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ICFF 2026 offers a common ground of shared values for global trade concerns
Jun 06, 2026by Pranjal Maheshwari Jun 06, 2026
The furniture fair in New York City engaged its global audience with expanded programming and critical conversations reinforcing the position of design as a connective force.
Tomás Saraceno’s Interwoven navigates poetic spider webs and critical crises
Jun 03, 2026by Bansari Paghdar Jun 03, 2026
At the New Taipei City Art Museum, spiders and geopolitics collide in a dense field of unresolved relationships through installations, sound and participation.
Reinhold Messner Haus is a former cable car station turned alpine monument
Jun 02, 2026by Bansari Paghdar Jun 02, 2026
Plasma Studio transforms an industrial structure on Mount Elmo into a centre for art, regional culture and sustainability, honouring the celebrated climber and explorer.
India Pavilion at Venice Biennale 2026 draws distance between here and home
May 29, 2026by Bakul Patki May 29, 2026
Alwar Balasubramaniam, Asim Waqif, Ranjani Shettar, Skarma Sonam Tashi and Sumakshi Singh map Geographies of Distance, curated by Amin Jaffer.
STIRpad: a launch pad for your new
by Amit Gupta Jul 01, 2021
Explore STIRpad, our brand NEW digital launch pad to help creators, studios, galleries and manufacturers share and demonstrate their NEW collections, exhibitions, special projects, new designs, collaborations, milestones and much more...
Just another brick in the wall: The search for a radical architecture
May 20, 2026by Mrinmayee Bhoot May 20, 2026
In the Building outside the box category of the BRICK AWARD 26, shortlisted designs take the ‘rigid’ form of the brick and give it new meaning for projects fluidly embedded in their contexts.
The 61st Venice Biennale as a sensuous joyride and a triumphant odyssey
May 18, 2026by Rosalyn D`Mello May 18, 2026
Koyo Kouoh’s In Minor Keys brings the fringe to the fore, emphasising artistic resilience amid the apocalypse.
On retrospectives and canons: When does Denise Scott Brown get room at the top?
May 15, 2026by Mrinmayee Bhoot May 15, 2026
An exhibition at the Museum of Fine Arts in Bilbao, Denise Scott Brown: City, Street, House, focuses exclusively on the American architect’s influential contributions to urban analysis.
Staging Black and Indigenous feminist history at the Brazil Pavilion
by Srishti Ojha May 15, 2026
Curator Diane Lima turns to the anti-colonial, feminist works of Rosana Paulino and Adriana Varejão to explore stories of the formerly enslaved and colonised at the biennale.
Global Design Forum Istanbul framed multiple lived worlds of design in contact
Jun 02, 2026by Jigyasa Sharma, Zohra Khan Jun 02, 2026
Presented in collaboration with People Places Ideas, London Design Festival’s global design discourse—held outside London—attracted the passerby as much as design specialists.
Looking for hope and legacy at NYCxDESIGN in New York
May 30, 2026by Sunena V Maju May 30, 2026
From IKONstudio's Halston revival to USM's Food Form Function, NYCxDESIGN 2026 asked the questions that mattered most: Does design still matter, and will any of it last?
On wells, depth and colour: All is Well at RALPH PUCCI International, New York
May 22, 2026by Sunena V Maju May 22, 2026
STIR in conversation with Ralph Pucci and Eric Schmitt discovers how the former’s journey mirrors the latter’s belief that great design quietly outlasts its own time.
Irum Rahat on calling home and her tender meditation on South Asian familiality
May 12, 2026by Zohra Khan May 12, 2026
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