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Tracking the impact of design
 

Tracking the impact of design

On the wake of the third edition of What Design Can Do — one of the northern hemisphere’s most interesting design events — conference director Richard van der Laken expands on the project's evolution and future ambitions.

 

Design / Vera Sacchetti

Form follows tales
 

Form follows tales

Every detail of this Leipzig kindergarten shows respect for its young users. Architect Susanne Hofmann expands on a design that was produced by a shared process.

 

Architecture / Laura Bossi

Mobile M+: Inflation!

Large-scale inflatable sculptures by Cao Fei, Choi Jeong Hwa, Tam Wai Ping, Jeremy Deller, Jiakun Architects, Paul McCarthy and Tomás Saraceno take over the West Kowloon Promenade, becoming surreal protagonists in a space that will become a sculpture park in 2014.

 

Art / Francesca Esposito

Parkour in Palestine
 

Parkour in Palestine

Inspired by the nascent sport of parkour, Gaza Parkour Team began to observe the urban fabric of Gaza as a playground through which they could move fluidly, using their bodies—instead of weapons and explosives—to overcome boundaries and barriers.

 

Architecture / Joseph Grima, Antonio Ottomanelli

Jordi Vilardell: Meridiano
 

Jordi Vilardell: Meridiano

The Meridiano collection of outdoor lamps possesses a twofold functionality that activates a hybridisation process, resulting in objects that are half lamp and half seat.

 

News / Giulia Guzzini

The flux of human life

One of few women architects in America during the ’60s and ’70s, Mary Otis Stevens tells Domus about the stages in her extraordinary life: the revolutionary Lincoln House, the years at MIT, the founding of i Press and its series on the human environment, and her more recent civil and cultural endeavours.

 

Architecture / Pelin Tan, Ute Meta Bauer

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Achtung Berlin
 

Achtung Berlin

Stanislaus von Moos discusses the recent symposium that took place at the Yale School of Architecture, which focused on Berlin as an experimental workshop of the history of architecture between 1945 and the present day.

 

Interviews / Paola Nicolin

Really sustainable?
 

Really sustainable?

Domus sits with Belgian collective Rotor to discuss how the moral question of sustainability is lived out in contemporary production, both within and beyond the realm of architecture and design, and unveils the story behind the cover of the March issue.

 

Architecture / Joseph Grima

Null Object

In a poetic application of technology, Bruce Gilchrist and Jo Joelson (London Fieldworks) asked German artist Gustav Metzger to think about nothing, using the resulting encephalogram data to carve a block of limestone with an industrial robot. The resulting work, Thinking About Nothing, was reproduced on the cover of Domus 965.

 

Interviews / Joseph Grima

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Taming concrete
 

Taming concrete

The launch of three pieces in the new Concrete Collection represents the second stage in a global project undertaken by Matali Crasset with a small French company to bring concrete into the home. Might it be the first phase in a manufacturing revolution?

 

Design / Loredana Mascheroni

The Biennale becomes Kraftwerk
 

The Biennale becomes Kraftwerk

On the wake of last week's presentation, President of La Biennale di Venezia Paolo Baratta discusses the 2014 edition, reaffirming the will to create a memorable edition, enlarging the event's scope and importance.

 

Interviews / Roberto Zancan

The particular way in which a thing exists

Using a recent exhibition that restates Martin Beck's particular approach to exhibition practice and art production as a starting point, the New York-based artist discusses his art practice, ways of dealing with history, and of looking at things.

 

Interviews / Victoria Øye