Redesigning cities: how new cycle lanes are changing commuting habits
Recent studies show that investments in cycling infrastructures encourage bike commuting. A trend initiated during the pandemic that could help drastically reduce emissions.
Urban vegetable gardens for better cities: an introductory guide
To guide you through horticultural practices in the city and reflect on urban gardens as promoters of environmental sustainability and social cohesion.
Microcars: ten ultratiny cars designed for the city
From the experiments at the beginning of the last century to the many latest models, the dream of a city-sized car alternates between icons and failures.
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9 plants to turn your balcony into a healing garden
During lockdown, nature has increasingly entered our private spaces. Here’s how to build a healing garden at home.
What does the future hold for Burning Man? Between utopia and controversies
Due to Covid, the 2021 edition of Burning Man won't take place, making it the second year without the festival. Burning Man is calling for a rethink: can making the event permanent save the festival's utopia?
From Enzo Mari to the right to repair: can we still design autonomously?
The Right to Repair movement and Enzo Mari’s theoretical work seem far away in space and time, but both are expressions of the struggle to change the way society is designed.
Design between hauntology, ontology and Capitalocene
Ani Liu, Giovanni Innella, Marco Petroni and Emanuele Quinz explore in a four-part series the possibilities of a post-anthropocene: the issues to be addressed, the limits to be overcome. Here you can find the first contribution.
Social Housing Barcelona: a new housing solution for the over-65s
The book, edited by ListLab, features architect Francesco Cocco’s research on social housing experiments for elderly people in Barcelona, with photographs by Stefano Ferrando. In an interview with Domus, they explain the choices that guided the project.
Andrejs Legzdiņš: “In nature, we find the origin of everything”
The 95-year-old Latvian-Swedish architect tells us about the time he published on Domus his ecological and technological houses of the future and adaptive reuse projects that followed Buckminster Fuller’s mantra “Doing more with less”.
New farmers and the rebirth of the countryside
With more than 55,000 under-35s running farms and ranches, Italy is currently the leading European country in terms of companies run by young people, partly due to the accelerated greening of consumption and work during this pandemic year.
Bikes from the origins to the future: the evolution in ten models
Bicycles have a lot more history than people think, even if they took on the form we know from the twentieth century, of which they are one of the most iconic vehicles. And in the future we can see further changes, with the beginning of their electric era.
Conversation on Rome, the city of contradictions
Rome was not built in a day, but nearly so. The Eternal City is extremely modern and often paradoxical. Domus talks about it with Giuseppe Grant of Orizzontale and Christian Raimo.
In California, a 3D printed neighbourhood in Mid-century modern style
The project will offer smart and eco-friendly homes with an almost automated production process and a significant waste reduction.
Digital sovereignty and smart cities: what does the future hold?
Domus meets Francesca Bria, president of the Italian National Innovation Fund, to discuss the challenges our cities will be facing, halfway between their physical and digital dimension.