Commons
Nothing Without Us: Anti-Ableist Cultural Practices Now!
MELT (Ren Loren Britton & Iz Paehr)
The arts-design duo MELT is working on projects and practices that build towards worlds not structured by ableism.
Storytelling
Fail again. Fail epic
Valentina Tanni
Digital culture is reappropriating error and failure and using it as a critique of the prevailing aesthetic canons.
Planet
Toward a “Bacterial Turn” in Art, Architecture and Design
Jens Hauser
The urban design project "Geo-LLum" proposes an experimental bacteria-powered public lightening system in Barcelona’s El Clot neighbourhood.
Technology
Kyle Chayka: “The platform connects us but also homogenizes our tastes”
Àlex Hinojo
We talk to the journalist about minimalism and how this trend affects us when it comes to relating to the world that surrounds us.
Technology
Against Complexity
Joana Moll
Technological solutions often side-step the complexity of the systemic problems they face.
Storytelling
Designing between truth and fiction
Oriol Arnedo Casas
In the throes of the post-truth era, a new generation of designers have started to use fiction in their creative work as a means for speculating about the nature of the reality that surrounds us.
Science
The cosmos on a dust particle
César Reyes Nájera | Ethel Baraona Pohl
Most of everything that makes up the universe is unknown to us. Can we speculate about what human perception of dark matter would be like?
Commons
Social movements in a time of pandemic
Dafne Calvo
COVID-19 has challenged the creativity of citizens in lockdown, who have responded to the crisis through numerous expressions of solidarity, both online and offline.
Storytelling
Graphs, Expectations and Inventing the Future
Andreu Belsunces
Visualizations contribute to creating our social imaginaries and expectations, and therefore have an impact on the construction of future realities.
Culture
Lessons from the Bauhaus for the 21st century
Ferran Esteve
On the centenary of its foundation, we trace the influence of the Bauhaus in such diverse spheres as education, innovation and digital culture.
Culture
Towards a New Design Atlas
Efraín Foglia
Social and industrial changes in recent decades are urging a reconsideration of design typologies, with a re-reading for the current era.
Planet
Making Energy Futures at the Island Edge
Laura Watts
Diary of the installation of the Newton Machine on the island of Eday (Scotland), a project that challenges the energy culture through citizen participation.