Designers can – and should – have local impact
The pandemic has activated designers to expand their traditional roles – and we’re not going back, write Andrew Brown and Katherine Sacco
Powered by dance: Glasgow arts centre generates energy from clubbers
The Bodyheat project at SWG3 shows how designing renewable energy systems can be fun, too
Mac Collins wins Design Museum’s new annual prize
The young furniture designer receives the inaugural Ralph Saltzman Prize, a new award that celebrates emerging designers
Levi’s launches recycled and recyclable jeans
The new, circular version of the iconic 501 jeans is another step in the fashion industry's reckoning with its environmental footprint
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Vietnamese tea factory transformed into museum
The adaptive reuse project in Vietnam’s Central Highlands creates a cultural hub steeped in history
Foster + Partners designs Datong Art Museum
A series of corten steel-clad pyramidal forms defines this sunken museum in northeastern China
Women of architecture celebrated in MAXXI exhibition
Dorte Mandrup, Liz Diller and Mariam Kamara among those featured in new exhibition in Rome
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Enjoy the confidence of contactless hygiene in a smart, minimal design
Powered by dance: Glasgow arts centre generates energy from clubbers
The Bodyheat project at SWG3 shows how designing renewable energy systems can be fun, too
Mac Collins wins Design Museum’s new annual prize
The young furniture designer receives the inaugural Ralph Saltzman Prize, a new award that celebrates emerging designers
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Designers can – and should – have local impact
The pandemic has activated designers to expand their traditional roles – and we’re not going back, write Andrew Brown and Katherine Sacco
We need to design AI systems free of bias and harm
Artificial intelligence (AI) systems can have damaging effects, especially on marginalised communities, says Sasha Constanza-Chock
The dark arts of Big Oil advertising
Green fields, blue skies and nostalgic architecture: the fossil fuel advertising of 20th-century Britain inspired delusion. Now we are not such willing participants
