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Morari by Jesse Altmann, Valentina Lenk and Klara Schneider, as seen at Berlin Design Week 2024
Architecture | 05.05.2024

Berlin Design Week 2024 Compact: Morari by Jesse Altmann, Valentina Lenk and Klara Schneider

Morari by Jesse Altmann, Valentina Lenk and Klara Schneider, as seen at Berlin Design Week 2024 If we're going to entice and encourage ever more individuals in urban spaces to give up their private cars, and, we'll argue, that is desirable not only in terms of tackling the myriad problems of our contemporary urban spaces but also in exposing the fiction of, and the egoistic stupidity of, autonomous cars and flying taxis, we not only need public transport vehicles and networks that are

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radio smow a chairs playlist
Designer | 08.01.2018

Radio smow: A Chairs Playlist

As we've oft noted in these pages, not only have designers since time immemorial had a particular fascination for chairs, but society a particular predilection. Arguably the two are related and can be traced to the long, universal, cultural, political and social relevance of the chair and the act of sitting, a state of affairs which not only makes the physical chair/seat an integral part of our lives, but the metaphorical: excitement brings us to edge of our chairs, those who are brave/foolish

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Airport design | 11.02.2010

(smow)offline: Airport Design

Despite the many disadvantages, problems and general chaos budget airlines have brought into our previously well structured and ordered lives, they have brought one clear advantage: The opportunity to visit really remote airports. More through necessity than freewill, thousands of air travellers now find themselves avoiding the likes of Heathrow, Charles de Gaulle or Frankfurt am Main Airport, and instead experiencing the delights of Klagenfurt, Tampere or Altenburg. At least in all modern

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