NEW EPISODE! DESIGN EMERGENCY PODCAST. From inspiring symbols of workers’ activism and model workplaces, in this episode of Design Emergency podcast Paola Antonelli and I discuss design’s role in protecting and strengthening workers’ rights.
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The final episode of the Prada Frames podcast, produced by Koozarch, on the Being Home symposium curated by Formafantasma during Milan Design Week is now streaming. It is on the Living Room. (Image: © Prada)
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Ghost Signs | 4. Who knows what prompted the twit who carved a chunk out of the letters ‘O’ and ‘R’ in the Wells & Company Commercial Iron Works sign on Shoreditch High Street to add a tiny window to the facade of a formerly handsome industrial building?
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NEW EPISODE! DESIGN EMERGENCY PODCAST
Happy May Day! To celebrate, Paola Antonelli and I have recorded this special episode of Design Emergency podcast to explore design’s impact on workers’ rights and the changing nature of work. Streaming now...
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Ghost Signs | 3. This cooperage on Spital Street in East London was built to service what was once the bustling Truman Brewery. Now decrepit, the sole reminder of its original purpose, and the skilled work conducted in it, is the ghost sign above the door.
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From the Filo exhibition made by the Polish artist Karol Radziszewski at Auto Italia to explore the history of Filo, one of the first underground queer magazines in Central and Eastern Europe, founded by the Polish activist Ryszard Kisiel.
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Ghost Signs | 2. Looming above the Truman Brewery on Brick Lane in Spitalfields, East London is this red brick chimney emblazoned with the name Truman in white, a ghostly reminder of the days when the brewery was one of the biggest and busiest in Britain.
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A new episode of the Prada Frames podcast, produced by Koozarch, on the Being Home symposium curated by Formafantasma during Milan Design Week is now streaming. This episode is on the Dining Room. (Image: © Prada)
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Ghost Signs | 1. “Ghost signs” stay in place, sometimes for many years after the business or whatever else they identified either closed or changed its name, or were abandoned, like this self-defeatingly redundant sign on Audrey Street by London Fields.
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Conductor Graham Ross applauds the singers and musicians in the Clare College Choir for their wonderful performance of Monteverdi’s Vespers of 1610 at St John Smith Square last night.
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Design and Earth Day | 7. One of my favourite design books is Lo-TEK in which the ecologist Julia Watson, explores how indigenous communities use ancient wisdom to address ecological challenges. Her next book is to be published next year - Lo-TEK Water.
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A new episode of the Prada Frames podcast, produced by Koozarch, on the Being Home symposium curated by Formafantasma during Milan Design Week is now streaming. This episode is on the Bathroom. (Image: © Prada)
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Design and Earth Day | 6. The ancient craft of thatching, which uses straw, a natural material that grows rapidly and plentifully, and is high in sequestered carbon, is staging a revival, as illustrated by the Sundby Primary School being built in Denmark.
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From Adriano Costa's exhibition at Emalin's new second space, The Clerk's House...
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Design and Earth Day | 5. When construction starts on a new development in the Sickla area of Stockholm next year, it begin to build Stockholm Wood City, a landmark in sustainable construction as the world’s biggest construction project in wood.
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A new episode of the Prada Frames podcast, produced by Koozarch, on last week’s Being Home symposium curated by Formafantasma in Milan is now streaming. This episode is on the Library. (Image: © Prada)
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Design and Earth Day | 4. One of the most conspicuous - and contentious - design responses to the climate emergency is The Ocean Cleanup, which is committed to clearing plastic trash from our oceans. By Earth Day, it had cleared 10 million kilos of trash.
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abriele Münter's 1910 portrait of the opera singer Olga van Hartmann in the Expressionists exhibition that opened last night of work made by Münter, Kandinsky and other artists living and working in the Bavarian village of Murnau in the early 1900s.
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Joshua Leon's work at Chisenhale Gallery.
Chisenhale Gallery
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Here's the first episode of the Prada Frames podcast produced by KoozArch in which I discuss the symposium's concept of what Being Home means today with Andrea Trimarchi and Simone Farresin of Formafantasma and Natalia Grabowski.
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