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Fiona Tan curates a cabinet of fixations in Monomania at the Rijksmuseum
Jul 10, 2025by Hili Perlson Jul 10, 2025
A 19th-century portrait of a kleptomaniac sparked the artist’s yearslong dive into the history of psychiatry.
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3daysofdesign and Other Circle sought design as an encounter, not a spectacle
Jun 25, 2025by Zeynep Rekkali Jensen Jun 25, 2025
3daysofdesign 2025 brought the design world to Copenhagen, but on the city’s terms: human, generous and grounded underneath the long light of Scandinavian summer days.
Indulging in the art of telling with the AI-assisted explorations of studio Tellart
Jun 06, 2025by Jincy Iype Jun 06, 2025
STIR interviews Maia Garau and Tristan Hupe-Guimarães of Tellart, reflecting on how the experiential design studio operates from the intersection of culture, nature and technology.
Digitally Dubai: AI, data art and more, at Art Dubai Digital 2025
Apr 03, 2025by Manu Sharma Apr 03, 2025
This behemoth art fair in West Asia returns with a promising digital art lineup in its 18th year.
Alcova dwells on design and its contentious contexts at Milan Design Week 2025
Apr 03, 2025by Mrinmayee Bhoot Apr 03, 2025
The design platform expands to two new locations in Varedo, exploring themes of decay and reclamation by nature, and ensuring the showcase is an immersive treat for visitors.
What Design Can Do Live New Delhi centres radical collaboration for climate action
Mar 12, 2025by Mrinmayee Bhoot Mar 12, 2025
The South Asian debut of the design event at India Habitat Centre brought together 30 designers, innovators and changemakers to underscore the role design can play in inspiring action.
Rein Wolfs on broadening the conversation around art at Stedelijk Museum
Feb 28, 2025by Manu Sharma Feb 28, 2025
STIR in conversation with the director of the Amsterdam museum about its efforts to build an inclusive programme and collection.
What Design Can Do Live New Delhi debuts in South Asia as a beehive of innovation
Feb 27, 2025by Mrinmayee Bhoot Feb 27, 2025
Taking place at India Habit Centre in New Delhi on March 8, 2025, the multidisciplinary design event will platform conversations on climate action to combat climate change.
ACKM bridges 'The Lite of Passage' with design at the Amsterdam Light Festival
Dec 04, 2024by STIRworld Dec 04, 2024
An immersive installation featuring glowing orbs of light by the Indian design studio swirl synchronically, lighting up the annual festival of lights in Amsterdam.
Paul Finch on World Architecture Festival: Past and Future
Dec 03, 2024by Vladimir Belogolovsky Dec 03, 2024
Vladimir Belogolovsky speaks with Paul Finch about the World Architecture Festival’s history, this year’s winning project, coming to Miami next year and what makes this festival unique.
Threading new narratives: ‘Material Worlds’ pushes the boundaries of textile art
Nov 12, 2024by Hannah McGivern Nov 12, 2024
This group exhibition at Warwick Arts Centre explores how contemporary artists engage with textiles as a medium and a concept to convey ideas of culture, identity and history.
On relating across bodies and contexts: Moe Satt’s first solo show in Europe
Nov 07, 2024by Erin Li Nov 07, 2024
Delfina Foundation curator Erin Li reflects on the long journey to the Burmese artist’s first solo show in Europe, across years of studio visits and slow observation.
Probing the (un)certainties of (un)knowing at Framer Framed’s Amsterdam exhibition
Aug 16, 2024by Mrinmayee Bhoot Aug 16, 2024
Really? Art and Knowledge in Time of Crisis critiques what the public perceives as knowledge, filtered through channels such as newspapers and social media – and the perils of its manipulation.
AIM Architecture on emotionality in mapping resilient architecture
Aug 07, 2024by Vladimir Belogolovsky Aug 07, 2024
Vladimir Belogolovsky interviews Wendy Saunders and Vincent de Graaf of Shanghai-based AIM Architecture, who are against being restricted by any ideology.
'Neuroarchitecture' details mechanisms to achieve human scale within urban spaces
Jun 14, 2024by Almas Sadique Jun 14, 2024
The book, published by nai010 publishers and authored by Frank Suurenbroek and Gideon Spanjar, serves as the culmination of the two-year research project Sensing Streetscapes.
The 'Submerged Heritage' and divergent narrative of Afobaka dam in Suriname
Jun 01, 2024by Almas Sadique Jun 01, 2024
In conversation with STIR, Vincent van Velsen details the human cost of constructing the Afobaka dam in Suriname, heralded as a developmental project by the colonial Dutch entity.
Barbican Centre’s exhibition 'Unravel' weaves transcultural dialogue through textile
Mar 01, 2024by Deeksha Nath Mar 01, 2024
Exploring the subversive potential of textiles, the multigenerational exhibition features over 100 works by 50 international artists and redefines textile art in a global context.
The intricate world of Kustaa Saksi: A journey through art, science, and design
Jan 03, 2024by Zeynep Rekkali Jensen Jan 03, 2024
STIR interviews Finnish multidisciplinary artist and designer Kustaa Saksi, whose works immerse viewers in the worlds inspired by the interplay of perception, myth, and creativity.
Every day is unlike yesterday: The life inside the Möbius House
Jan 01, 2024by Vladimir Belogolovsky Jan 01, 2024
Vladimir Belogolovsky walks through the Möbius House with its designer Ben van Berkel of UNStudio 25 years after its completion.
Crafting waves: The poetic façade of Studio RAP’s 3D printed 'Ceramic House'
Dec 29, 2023by Aarthi Mohan Dec 29, 2023
A tactile journey through innovation, the Ceramic House by Dutch design firm Studio RAP invites you to touch the future of architecture.
Amsterdam Light Festival 2023 converges art, technology, and AI in its 12th edition
Dec 23, 2023by Pooja Suresh Hollannavar Dec 23, 2023
The annual winter festival featuring curated light artworks, sparks conversations on technology's influence on society.
A plunge into Vibhor Sogani's 'Pool of Dreams' at Amsterdam Light Festival 2023
Dec 19, 2023by Anushka Sharma Dec 19, 2023
The acclaimed Indian installation artist partakes in the 12th edition of the light festival with a shimmering installation composed of 100 mirror-finished stainless steel orbs.
Caroline Bos of UNStudio: “Your role is what you make of it”
Oct 20, 2023by Vladimir Belogolovsky Oct 20, 2023
Vladimir Belogolovsky talks to Dutch architect Caroline Bos, who says there is a need to find a good balance between ideas that are new, exciting, and yet comforting.
Ben van Berkel: "Architecture can bring you to another world"
Oct 13, 2023by Vladimir Belogolovsky Oct 13, 2023
Vladimir Belogolovsky speaks with Ben van Berkel of UNStudio whose architecture is optimistic, uplifting, and seamless; he believes buildings can be finetuned like cars.
DRIFT's drone show lights up the sky on the 50th jubilee of the Van Gogh Museum
Aug 16, 2023by Manu Sharma Aug 16, 2023
Studio DRIFT's co-founder Lonneke Gordijn discusses the Dutch multimedia art studio's mesmerising tribute to Vincent van Gogh.
Jonas by Orange Architects aims to become the living room of IJburg in Amsterdam
Aug 11, 2023by Akash Singh Aug 11, 2023
Orange Architects calls the net-zero energy residential project 'an imposing building with a warm heart, and a housing concept that focuses on connections'.
Booking.com's new campus in Amsterdam: a village within the city
Aug 04, 2023by Jeroen Junte Aug 04, 2023
With its dark mirroring facade this monolithic giant looks like an anomaly among the historic buildings. The interior however is a green oasis with plenty of playful retreats for its users. How does this filter of bubble architecture become schizophrenic?
'Vermeer': a landmark retrospective exhibition exploring the Dutch artist’s oeuvre
May 22, 2023by Sukanya Deb May 22, 2023
Rijksmuseum's extended research and curatorial project brings scholarship and conservational insight relating the 17th century Dutch painter to the digital realm.
What Design Can Do announces winners for the Make it Circular Challenge
May 09, 2023by Pooja Suresh Hollannavar May 09, 2023
In association with IKEA Foundation and Impact Hub Amsterdam, What Design Can Do selects 13 examples of innovative excellence in sustainable design, promoting a circular economy.
Why there never will be a next Droog
Mar 24, 2023by Jeroen Junte Mar 24, 2023
Droog, that changed the perspective of design, returns to Milan for the very last time with the show Droog30: Design or Non-Design? at the Triennale di Milano.
Amsterdam Light Festival welcomes all to ‘Imagine Beyond’
Jan 07, 2023by Almas Sadique Jan 07, 2023
With light installations that hint towards a more dynamic future, the festival presents a 53-day experience along the canals of Amsterdam.
Lesia Topolnyk wins 2022 Prix de Rome for Architecture with ‘No Innocent Landscape’
Dec 10, 2022by STIRworld Dec 10, 2022
Granted to architects under the age of 35 in the Netherlands, this year’s prize was centred on the theme of Healing Sites, with 53 unique proposals in the pool of submitted entries.
Digital tapestries: the vibrant AI-powered rug-work of Orkhan Mammadov
Sep 27, 2022by Manu Sharma Sep 27, 2022
Azerbaijani digital artist Orkhan Mammadov discusses his massive digital tapestries that combine history, culture and cutting-edge technology.
ECHO, TU Delft’s new campus addition is driven by human-centric spatial design
Aug 08, 2022by Jincy Iype Aug 08, 2022
UNStudio approached ECHO, TU Delft’s new energy generating, interfaculty teaching building in The Netherlands as an architectural and systemic case study in future flexibility.
BIG and Barcode Architects unveil double cantilevered 'Sluishuis' housing complex
Jul 19, 2022by Jerry Elengical Jul 19, 2022
Boasting a jagged form that hovers over the IJmeer lake in Amsterdam, this 46,000 sqm housing development offers a contemporary take on classical courtyard buildings.
Design fair Collectible 2022 rekindles the direct relationship with material
May 26, 2022by Salvatore Peluso May 26, 2022
STIR asks some of the protagonists of the collectors' design fair how this universe has changed in the last two pandemic years.
STIRring Dreams: Christina Li curates Pilvi Takala’s work for the Finnish Pavilion
Apr 30, 2022by Shraddha Nair Apr 30, 2022
Venice Art Biennale's Finnish Pavilion presents video artist Pilvi Takala's work, curated by Christina Li and produced by Frame Contemporary Art Finland.
Beyond Space is inspired by Amsterdam's scenic IJ river for an office's interior
Apr 25, 2022by Pallavi Mehra Apr 25, 2022
The Dutch design studio covered the inside of Siersema Interieur, an office-cum-showroom, with one kilometre of rippling fabric in blue-green hue, forming cave-like spaces for working.
'City Gazing Dubai' builds an astronomical experience of the overview effect
Feb 27, 2022by Dilpreet Bhullar Feb 27, 2022
The light art installation City Gazing Dubai by VOUW Studio, suspended over DIFC Gate, forges a relationship between human progress, connection and sustainability.
Radha D'Souza and Jonas Staal's exhibition brings climate crimes to court
Dec 23, 2021by Vidur Sethi Dec 23, 2021
In the Court for Intergenerational Climate Crimes in Amsterdam, writer-lawyer Radha D’Souza and artist Jonas Staal mount a large-scale installation in the form of a tribunal.
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