In ten stories about – among other things – the rebuilding after an earthquake, ceramic tableware used as bricks, electric bicycles and new materials inspired by the pinecone, here is the best of July on Domusweb.
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A water-reacting material, an installation that uses 25,000 dishes as if they were bricks and a monograph about Wes Anderson’s last film are three of the ten stories we choose to recount the month of July on Domusweb.
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- 01 August 2015
– For his final year project at RCA, Chinese product designer Chao Chen took inspiration for the pinecone to develop a water-reacting material that can be used for a lot of applications.
– After The Pinch and The Sweep Olivier Ottevaere and John Lin completed The Warp, their third project for the post-earthquake reconstruction in the Yunnan Province, China: a wooden rest area and roadside market that serves as a meeting point in an ethnically diverse region.
– For the renovation of Maruhiro flagship store in Nagasaki, Japan, Yusuke Seki used 25,000 locally sourced imperfect, white, tableware to create new levels in the space.
– With Concrete Memory Sara Moiola tells the story of Alberto Burri’s work in Gibellina Vecchia, an open-air cathedral caught in an infinity yard, with the spontaneous vegetation as the only spectator.
– Two months since Expo 2015 opened, in an attempt to cast light on the matter, we analysed nearly 1.7 million posts, with the assistance of Voices from the Blogs, a spin-off of Milan University.
– The Aram Gallery presents “Extra-Ordinary”, an exhibition of young designers working with ordinary materials, products or processes to discover new ways to look at the stuff that surrounds us.
– The Grand Budapest Hotel, the hefty volume by Matt Zoller Seitz is a semi-serious thesis structured in three acts, each of which unfolds around a long, in-depth interview with the film-maker Wes Anderson.
– Danish architect studio Gjøde & Povlsgaard Arkitekter created for Sculpture by the Sea 2015 a sculpture that is all about experiencing the surroundings and becoming aware of the relation between the city of Aarhus and the magnificent landscape of the bay.
– Launched on July 15 on Kickstarter, A-Bike Electric is the world’s lightest and most compact electric bike, conceived by Clive Sinclair and developed by a small team in London.
– In the works by Mexican artist Damián Ortega on show at HangarBicocca in Milan, the chaos is disarray but we only see a past record or the potential: frozen in a precise and planned point.
Top: Damián Ortega, Escarabajo, 2005. 16 mm film transferred to DVD, colour, sound, 16 min. Courtesy the artist and kurimanzutto, Mexico City