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This Week From The Editor

We are made of time. We are made of emotions. We have an innate creative instinct, an inherent will to know more. Like playdough in a child's hands, we attempt to mould soft thoughts into solid existence through intuitive creativity. This curious continuity of playing, experimenting, and making, centres our creative community, casting order and meaning out of inertness and chaos.

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But how exactly do we nurture that centre more acutely, to master its balance between intrigue, joy, probing, pain, testing, failing, learning, and creating, without compromising on our intuition? In the creative language, there is joy in remaining spontaneous and curious, with an added proclivity towards experimentation. A presence without pretence.

Our issue this week is an ode to the magical acumen of instinct and unabashed creative approaches: ‘Dreams That Money Can Buy’ subverts categories of art and authorship through child play; Ozwald Boateng explores anew, Poltrona Frau's iconic designs; unpacking Tom Sutherland's experience of lighting the 2023 MTV VMA stage; Prats & Flores Arquitectes avoid solving problems too quickly, striving to achieve moments of joy while sculpting intuitive buildings.

Creativity is innately personal and situated. Yet, the creation itself extends to many. How may one reconcile creative intuition to respond sensitively to others’ instincts and distinct stories?

Amit Gupta

STIR in conversation with lighting designer Tom Sutherland
See

Ozwald Boateng on creating a new language with 'Culture and Craft'

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Think

Philip Wiegard probes notions of labour, imagination, & collaboration

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Inspire

Architects Eva Prats and Ricardo Flores on working with light and emotions

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WE Empower, WE Preserve, and WE Sustain

We Design Beirut 2023

The four-day design experience aims to enrich the global design scene by engaging creative talents.

27-30 OCT, 2023
We Design Beirut 2023

Date

27-30 OCT, 2023

LOCATION

Beirut, Lebanon

CONTACT

[email protected]

The multidisciplinary event aims to celebrate and promote design and creativity through a rich program offering designer showcases, installations, talks and workshops, in the fields of interior design, architecture, furniture, product design, functional art, ceramics, rugs and home accessories.

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NEWS

Plastic World: a recce of the history of plastic through the visual art lens

Plastic World: a recce of the history of plastic through the visual art lens

07 MIN READ     Read More

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Wilder Gallery London exhibits sculptural artworks by Hannah Lim

Wilder Gallery London exhibits sculptural artworks by Hannah Lim

04 MIN READ     Read More

Small but mighty

London Design Festival 2023 highlights and demonstrates why group shows are important.

08 MIN READ

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Small but mighty

This year’s LDF had excellent headline installations, but it’s the modest showcases of the collective, local creativity that set the festival apart.

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