SUR+PLUS, a collection that questions our production systems
Presented at Alcova 2026 in the setting of Villa Pestarini, SUR+PLUS is a project by Japanese studio AtMa, founded by […]
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Sustainability
We hear a lot about Sustainability, sometimes too much and often not rightly. In this section, we have set ourselves the task of showing you truly sustainable design projects, which take into account the materials used, the production processes and their contribution to a truly circular economy, capable of reducing the environmental impact.
What if humans are no longer at the center of design?
My recent encounter with Satu Miettinen’s Planetary Design for Services workshop in Singapore in 2026 prompted a question that has […]
GOURDO: what growing a lamp from mushrooms and waste looks like
Design enthusiasts often have a knack for understanding how an object was made: looking at its parting lines, joints, or […]
LTR1 brings housing, public space and nature into a vertical neighborhood
What if a residential tower behaved less like a building and more like a neighborhood, a vertical neighborhood? This is […]
6 future-forward design master’s programmes worth knowing
While bachelor’s degrees are usually to cover the basics, design master’s programmes are where the fun can truly start. In […]
A building that never ends: the role of affordances in architectural longevity
Why do some buildings survive for five hundred years while others are torn down within a few decades of being […]
The Or Foundation: driving systemic change through textile waste
The rapid spread of the fast fashion model – which prioritises volume over value alongside a progressive decline in garment […]
Ants, bananas, and a bicycle: how 4 students rethought first-mile transportation
In the international conversation about supply chains, most attention gathers around the “last mile,” the final stretch between a warehouse […]
Itaca: inside WASP’s first certified 3D-printed house
On a stretch of farmland near Imola, an Italian company called WASP has finished building a house through additive manufacturing. […]
A new standard for water safety: the Mamuli-Surf Helmet
“Safety First” is a universal expression that we have all heard at least once in our lives, however, when it […]
Small speaker, smaller footprint: how to do sustainable tech right
The Google Home Speaker, introduced in June 2026, doesn’t look so different from the smart speakers that have been sitting […]
Inviting biology into architecture through minimal surface geometry
Rameshwari Jonnalagedda is a London-based architect and designer whose work sits at the intersection of computation, digital fabrication, and biology. […]
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