Ibrahim Kombarji

ARCHITECT, RESEARCHER AND WRITING CONTRIBUTOR. IBRAHIM WORKS IN MILAN WITH FORMAFANTASMA, WHERE HE CURRENTLY LEADS MAJOR EXHIBITION DESIGN AND RESEARCH PROJECTS. HE WAS TRAINED AS AN ARCHITECT IN BEIRUT, LUND AND LATELY IN NEW YORK’S COLUMBIA GSAPP. HIS WORK EXPLORES THE ENTANGLEMENTS OF DESIGN AND GEOPOLITICS, LOOKING AT REALITIES RELATED TO THE ATMOSPHERE, THE POWER-PLAY AT BORDERS, AND LATELY THE WAYS IN WHICH CARBON DIOXIDE ACTS AS A POLITICAL DEVICE. HE HAS BEEN FEATURED IN MAGAZINES SUCH AS DOMUS, RUSTED RADISHES, COLUMBIA NEWS, LAMPOON MAGAZINE, URBAN AND MOST RECENTLY IN IT’S FREEZING IN LA! MAGAZINE.

Cultivating our garden: exploring Humberto Campana’s design process

Transcending a Club: Vitelli’s 14 Hour Cosmic Dream show

From High-Fluorescent Tones to Haikus – Samuel Ross for Acqua di Parma

Cartier 13 Paix, Paris: métiers d’art – embroidery, lacquerwork and stone sclupting

Mondo Reale: On playfulness, transversality, materiality and trajectories

Transparency means ‘to go beyond’ and ‘to appear’. Formafantasma in dialogue with Joseph Grima

Can the monster speak? – Dr. Noémi Michel on the politics of voice alternative economies of attention

Planting trees in California or in Spain: there are differences to consider

Biochar: to better understand one of our stronger chances when we ‘kiss the ground’

Soil Sharing: Terra Preta, Biochar and early Bio-economies

Lampoon / The Transition Issue: about Hydrogen, the enormity of scientific research

Ibrahim Kombarji

Lampoon issue 28

Cultivating our garden: exploring Humberto Campana’s design process

Constructing with nature: Humberto Campana’s botanic garden project blossoms as a sanctuary for preserving biodiversity and fostering environmental education

Ibrahim Kombarji

Humanities, Lampoon issue 27

Transcending a Club: Vitelli’s 14 Hour Cosmic Dream show

Vitelli’s presents its fourteen-hour Cosmic Dream fashion show within a rave. The knitwears crafted by Vitelli contextualized in their cosmic imaginary for Lampoon RuVido

Ibrahim Kombarji

Perfumery, raw materials

From High-Fluorescent Tones to Haikus – Samuel Ross for Acqua di Parma

A scented flipbook, containing slits of images, sketches, and notes. The verbiage in the book is immediately accessible, in a Pantone like format

Ibrahim Kombarji

Cartier, Paris

Cartier 13 Paix, Paris: métiers d’art – embroidery, lacquerwork and stone sclupting

Cartier 13 Paix, Paris: iconography with artisanal craftsmanship – reopening the flagship store

Ibrahim Kombarji

Exhibitions, Lampoon Issue 26

Mondo Reale: On playfulness, transversality, materiality and trajectories

Mondo Reale at Triennale Milano: a witty encounter with Formafantasma and Hervé Chandès at The Fondation Cartier, an attempt to disentangle complexities

Ibrahim Kombarji

Lampoon issue 25

Transparency means ‘to go beyond’ and ‘to appear’. Formafantasma in dialogue with Joseph Grima

«We recognie design processes to have an effect and determination, a form of transparency. I am a globalist when it comes to ideas» – Joseph Grima in conversation with Formafantasma

Ibrahim Kombarji

Humanities, Lampoon issue 25

Can the monster speak? – Dr. Noémi Michel on the politics of voice alternative economies of attention

Monster derives from the Latin monstrare, to demonstrate. Dr. Michel’s methodology explores this notion of bringing forward shared realities of others and being transparent

Ibrahim Kombarji

call to action

Planting trees in California or in Spain: there are differences to consider

Land Life Company (LLC) was founded in 2013 on the idea that «a business approach and technology can drive innovation to restore nature» with the mission to reforest the world

Ibrahim Kombarji

call to action

Biochar: to better understand one of our stronger chances when we ‘kiss the ground’

Farmers, activist and scientists are reclaiming our shared soil as the site of regenerative possibilities, from multicultural agricultural fields, potential applications of biochar and hydrochar

Ibrahim Kombarji

naturally sourced

Soil Sharing: Terra Preta, Biochar and early Bio-economies

What and how biochar has become a solution and economical market and what does it mean for us and the upcoming generations?

Ibrahim Kombarji

call to action, Lampoon issue 23

Lampoon / The Transition Issue: about Hydrogen, the enormity of scientific research

With Hydrogen expected to represent almost 25% of global energy end-uses by the year 2050 scientists are defining the energy carriers that will shape it

Ibrahim Kombarji

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Ibrahim Kombarji

Cultivating our garden: exploring Humberto Campana’s design process

Transcending a Club: Vitelli’s 14 Hour Cosmic Dream show

From High-Fluorescent Tones to Haikus – Samuel Ross for Acqua di Parma

Cartier 13 Paix, Paris: métiers d’art – embroidery, lacquerwork and stone sclupting

Mondo Reale: On playfulness, transversality, materiality and trajectories

Transparency means ‘to go beyond’ and ‘to appear’. Formafantasma in dialogue with Joseph Grima

Can the monster speak? – Dr. Noémi Michel on the politics of voice alternative economies of attention

Planting trees in California or in Spain: there are differences to consider

Biochar: to better understand one of our stronger chances when we ‘kiss the ground’

Soil Sharing: Terra Preta, Biochar and early Bio-economies

Lampoon / The Transition Issue: about Hydrogen, the enormity of scientific research

Ibrahim Kombarji

Cultivating our garden: exploring Humberto Campana’s design process

Transcending a Club: Vitelli’s 14 Hour Cosmic Dream show

From High-Fluorescent Tones to Haikus – Samuel Ross for Acqua di Parma

Cartier 13 Paix, Paris: métiers d’art – embroidery, lacquerwork and stone sclupting

Mondo Reale: On playfulness, transversality, materiality and trajectories

Transparency means ‘to go beyond’ and ‘to appear’. Formafantasma in dialogue with Joseph Grima

Can the monster speak? – Dr. Noémi Michel on the politics of voice alternative economies of attention

Planting trees in California or in Spain: there are differences to consider

Biochar: to better understand one of our stronger chances when we ‘kiss the ground’

Soil Sharing: Terra Preta, Biochar and early Bio-economies

Lampoon / The Transition Issue: about Hydrogen, the enormity of scientific research