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Chance encounters
An immersive sound installation that embraces chance encounters
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KARRI
Pentagram’s child-friendly mobile messaging device
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Wind to Watts
Designer Fabien Brun has created a modular, portable wind turbine
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Designing on Eggshells
Australian Designer turns eggshells into lighting
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A Serpentine
LANZA Atelier's Serpentine Pavilion proves that less can be more
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Who is watching?
British trip-hop pioneers Massive Attack and the London collective, United Visual Artists (UVA) collaborate for provocative onstage visuals.
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Plastic Tapestries
Moffat Takadiwa transforms Zimbabwe’s plastic waste into powerful tapestries
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Conflict Ecology
The Geospatial research studio who is using radar technology to reveal the hidden impact of conflict.
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Led by Donkeys
Satire, activism and creative resistance
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Joy through resistance
Yinka Ilori’s latest exhibition showcases his deeper roots of joy
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Ratchu Vaan Surajaras
Designing Flood Resistant Cities
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Jakob Trollbäck
Beauty and Logic of design
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Enni-Kukka Tuomala
Radical Empathy
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Wave Energy
Spanish engineering company IDOM launches MARMOK-A-5, a floating wave energy converter.
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Kinya Tagawa
Techno-progressivism
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Freeway Park
Designed by HKS and SWA, Halperin Park is a “cap park” built over a 14 lane freeway to repair social fabric.
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Antya Waegemann
Designing response systems
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As Seen Below
James Turrell’s new Skyspace Opens at ARoS in June 2026
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Sacha Buliard
Unlearn
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Floating Futures
Studio Malu explores a new relationship between food, climate and territory
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Alexandra Genis
Speculative Gastronomy
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Ananya Khaitan
Justice Communication
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Spiritual District
Stefano Boeri Architetti, the project reimagines the monastery as a civic space.
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Patrick Thomas – Design for Activism
Patrick Thomas shows how graphic design can empower activism and enable collective action in a time shaped by protest and collaboration.
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