August 2019 - Friends of Friends / Freunde von Freunden (FvF)

Link List #128: The Fashion Pact, The Green Gang, and sustainable Lebanese tourism

Link List #128: The Fashion Pact, The Green Gang, and sustainable Lebanese tourism Hopefully you enjoyed the reads from this...

Berlin Music

The women making noise in Berlin’s music scene

The music scene is a domain in which women have traditionally been on the passive side of things: as muses,...

Music

FvF Mixtape #148: Torstraßen Festival

“Underground music culture and Torstraße generally don’t share the same associations.” Andrea Goetzke is based in Berlin and works as...

Link List #127: Grace Wales Bonner, weird capitalization, and the humans behind the machines of tomorrow

Link List #127: Grace Wales Bonner, weird capitalization, and the unseen humans behind the machines of tomorrow. Hopefully you enjoyed...

Amsterdam Fashion

The creative director of the world’s first digital fashion house selects five era-defining moments from science fiction

When she was eight years old, Amber Jae Slooten started playing The Sims. For a young girl obsessed with clothes...

Photography

The athletic initiative advancing gender equality in Ethiopia

Girls Gotta Run is the first and only non-profit organization worldwide that promotes empowerment through running and education. Founded by...

Ghent Design

Belgian design duo Muller Van Severen construct poetic furniture rooted in surrealism

While many view home renovations as a necessary evil, for Belgian designers Fien Muller and Hannes Van Severen, the process...

Link List #126: Jamaican dancehall, feminine fat rolls, and sustainable alternatives to London Fashion Week

Link List #126: Jamaican dancehall, feminine fat rolls, and sustainable alternatives to London Fashion Week Hopefully you enjoyed the reads...

Fashion

Radically positive artists Pinar & Viola discuss five socio-cultural ideas influencing their recent work

Radically positive artists Pinar & Viola discuss five socio-cultural ideas influencing their recent work For Pinar Demirdag and Viola Renate,...

New York City Art

Mona Chalabi: Illustrating stats in times of unrest

A slight humming sound emanates from her air conditioning on a hot Wednesday morning as Brooklyn-based, British data journalist and...

Frankfurt Food

Frankfurt’s restaurants reimagined with culinary entrepreneurs James and David Ardinast

James and David Ardinast are sitting in the courtyard of Frankfurt’s 25hours Hotel, not far from the city’s central train...

Berlin Berlin

Expressing rage through angles and pie charts with Berlin-based artist Christine Sun Kim

“I’m starting to find that headlines are becoming a blur at this point,” says Berlin-based artist Christine Sun Kim. Sat...

Amsterdam Design

Richard van der Laken fights social injustice one design challenge at a time

In conversation with Richard van der Laken, the co-founder of the global design foundation and conference series, What Design Can...

Link List #124: Environmentally friendly Mexican murals, digital sign language interpreters, and the Hawaiian telescope that could help detect alien life

Link List #124: Environmentally friendly Mexican murals, digital sign language interpreters, and the Hawaiian telescope that could help detect alien...

Seoul Art

Seoul-based light artists Kimchi and Chips conjure form at the edge of materiality

“We received about two calls per week for dinner reservations,” says Elliot Woods referring to the time when the arts...

New York City

The Cut’s Madame Clairevoyant recommends five books that will alter your perceptions of astrology

The Cut’s Madame Clairevoyant recommends five books that will alter your perceptions of astrology “My sun sign is Sagittarius which...