These are the most appreciated topics by Domus Web’s readers in August: applied to design, in Naomi Kizhner’s project Energy Addicts, a jewellery to reflect about how far will we go to in order to “feed” our electricity addiction in the world of declining resources and in Functional 3D Printed Ceramics, designed Olivier van Herpt to “bake in” the randomness, uniqueness into the mechanical process; but also to archicture whit Architecture-by-Bee, where Geoff Manaugh and John Becker imagine a new urban bee species to be used as a low-cost biological tool for repairing statues and architectural ornament, even producing whole, free-standing structures such as cathedrals.
Also art and photography explore current issues such as, respectively, the deep, passionately-committed and demanding relationship that has always existed between man and plants – described from the point of view of social conflict in the exhibition “Vegetation as a Political Agent” hosted by PAV – Parco Arte Vivente in Turin – and the signs of human interference with water in the ongoing series Waters by Hungarian photographer Ákos Major.
Best of #August:
– Energy Addicts
– 3D Printed Ceramics
– Architecture-by-Bee
– Urbanicide in all good faith
– Unesco is not ISIS
– Vegetation and politics
– Waters
– Housing at the old city wall
– Casa da Severa
– House in Madesimo
– House in Macheon
– P+A: Anti-Office