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Insights: The future of curation, education, and transdisciplinarity

Two such curators are Lukas Feireiss, whose eponymous studio “provides overall conceptual development, design and implementation for diverse formats of...

Lisbon Design

Exploring the transformative power of Portuguese crafts with designer Noé Duchaufour-Lawrance

One could say that 2017 had been a transformative year for Noé Duchaufour-Lawrance, but that wouldn’t do justice to someone...

Berlin

The Journal Collective magnifies underrepresented visual stories on its online platform

In March of 2020, photographer Charlotte Schmitz, founder of The Journal Collective, had the forethought to question who would create...

Glasgow

Remade Network’s Sophie Unwin is scaling up repair culture through social enterprise

If it’s broken, fix it. Over the decades, this radically simple principle has been abandoned in the tailwinds of capitalism’s...

Copenhagen

Redesigning the future of the office workspace with NORNORM founder Anders Jepsen

Just as no person is an island, no chair, table, or any piece of furniture exists in isolation. Each object...

Munich Design

Stefan Diez’s circular philosophy

What if the disposable could give way to the steadfast? Extraction to replenishment? Depletion to regeneration? If the future belongs...

Barcelona Design

Studio Turbina: Connecting earthy & spiritual

Stones and rocks share an ancient relationship with rituals and spirituality. Stacking stone mounds, placing stones on graves, erecting them...

Link List

Link List #163: A year in review for Friends of Friends

2021 was about getting inspired and taking care of ourselves. View this post on Instagram A post shared by rich...

Community

Johanna-Maria Fritz joins forces with Ostkreuz students for charity print sale of her work in Afghanistan

The moments she captures on camera are intimate, colorful, often buoyant, and emphasize the beauty in cultural connection. The ten...

Los Angeles Assemblage Views

How community saved Prophet Walker’s life and inspired his leading edge co-housing project

Many of us might consider ourselves global citizens; it’s an attractive idea, the sense of feeling connected to, and responsible...

Los Angeles Architecture

Amanda Gunawan: Cultivating sustainable workspaces

For many, the onset of the pandemic has coincided with working from home at a scale unlike before. Working, but...

Los Angeles Art

Leigh Patterson & Michael A. Muller

It’s endearing watching Leigh Patterson and Michael A. Muller evade the question: what do you do? The insistent distillation regarding...

Photo Essays

Capturing the mundane sparkle of France’s southern coast with Paloma Saint Léger

“Our place in nature is also something I like to observe, we are just part of the scenery and it...

Berlin

Michael Andersen and Jeppe Christensen disrupt the kitchen industry with their reformative approach to design

It may seem like a strange turn of events for a business marketing executive and a construction engineer to suddenly...

Mixtapes Music

FF Mixtape #169: Arletis Garcia

“I can’t remember a time when I didn’t feel a deep emotional connection to music and the notion of creating...

Munich Art

Maurin Dietrich: The role of art institutions now

Unlike many of her contemporaries in the art world, curator Maurin Dietrich spent little time in galleries and museums as...

Mallorca Photography

Kate Bellm: Living the creative's dream

Kate Bellm was “flipping obsessed” with photography from the first moment she picked up a camera. “It was an instant...

Berlin Art

Generating “art electricity”, Pablo Wendel fights for sustainable systems in the art world and beyond

“If I had not gone into art, I would have definitely been an engineer,” says Pablo Wendel, who admits he...

Munich Art

Working at the intersection of art and research, Sarah Newman explores how technology can teach us more about what it means to be human

Florida-born artist Sarah Newman grew up in a household that de-emphasized technology. “We didn’t have video games, cable television, or...

Mixtapes Music

FF Mixtape #167: Ogazón

“I am a raver at heart. I love to dance and make people dance.” View this post on Instagram A...