23.06.2022
La géographie d’internet
The Internet is often considered to be something intangible. Yet it is rooted in a physical infrastructure that we all use every day. Why is its materiality so often forgotten? Why is…
Category : ecology
08.06.2022
(Un)learning from Jakarta
Conversation between farid rakun from ruangrupa and the students from the Work.Master
On the 18th of June, 2022, documenta fifteen will open its doors in Kassel. The Indonesian collective ruangrupa run this new edition of the German five-year event, seeking to embed it in…
12.05.2022
Design creation and sustainability
Some concepts for a less harmful design conception
Yves Corminboeuf is a pioneer of sustainable design in Switzerland. A lecturer and delegate for sustainability at HEAD, he helps numerous organisations to take into account the ecological issues specific to their…
11.05.2022
Radical acts of love
In addition to being one of the world’s most polluting industries, fashion subjects its workers to some of the most degrading working conditions. In the face of these abuses, consumer mobilisation remains…
11.05.2022
Architecture without new architecture
Architecture has long been synonymous with construction. The realisation of the destructive dimension of such an enterprise on a global scale is now pushing architects to consider other ways of pursuing their…
11.05.2022
An innovative report on old technologies
An interview with Low-Tech magazine founder Kris De Decker
New technologies often come with harmful side effects, on both the ecological and psychosocial levels. Rather than putting the emphasis on novelty, Kris De Decker tries to address our human needs with…
11.05.2022
From user-centred design to design that removes
User-centred design has imposed itself solely on the development of computer interfaces and protocols. Far from being neutral, on the contrary, this approach to design is biased, because it is based on…
Fashion Design, Jewellery and Accessory, Fine arts, Research Institute for Art and Design, Space design, Visual communication
09.05.2022
ISSUE#12 – De/production without cons/des/truction
How can art and design practice be combined with ecological issues? Does production necessarily imply a form of destruction? What forms might a turn towards deproduction take? This feature considers these issues…
07.04.2022
Talking Heads – matali crasset
A time for restitution
matali crasset is an admired designer, known for her public commissions and numerous editions with brands. In this Talking Heads event hosted by Alexandra Midal, crasset addresses the more subterranean and essential…
11.10.2021
Impressions of Archipelago: Architectures for the Multiverse
A selection of new ideas to build differently
Renewing architecture and its paradigms for a future full of unknowns, in a multiple and archipelagic world, subject to the depletion of resources and the challenge of climate change; such was the…