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The shape of memory: Negotiating visibility in Chan Hau Chun’s Map of Traces
Aug 18, 2025by Avani Tandon Vieira Aug 18, 2025
The Hong Kong artist’s moving image work examines loss and persistence in a fragmented urban landscape.
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Logo Rhythm: hot lips, drop Ts and other marques that made rock music immortal
Aug 14, 2025by Jincy Iype Aug 14, 2025
In Circa Press’ Logo Rhythm, Jim K Davies and Jamie Ellul chart 90+ band logos, from Zeppelin’s sigils to Metallica’s bolts, unearthing the myths behind rock’s iconic symbols.
Roots, seeds and slow activism at the Edinburgh Art Festival 2025
Aug 12, 2025by Vamika Sinha Aug 12, 2025
This year’s Edinburgh Art Festival takes a slower, deeper curatorial approach, integrating within its home city more than ever before.
Building with voices: how communities led London Festival of Architecture 2025
Aug 11, 2025by Anushka Sharma Aug 11, 2025
From sonic journeys to inclusive design, LFA 2025 brought architecture to the streets—spotlighting lived experience and local agency in shaping London’s built environment.
Architecture and Video Games posits virtual worlds as spaces of architectural thought
Aug 07, 2025by Bansari Paghdar Aug 07, 2025
A reflective essay on the Routledge publication harps on the two intertwined media to discuss collaborative worldbuilding, authorship, user agency and cultural memory.
The Bagri Samaya series celebrates and amplifies women’s voices
Jul 30, 2025by Srishti Ojha Jul 30, 2025
The Bagri Foundation’s series, A Woman Hums: Women, Voice, Creativity, brings together women curators, artists, filmmakers and writers from across Asia and its diaspora.
Serving ‘lewks’ and ‘aesthetics’ with Virtual Beauty at Somerset House
Jul 28, 2025by Mrinmayee Bhoot Jul 28, 2025
An exhibition at the London-based institute curated by Gonzalo Herrero Delicado, Mathilde Friis, and Bunny Kinney harps on the effects of digital media on our physical lives.
Speculative cities of dissonance in CJ Lim and Luke Angers' Dreams + Disillusions
Jul 25, 2025by Jincy Iype Jul 25, 2025
Published by Routledge, the book redraws the built environment through satire, storytelling and speculative drawing – a reminder that architecture is, first and always, a fiction.
PEARCE+ on optimising scarcity and building as an act of commitment
Jul 24, 2025by Anushka Sharma Jul 24, 2025
Owen Hughes Pearce, founder of the UK-based studio, discusses with STIR the core tenets of his experimental practice and how it defies standardised models of architecture.
In her own image: The radical practice of Emma Amos
Jul 23, 2025by Deeksha Nath Jul 23, 2025
Amos shaped a practice of formal innovation and political resistance, centring the frontal figure as a site of radical visibility and cultural critique.
The lay of the land: Deep-time ecologies at the Folkestone Triennial 2025
Jul 22, 2025by Sofia Hallström Jul 22, 2025
Amidst ecological crises and geopolitical disorientation, the Folkestone Triennial 2025 explores a deep-time ecology of ritual, resistance and repair.
Nina’s House: A 1970s home in London turns fossil fuel-free through a natural retrofit
Jul 21, 2025by Anushka Sharma Jul 21, 2025
Nina+Co and ROAR partner on the regenerative retrofitting of a South Tottenham house, prioritising performance over footprint.
Between flame and form: After Ash traces possibilities of wood-fired ceramics
Jul 07, 2025by Anushka Sharma Jul 07, 2025
London-based initiative County Hall Pottery unveils a group show with eight ceramic artists recasting wood-fired ceramics as innovative and experimental entities.
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.
A London exhibition reflects on shared South Asian histories and splintered maps
Jun 19, 2025by Samta Nadeem Jun 19, 2025
(Un)Layering the future past of South Asia: Young artists' voices emphasises regional interconnectedness, despite ongoing geopolitical tensions.
A cabinet of curiosities, laid bare: V&A East Storehouse rethinks the museum archetype
Jun 13, 2025by Jincy Iype Jun 13, 2025
STIR speaks to Elizabeth Diller and David Allin of DS+R, and Tim Reeve of V&A, on the accessible, custodial and generous nature of the new V&A Storehouse in London.
At the Hayward Gallery, Yoshitomo Nara asks you to feel what cannot be seen
Jun 13, 2025by Zohra Khan Jun 13, 2025
A travelling retrospective of the celebrated Japanese artist’s work comes to London, spanning four decades of practice.
Casa Mexicana chronicles the evolving morphology of Mexican homes
Jun 12, 2025by Aarthi Mohan Jun 12, 2025
From austere retreats to luxury villas, this book by Edmund Sumner and Jonathan Bell offers a vivid exploration of the building art of Mexican homes.
The Outer Forces, Power Lines and Inner Selves activating the Global Design Forum
Jun 09, 2025by Jincy Iype Jun 09, 2025
Under the title Design and the Invisible, GDF at the London Design Biennale 2025 unveils how unseen forces and radical ideas shape the future of design.
Cosmology, science and spirituality converge in Sonia Leimer’s Cosmic Dust
Jun 05, 2025by Bansari Paghdar Jun 05, 2025
The Vienna-based artist presents Dust Buddies, a series of sculptures inspired by microscopic extraterrestrial particles as cosmological explorations.
“Temporality has a presence,” says Marina Tabassum on the Serpentine Pavilion 2025
Jun 03, 2025by Mrinmayee Bhoot Jun 03, 2025
STIR interviews the Bangladeshi architect on her commission for the 25th Serpentine Pavilion, probing its parallels with her studio's work and its contextual and ephemeral ethos.
Delaine Le Bas on language and power, and making interactive art
May 30, 2025by Srishti Ojha May 30, 2025
The British artist’s new exhibition, Fabricating My Own Myth – Red Threads & Silver Needles, at Newcastle Contemporary Art highlights the political power of presence.
London Design Biennale 2025 to paint the Somerset House in Surface Reflections
May 30, 2025by Anushka Sharma May 30, 2025
Talks, installations, screenings and interactive pavilions await as London hosts a city-wide dynamic celebration of design, innovation and the forces that guide them.
‘Walk the House’ explores Do Ho Suh’s poetic fabrications of home and belonging
May 29, 2025by Aarthi Mohan May 29, 2025
The South Korean artist's ongoing showcase at the Tate Modern captures the essence of migration and layered memories of home.
Andreu World toasts to 70 years with Travel well seated at Clerkenwell Design Week
May 24, 2025by Andreu World May 24, 2025
From sustainable design roots to a global vision for hospitality, Andreu World’s 70-year celebration in London explores the future of spaces where we travel.
Crafted modernism: Holloway Li’s vibrant reimagining of Club Quarters Hotel St Paul’s
May 20, 2025by Anushka Sharma May 20, 2025
In a conversation with STIR, Alex Holloway and Carrie Conings of Holloway Li dive into the project’s post-war charm, bespoke craftsmanship and contemporary functionality.
A history of Okinawa, through photographer Mao Ishikawa’s lens
May 16, 2025by Rhea Mathur May 16, 2025
A retrospective of the Japanese photographer’s work at Mead Gallery in Coventry highlights the zeal of an artist committed to combating oppression and capturing resistance.
An edifice of 'Voices': London Festival of Architecture maps sites of inclusion & care
May 09, 2025by Anushka Sharma May 09, 2025
The LFA 2025, themed Voices, with an expansive programme of exhibitions, workshops, talks and more, challenges visitors to listen closely to the perspectives that shape urban life.
Sordo Madaleno Arquitectos on balancing acts of belonging to the land
May 09, 2025by Jincy Iype May 09, 2025
Speaking with STIR, the Mexican firm's partner, Fernando Sordo Madaleno, reflects on the multigenerational architectural practice's creative ethos and evolving identity.
OntheSq by Irenie Studio is 'a living wonderland' coloured by co-creation
May 08, 2025by Jincy Iype May 08, 2025
'Curiouser and curiouser!': with eclectic scales, thresholds and illusions, the renovated Neo-Jacobean structure coalesces historic architecture and contemporary design.
Imagined Communities: National Pavilions at the Venice Architecture Biennale 2025
May 07, 2025by Mrinmayee Bhoot May 07, 2025
National participants at the architecture biennale explore resource efficiency, adaptability and sustainability, foregrounding national aspirations and universal applications.
From Milan to London: Global design weeks as barometers and battlegrounds
May 02, 2025by Debika Ray May 02, 2025
A case of two cities—both bona fide global cultural capitals—reveals insights on precarity in the creative industries, fleeting trends and engagement in making, beyond numbers.
'Art For Your Oceans' gathers leading artists to raise funds for the WWF
May 01, 2025by Manu Sharma May 01, 2025
This selling exhibition has been conceived as a collaboration between WWF, Artwise curators and Sotheby’s, to further ocean conservation initiatives across the UK.
‘Rise Up’: Bridging memory and reparative justice at The Fitzwilliam Museum
Apr 29, 2025by Rhea Mathur Apr 29, 2025
A museum at Cambridge University examines Britain’s role in the transatlantic slave trade between 1750-1850, and its collection’s dark past.
‘Empowerment - Art and Feminisms’ shines a light on the radical positions of feminist art
Apr 24, 2025by Mrinmayee Bhoot Apr 24, 2025
This travelling exhibition, on view at Travancore Palace, presents works by artists who centre feminism to speak out against injustices against minority communities.
Monumental intimacies: Ron Mueck at MMCA Seoul
Apr 21, 2025by Lee Daehyung Apr 21, 2025
For his first solo exhibition in Korea, Mueck presents sculptures conceived across three decades which draw us inward, beckoning reflection on the nature of existence.
‘Architecture After War’ posits a guide for post-war reconstruction in Ukraine
Apr 18, 2025by Almas Sadique Apr 18, 2025
The book, co-published by MACK and CANactions and edited by Bohdan Kryzhanovsky, comprises several essays citing historical examples of resilience across countries.
Isola Design Festival 2025 energises Milan with 'Conscious Objects' at Isola
Apr 12, 2025by Almas Sadique Apr 12, 2025
The design exhibition, on view at BasicVillage within the Isola Design District, encapsulates objects that stimulate the mind, vision, touch, movement and emotions of visitors.
Peter Cook's 'Play Pavilion' for Serpentine is a theatre of formative play
Apr 09, 2025by Bansari Paghdar Apr 09, 2025
In collaboration with the LEGO Group, the pavilion launches on World Play Day, inviting communal engagement and participation through a permeable built form.
LAGO Collective visually and aurally chronicles visa inequalities in Europe
Apr 07, 2025by Almas Sadique Apr 07, 2025
Marta Foresti continues the Collective's enduring exploration of the costs, difficulties and racial biases effacing visa acquisition for the EU at the Prada Frames symposium, Milan.
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