Best of #July

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.

Damián Ortega, Escarabajo, 2005. 16 mm film transferred to DVD, colour, sound, 16 min. Courtesy the artist and kurimanzutto, Mexico City
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.

– 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

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