As we've often noted in these pages, the future will be analogue. That's not to say that we will turn our backs on all our modern technology, but much more as technology takes over ever more aspects of our daily lives and as we understand what technology can do and how best to harness it, not only will we be freed to concentrate on those things which genuinely matter to us but we will have ever more freedom to organise and lead our lives as we want, freed from the conventions and constraints
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We spend a lot of our time in exhibitions. A lot. And a lot more travelling to and from exhibitions. But are we wasting our time? Guus Beumer, director of Het Nieuwe Instituut in Rotterdam, believes so. And he is a man who has spent even more of his life in exhibitions than us. Both as viewer and as curator; perhaps most notably as artistic director of the 2009 Utrecht Manifest, Biennial for Social Design and as curator of the Dutch Pavilion at the 2011 Venice Biennale. On Thursday April
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Back in April 2010 we reported that Dutch design anarchos Droog were planning a hotel in Amsterdam. On September 16th 2012 Hôtel Droog will finally open for business. And because it's from Droog, Hôtel Droog has only one bedroom. Which is really an apartment. The majority of the complex is taken up with all those things that in a "normal" hotel would be of secondary importance to the accomodation: eating, drinking, shopping, being pampered or relaxing in a garden. Situated in a 17th century
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