June 2022 Archive

  • The shape of water
    Design News • 29 Jun 22
    Maya Lin’s sprawling installations pay homage to – and ask questions about – watery ecologies >
  • The presence of absence
    Design News • 29 Jun 22
    The Bamiyan Cultural Centre in the Bamiyan Valley meditates on the complex history and uncertain future of Afghanistan >
  • It takes a village
    Design News • 29 Jun 22
    Intrepid designer Lani Adeoye is inspired by the organic rhythms of the traditional society, adapting them for modern audiences >
  • Subverting narratives
    Q&A • 29 Jun 22
    Siyabonga Mtshali designs Gqom luxury apparel for the black queer body >
  • Arbour days
    Design News • 21 Jun 22
    Stefano Boeri x Timberland have created a multisensory installation to bring the scents and sensations of being in a forest into an urban waterway >
  • Superstructures
    Q&A • 21 Jun 22
    Mona-Lisa Mthethwa believes architecture can be used as a tool to bring about sustainable change >
  • Home and away
    Design Frontiers • 21 Jun 22
    The new Africa Centre in Southwark is poised to unveil a permanent collection of contemporary African art, following a much-anticipated refurbishment >
  • Dream, explore, discover
    Design News • 21 Jun 22
    Take a seat on a Bofred masterpiece and be transported to a world where all you need do is actively observe >
  • Future compostable
    Design News • 13 Jun 22
    Furniture designer Jonsara Ruth restores disabled pieces of furniture so they are both ecologically and ergonomically healthier >
  • Hold my beer
    Design News • 13 Jun 22
    Daniel Ting Chong’s partnership with Local Brewery & Co. brings inclusivity and fashionable fun to craft beer >
  • A continental visionary
    Q&A • 13 Jun 22
    Nkululeko Mthembu’s design thinking helps to solve uniquely African challenges >
  • Fast track to a modern Senegal
    Design News • 13 Jun 22
    Renowned Senegalese architect Fatiya Diene Mazza, who is founder of the firm ID+EA, has been instrumental in refreshing the infrastructure of her nation >
  • When pictures tell stories
    Q&A • 6 Jun 22
    Fashion and portrait photography allow Thulani Kubeka to paint with light. >
  • Photographic memory
    Design News • 6 Jun 22
    Influential post-war Japanese photographer’s solo exhibition highlights the pathos of the past >
  • Just beachy
    Design News • 6 Jun 22
    Tosin Oshinowo’s Coral Pavilion embraces the traditions of tropical modernism in West Africa >
  • For the birds
    Design News • 6 Jun 22
    Treehotel and BIG make a case for species co-habitation with their new collaboration, Biosphere >