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Alex Nathanson: the “poetics of photovoltaics”
Alex Nathanson is one of those rare artists who makes solar power sounds exciting rather than utilitarian. Magical rather than just eco-friendly. Nathanson is a multimedia artist, engineer, educator...
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Device_art festival of art, robotics and new technologies
The seventh edition of Device_art festival of art, robotics and new technologies closed a few weeks ago at the Museum of Contemporary art in Zagreb. Branimir Štivić, B E L L O W S, 2021. Photo by Vanja...
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Caps Lock – How Capitalism Took Hold of Graphic Design, and how to Escape...
Caps Lock – How Capitalism Took Hold of Graphic Design, and how to Escape from it. Author: designer and researcher Ruben Pater. Publisher: Valiz. Ruben Pater‘s The Politics of Design. A (Not So) Global...
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Absolute Beginners: making the basic goods you might need when economies...
In 2017, Tom James collaborated with Alex Hartley to build a geodesic dome from reclaimed materials on the grounds of a country mansion. Then they invited various experts and members of the public to...
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Unknown Unknowns
The past 2 decades have seen an acceleration of the horrendous and the uncontrollable: wars, pandemics, financial crashes, scarcity of energy resources, climate crisis, rise of dangerous ideologies and...
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Diego Trujillo Pisanty. When photography “produces something other than...
Diego Trujillo Pisanty is one of the regularly invited guests on this blog. Focusing on information as both a concept and a material, his practice is remarkably consistent, yet full of surprises. His...
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Neo-Mineralia: the new post-natural geological specimens
From Rai stones to Pet Rock, handaxes to rock ‘flour’, bezoars to plastiglomerates, rocks of all sizes and values have long played a role in human cultures. They might look boring and, in most cases,...
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BLACK BOX CARTOGRAPHY. A critical cartography of the Internet and beyond
BLACK BOX CARTOGRAPHY. A critical cartography of the Internet and beyond, by Vladan Joler. Edited by Vladan Joler, Francesco D’Abbraccio, Andrea Facchetti. Publisher: Krisis Publishing. Whether it’s...
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What Design Can’t Do. Essays on Design and Disillusion
What Design Can’t Do. Essays on Design and Disillusion, by writer, artist and designer Silvio Lorusso. Published by Set Margins. Graphic design: Federico Antonini. Do you remember when design vowed to...
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