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‘Graphic Constellation’: a bold offering for comic lovers in Spain
Feb 11, 2023by STIRworld Feb 11, 2023
Exploring the ethos, history and possible futures of the genre through an offbeat Spanish comics exhibition.
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Can the recent revolution in BioArt revise human relationship to the planet?
Jan 30, 2023by Sunena V Maju Jan 30, 2023
MIT List Visual Arts Centre’s exhibition Symbionts: Contemporary Artists and the Biosphere presents artworks that ‘collaborate’ with symbionts to create BioArt.
Poetry and post-human polar futures: Himali Singh Soin's practice
Jan 24, 2023by Niyati Dave Jan 24, 2023
STIR speaks with Himali Singh Soin and David Soin Tappeser about The Third Pole at Museo Nacional Thyssen-Bornemisza, which creates a subversive fictional mythology of the Polar regions.
'Polimeropolis': a devised floating city urbanising the Great Pacific Garbage Patch
Jan 13, 2023by Sunena V Maju Jan 13, 2023
Estudio Focaccia Prieto proposes Polimeropolis, as an experimental autonomous floating city in the Great Pacific Garbage Patch.
Michael Wang’s debut ‘Lake Tai’ explores the hybridity of natural and artificial ecosystems
Jan 05, 2023by Sukanya Deb Jan 05, 2023
Artist Michael Wang presents a series of sculptural works, utilising reclaimed material and organic waste, at a historical residence in Shanghai, supported by Fondazione Prada.
Five projects reflecting the social and participatory architecture of 2022
Dec 19, 2022by Sunena V Maju Dec 19, 2022
Best of 2022: STIR rounds up five architectural projects that displayed commitment towards community upliftment and helped reinvent a social identity.
A graphic design project looking at the role of objects in shaping humanity
Nov 22, 2022by Sukanya Deb Nov 22, 2022
What Do Objects Want?, a research-driven publication by London-based designer Sundeep Yaya, looks at the ecosystem of objects that inform our lives and shape our realities.
STIR at Next Design Perspectives 2022, an initiative by Altagamma at Triennale Milano
Nov 17, 2022by Samta Nadeem Nov 17, 2022
The conference themed Design in Flux, curated by Beatrice Leanza, featured a host of prominent curators and creatives such as Aric Chen, Quayola, and Brendan McGetrick.
Tbilisi Art Fair at the Expo Georgia boosts art and culture of the region
Oct 30, 2022by Daria Kravchuk Oct 30, 2022
Art week in the framework of Tbilisi Art Fair fused the cultures of openness and shaped a new way of experiencing the fabric of the city.
Ulf Mejergren on "collaborating with nature" for his 'Primitive Huts' series
Aug 23, 2022by Jerry Elengical Aug 23, 2022
In a conversation with STIR, the Swedish architect dives into the notion of 'The Primitive Hut' and its influence on his firm’s installations made using alternative materials.
Triennale Milano's 'Unknown Unknowns' offers new perspectives of our ecosystem
Jul 22, 2022by Salvatore Peluso Jul 22, 2022
Curated by astrophysicist Ersilia Vaudo, the exhibition presents more than one hundred works by creatives "who confront themselves – more or less explicitly – with the unknown".
'Café Classroom': a pursuit to relearn relationship across humans and nature
Jul 05, 2022by Dilpreet Bhullar Jul 05, 2022
In the last of the three-part series, Café Classroom, curated by Pradip Saha, underlined the collective efforts required to combat the dire consequences of air pollution.
The 2022 Toronto Biennial of Art evoked ties between land, water, and human
Jun 28, 2022by Dilpreet Bhullar Jun 28, 2022
Toronto Biennial of Art: What Water Knows, The Land Remembers, with various artists and indigenous communities explored natural world and the colonial history of Toronto.
Jen Mergel on Frederick Law Olmsted’s indelible legacy at Boston Design Week 2022
Jun 22, 2022by Jerry Elengical Jun 22, 2022
The Director of Experience and Cultural Partnerships for Boston's Emerald Necklace Conservancy speaks on Olmsted’s ideals and highlights events for his bicentennial.
Bruz Utopia Housing by Champenois Architectes explores idyllic community living
Jun 17, 2022by Jerry Elengical Jun 17, 2022
Situated near the centre of Bruz, a town in northwestern France, this housing complex channels contrasts, with a greenhouse-like atrium and intersecting gangways above public gardens.
Formafantasma's Prada Frames symposium to contemplate forest ecologies in Milan
May 27, 2022by Jerry Elengical May 27, 2022
At the National Braidense Library as part of Milan Design Week 2022, the event will examine relationships between design, the built environment, and nature over three days of talks.
Of tigers and wolves: two films tackling conservation from an ecofeminist lens
Apr 25, 2022by Rosalyn D`Mello Apr 25, 2022
Indian scriptwriter Aastha Tiku’s film, Sherni, shares ideological resonances with a work-in-progress by a South Tyrolean museologist and researcher duo.
Digital Legacies: Nature’s Backend
Feb 09, 2022by Julius Wiedemann Feb 09, 2022
Julius Wiedemann delves into the union of technology and conservation in sustainable reforestation, through the eyes of Brazilian projects Symbiosis Investimentos and Coomflona.
Suntakhan: Do we design the land, or does the land design us?
Jan 15, 2022by Anne Feenstra, Rabita Shakya Jan 15, 2022
'Design with nature’ is the quintessential guiding principle for a collaborative team in the Himalayan mountain range.
Earthshot Prize 2021 winners herald a decisive decade of climate action
Nov 01, 2021by STIRworld Nov 01, 2021
Instituted by Prince William and the United Kingdom’s Royal Foundation, the inaugural edition of the Earthshot Prize revealed five winners in a glittering ceremony in London.
Orproject’s sculptural installation Khoral is attentive to the human threat to marine life
Oct 17, 2021by Dilpreet Bhullar Oct 17, 2021
Khoral by Orproject, made with biodegradable paper, takes viewers a step closer to flourishing marine life that now faces the dire consequences of ocean pollution.
Patricia Piccinini's hyperreal sculptures emphasise the reality of anthropomorphism
Oct 08, 2021by Dilpreet Bhullar Oct 08, 2021
The idea of anthropomorphism embedded in the hyperreal sculptures by the Australian artist Patricia Piccinini is a way to forge a relationship between the world of humans and animals.
Melissa McGill’s ‘In Venice’: a creative take on the ecological shift borne by Venice
Sep 10, 2021by Dilpreet Bhullar Sep 10, 2021
The exhibition In Venice by Melissa McGill, with a variety of works on the city of Venice, introduces the audience to the environmental changes the city has experienced.
Digital Legacies: Nature
Jul 13, 2021by Julius Wiedemann Jul 13, 2021
Julius Wiedemann traces the evolution of relationships between technology and nature throughout history while delving into what they may spell out for the future.
A timber grid inspired by Chinese roofs enfolds Sanya Farm Lab by CLOU architects
Jul 13, 2021by Jerry Elengical Jul 13, 2021
Showcasing advancements in agricultural science, an intricate network of voids, spaces, and platforms defines exhibition and retail spaces of this research facility in Sanya, China.
Climate care and planet love inform the Vienna Biennale for Change 2021
Jul 12, 2021by Aastha D. Jul 12, 2021
STIR speaks with Elisabeth Falkensteiner and Baerbel Mueller, the curators for Ecologies and Politics of the Living at the Vienna Biennale that aims to inspire alternative imaginations.
Delugan Meissl designs Taiyuan Botanical Garden with domed greenhouses in China
Jul 05, 2021by Jerry Elengical Jul 05, 2021
Vienna-based Delugan Meissl Associated Architects revitalises a former coal mining zone in the city of Taiyuan, transforming it into a fluid green landscape with bermed structures.
Digital Legacies: Ecosystems
Jun 15, 2021by Julius Wiedemann Jun 15, 2021
Julius Wiedemann breaks down the interwoven web of systems, products and services orchestrated to engage and interconnect every aspect of our daily lives.
UK-based Full Grown takes STIR through a tour of their ‘Chair Orchard’
Jun 05, 2021by Devanshi Shah Jun 05, 2021
Alice and Gavin Munro of Full Grown takes us on a tour of their furniture orchard, their labour of love, a blueprint for what a design-led ecological restoration project could look like.
Sonia Mehra Chawla’s works explore ideas of cohabitation of all life forms on Earth
Jun 04, 2021by Rahul Kumar Jun 04, 2021
At a solo presentation titled (Un) Containable Life, at 1x1 Art Gallery in Dubai, artist Sonia Mehra Chawla showcases a transmedia practice that included her works from 2013-2020.
Lab Pollinator leads discussion and debate on real-time scenarios
Feb 20, 2021by Dilpreet Bhullar Feb 20, 2021
The team at the interdisciplinary lab Pollinator critiques the issues engulfing contemporary times to open a path of conversations.
Can a 'new' arts ecosystem replace a non-existent 'old' one?
Apr 09, 2020by Rosalyn D`Mello Apr 09, 2020
A recent magazine cover went to great lengths to rehabilitate a star artist who was accused of sexual harassment, and herald a 'new' order.
Tom Dixon and IKEA explore urban gardening at the Chelsea Flower Show
Jul 17, 2019by STIRworld Jul 17, 2019
This collaboration imagines the future of urban farming and find solutions to grow plants and vegetables at home for a healthier and sustainable lifestyle.
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