We visited Cersaie in Bologna, the international ceramics fair that hosted over 600 exhibitors to promote their novelties and innovations to an audience of over 90,000 visitors from all over the world.
We visited Cersaie in Bologna, the international ceramics fair that hosted over 600 exhibitors to promote their novelties and innovations to an audience of over 90,000 visitors from all over the world.
Colour changing materials have already been on the market for a while. Recent developments in technology and manufacturing processes have helped widen the field of application for these materials, ranging now from casual consumer products up to the textile and fashion industry.
Design Tech hub consists in a unique ecosystem of innovation in the capital of Italian design, that aims to bring companies and professionals together under one roof to develop a design that is more connected to the future of living and our lives in general.
Just like the Paris Agreement did for carbon emissions, a resolution passed at the UN Environment Assembly held in Nairobi, Kenya will see nations define a set of universal rules and targets to end plastic waste.
Titled “NATURE X HUMANITY” Neri Oxman’s manifesto calls for a new type of design practice that replenishes nature, rather than exploiting it. Oxman and her team draw on multiple scientific fields to define innovative production methods based on growth as an alternative to assembly. The manifesto is completed by a documentary bearing the same title by Neri Oxman and The Mediated Matter Group.
A designer Japanese by origin and Dutch by adoption, Sho Ota processes natural wood making it an iconic material, whose grain quality is enhanced by highlighting its unique elements. The focus of his research are the forms and textures that surround us while revealing the structures beneath the industrially created surfaces.