Essay by Alice Rawsthorn
The new year did not start well. Having wrestled with financial crises and political conflicts in six years of struggling to establish a new design school in Chicago, László Moholy-Nagy found himself at loggerheads with the board again at the beginning of 1945: this time over the dearth of students. He also faced the challenge of finding new premises when the lease on the school’s building expired that spring. The first school that Moholy-Nagy opened in Chicago had closed after little more than a year, and the second was now threatened by the same fate. …
Maximilian Hurler — ON ENTREPRENEURSHIP AND DESIGN
AN INTERVIEW WITH MAXIMILIAN HURLER, PARTNER IN THE JOST HURLER GROUP, A REAL ESTATE COMPANY WHICH PLACES THE CREATION OF SUSTAINABLE LIVING SPACES AT THE HEART OF ITS APPROACH TO PROJECT DEVELOPMENT FOR RESIDENTS AND USERS.
Jan Gehl — THE HUMAN METROPOLIS
oriented toward human needs. Over the past few decades,
he has transformed Copenhagen into a model example of a city geared towards tangible
human needs, which has since been copied all over the world.
San Francisco
Studio Futurefarmers, founded by Amy Franceschini in 1995, is a platform for artists, designers, architects, anthropologists, writers and farmers with a common interest in exchanging moments of not-knowing. nomad talked to the Futurefarmers about what that involves, and what results the process delivers.
An interview with
Amy Franceschini & Lode Vranken.
Essay by Mara Recklies
Design revolves around solutions; philosophy around causes. Given this, design asks the core question of how, while philosophy examines why. Design is all about how problems can be solved, how items can take shape, how designers can contribute their skills to best effect. This makes design pretty hands-on and full of drive. I find that exciting, perhaps because of my background in philosophy, where common practice is rather different.
Philosophy has a different manner of addressing the world. Instead of eliminating existing problems as fast as possible by devising solutions for them, it first seeks to…
Messenger of the Global Crisis and a Call for the Great Transformation
Thoughts by Thomas Stocker
