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Posts tagged 'Technology'

We need to design AI systems free of bias and harm

Artificial intelligence (AI) systems can have damaging effects, especially on marginalised communities. We must build a movement for algorithmic justice Algorithmic Justice League (AJL) founder

Opinion

The design industry too often leaves people behind

Design has been seduced by hypergrowth, leaving behind those with needs not considered profitable. Here’s why that needs to change Words by Harriet Gridley If

Opinion

TECLA is the world’s first 3D-printed house made from raw earth

The ‘zero-waste’ project from Mario Cucinella Architects and WASP proposes a new form of mass-produced, biodegradable housing Words by Francesca Perry In the Italian city

Architecture

The bedside table designed to block your mobile signal

The wooden furniture piece by Agata Nowak features an ‘offline pocket’ for smartphones, to help people disconnect Words by Francesca Perry Polish designer Agata Nowak

Design

Tired of Zoom? Yo-Yo Machines enable long-distance communication through light and movement

Developed by Interaction Research Studio, the makeshift devices allow playful forms of communication to connect those separated by the pandemic Words by Francesca Perry In

Design

Art in the Age of Anxiety diagnoses our post-digital condition

Lynn Hershman Leeson, Shadow Stalker (film still), 2019. Image courtesy the artist and The Shed Icon talks to curator Omar Kholeif about shifting consciousnesses, visualising

Design

In Kunsthaus Graz, Peter Cook turned Archigram ideas into a liveable reality

Kunsthaus Graz by Peter Cook. Image by Markus Schieder/Alamy The ‘friendly alien’ was something of an Archigram reunion that proved a showcase for ideas around

Architecture

What big tech and digital designers can learn from analogue and retro design

Silicon Valley can learn a lot from the enduring appeal of analogue products, says Owen Hopkins About five years ago I started collecting vinyl records.

Opinion

Why technology-focused design won at the Beazley Design of the Year Awards

Detail of Anatomy of An AI System by Kate Crawford and Vladan Joler The Beazley Design of the Year awards show that design and technology

Design

The unhealthy truth about health apps and wellness tech

  Health apps may mean well, but technology has a way of feeding our worst instincts, says Natalie Kane With progress comes technology, and with

Design

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Design London makes LDF debut this September

Finland’s Antti and Vuokko Nurmesniemi are celebrated at Design Museum Helsinki

Top 5 architectural hideaways from around the world

Anthony Caro: The Inspiration of Architecture at Pitzhanger Manor & Gallery focuses on architectural themes within Caro’s sculpture

10 graphic designers around the world you should follow

Architecture Icon: The Paimio Sanatorium and its humanistic approach to modernism

Panoptikum Collections and Valery Kuznetsov put a quirky spin on storage design with their new launch BUGS

How Finland’s great chair designer Yrjö Kukkapuro modelled his designs on casts of his own body

MAD Architects transform old riverfront warehouse into new Rotterdam Danshuis

New exhibition Mirror Mirror: Reflections on Design at Chatsworth is now open




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Top 5 architectural hideaways from around the world

Anthony Caro: The Inspiration of Architecture at Pitzhanger Manor & Gallery focuses on architectural themes within Caro’s sculpture

Architecture Icon: The Paimio Sanatorium and its humanistic approach to modernism

MAD Architects transform old riverfront warehouse into new Rotterdam Danshuis

With Fieldhouse MoDus Architects rethink architecture to create social value

Bell Phillips Architects on public-driven projects and making a difference in architecture

Woodland cabins about an hour from Helsinki set out to provide luxury in a pared-back rural style

The VDL House built by Richard Neutra can now be seen from all over the world

Photographer Elina Brotherus makes herself at home in the Didrichsen Art Museum


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Finland’s Antti and Vuokko Nurmesniemi are celebrated at Design Museum Helsinki

10 graphic designers around the world you should follow

Panoptikum Collections and Valery Kuznetsov put a quirky spin on storage design with their new launch BUGS

How Finland’s great chair designer Yrjö Kukkapuro modelled his designs on casts of his own body

New exhibition Mirror Mirror: Reflections on Design at Chatsworth is now open

Marsèll and Carsten Nicolai invite viewers to explore the unknown with new installation Transmitter / Receiver

What the fight for inclusion needs in 2023

From the Archive: A short history of the iconic Egg Chair by Arne Jacobsen

The sixth edition of COLLECTIBLE brings together the best in contemporary design


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