...And that not least because in context of the 2025 edition of Pasasgen Interior Design Week Design Post played host to a presentation of the results of the project Find Your Footprint staged at the Universität der Künste, Berlin, under the guidance of Prof...
..." Our locations for taking advantage of all 31 glorious days of December 2024 can be found in Herford, Philadelphia, Bratislava, Berlin and Caesar's native Rome... sk "Dessauer Strasse and other stories on emancipatory housing" at the Deutsches Architektur Zentrum, DAZ, Berlin, Germany As preparations were being made for the 1987 International Building Exhibition, IBA, in West-Berlin, a group of female architects and planners questioned the male dominance of not only the projects being planned for IBA 87, but of architecture and urban planning in general that the male dominance of IBA 87 reflected, and mobilised themselves as Feministische Organisation von Planerinnen und Architektinnen, FOPA, by way of demanding a less male centric architecture and urban planning...
...With the exhibtion Design for Children the Bröhan Museum, Berlin, explore the relationships between design, children and childhood over the century and a bit of their co-existence... A focus on playgrounds the curators very satisfyingly locate in Berlin, including mapping where examples of Beltzig's designs can be found in the German capital, and thereby encouraging you to get out and explore the works in situ, and in the hands of children not of museum curators and custodians...
...The latter being the case with Berlin based manufacturer vondingen a...
...Our five locations for a party of the spirit, intellect, soul and for improving your understanding of the world material and immaterial around you in October 2024 can be found in Brussels, New York, Hornu, Berlin, and, once the beer tents have been packed away for another year, Munich... be "Design for Children" at the Bröhan Museum, Berlin, Germany There is an argument to be made that 'childhood' as it is popularly understood today is a relatively novel phenomenon; that while all adults were without question once children, not all went through a childhood as understood in the contemporary sense...
...As is the synthetic plastic employed in the Eames RAR that stands, rocks, literally and physically, next to Rietveld's Crate Lounge Chair; a RAR, a member of an Eames' 1950 plastic shell chair family, whose (hi)story is also a succinct overview of the use of synthetic plastics in furniture: originally in fibreglass, at that time an achingly novel material, and, arguably, the first synthetic plastic to enable the production of durable furniture in synthetic plastics, before considerations on the ecological sustainability and impact of fibreglass saw production switch to polypropylene, which itself began to be increasingly questioned in context of its ecological sustainability and impact, questioning which saw Vitra switch production of the Eames plastic shells in 2024 to a novel synthetic plastic won from recycled waste... A 1950s Denmark that also saw the origins of considerations on the possibility of a chair that it would be 1967 before it was realised and 1968 before it became a series product: Verner Panton's eponymous chair through Vitra...
..."You can't lose ideas in a small space" with this simple piece of almost Confucian wisdom Italian architect Renzo Piano explains part the deeper philosophy behind Diogene, his collaboration with Vitra... And the latest object on the Vitra Campus...
