Agnese Torres
Agroforestazione a Milano: nel Parco Sud suoli al 4,2% di sostanza organica
Nel Parco della Vettabbia, Soulfood Forestfarms sviluppa un’agroforesta con alberi, colture e pascolo: suoli al 4,2%, biomassa e pratiche rigenerative per aumentare fertilità e produzione locale Agroforestazione rigenerativa a Milano...
Cinque Vie Milano: distretto di design, botteghe, artigiani – quale omologazione?
Dal foro romano alle botteghe artigiane fino alla Design Week: Ernesta Del Cogliano ed Emanuele Tessarolo raccontano 5VIE e il rilancio delle Cinque Vie
Il lavoro delle donne rurali tra tutela delle aree fragili e sfida alla disuguaglianza
Coltivano il 40% del cibo ma possiedono meno del 20% della terra – il 2026 è l'Anno della Donna Agricoltrice voluto dall’ONU. Intervista a Chiara Nicolosi, co-fondatrice di Donne in Campo
Milano e gli alberi: se manca il verde, il costo della vita cresce
Crisi abitativa a Milano: il 50% dei residenti ha bisogno di case accessibili – e con 1.500 euro mensili può permettersi di acquistare un’abitazione di 15 mq. Claudio Bertona, fondatore...
La crisi idrica in Lombardia accelera la trasformazione dell’agricoltura
Gestione delle falde, carbonio nel suolo e nuovi modelli produttivi: Maddalena Gioia Gibelli, presidente di Casa dell’Agricoltura, racconta una transizione agricola forzata tra clima, economia e politiche carenti
Dalla cava alla lavorazione: la corsa del marmo verso una filiera più sostenibile
Estrazione, consumo d’acqua e scarti rendono il marmo un materiale ad alto impatto – ma riciclo, tecnologia e artigianalità aprono la strada a una filiera più responsabile. Intervista a Emanuele...
Milano città-spugna: all’acqua non piace l’asfalto
L’ingegneria civile non basta: Milano riparta dalle aree verdi – spazi vivi che assorbono acqua, mitigano il calore, incrementano la biodiversità e restituiscono respiro alla città
Back to Seed la docuserie su Planet Farms: Luca Travaglini e Daniele Benatoff
Planet Farms porta la logica del vertical farming nel tessile: fibra di cotone a impatto zero, tracciabilità blockchain e una nuova idea di sovranità produttiva per l’Italia. Intervista al co-founder e...
Exploring Hemp in Design: Yasmin Bawa abandons concrete for hempcrate
«When I abandoned concrete, I managed to find something that is the opposite: it is breathable, permeable, not toxic». Yasmin Bawa’s production from concrete to hempcrate
Terraformae and the raw vitality of terracotta: design must get its hands dirty
Terraformae explores terracotta’s circular potential—recyclable, binder-free, and with up to 70% lower CO₂ emissions than cement—through design-led experimentation and process optimization
Mediterranean Canvas: How CAN Ibiza Paints a New Identity for the Island
As the 2025 edition closes, the fair’s founding curator Saša Bogojev reflects on four years of building a boutique art platform that resists aesthetic clichés and champions global relevance
Piet Hein Eek’s Work with Wood Scrap: “There Are No Poor Materials”
From scrapwood cabinets to masterworks: the story of a Dutch Designer who built a global creative ecosystem around circular design, teamwork, and manufacturing Integrity
Terraforma Exo 2025 explores sound as a tool for ecological transformation
From the green heart of Parco Sempione to the layered histories of Villa Tasca, Terraforma Exo 2025 turns architecture and landscape into instruments. An interview with founder Ruggero Pietromarchi
Deb Koo’s still life paintings pay homage to the fleeting moments that mold our lives
Saturated tones and pastel palettes intertwine in Deb Koo’s oil paintings portraying mundane moments, personal experiences and memories from her childhood
A Storm in Grandma’s Tea Set: Amit Berman on roughness and nostalgia
«Roughness has been present in my work since the beginning; as a self-taught artist, I used to paint naively, working with what I had and expressing myself in raw ways»...
Adriàn Castañeda: Mantenga la calma at Madrid Art Week
Founded as an alternative platform to traditional contemporary art spaces, UVNT Art Fair returned to Matadero Madrid for its ninth edition. An interview with Adriàn Castañeda on his public installation
Gli scarti della produzione intensiva dell’olio d’oliva in Andalusia diventano design
La Spagna domina il mercato dell’olio d’oliva coprendo il 20% del fabbisogno mondiale, ma qual è il prezzo da pagare in termini ambientali? Interviene il designer spagnolo Jorge Penadés, che...
The Waste from Andalusia’s Intensive Olive Oil Production Becomes Design
Spain dominates the olive oil market, covering 40-50% of the world’s demand, but what is the environmental cost? Spanish designer Jorge Penadés presents his project Uprooted
Can We Escape Consumerism? Black Friday Through the Cultural Humor of Marivan Martins
From Target shoppers fighting over a Stanley cup to an ambulance used for deliveries—I decided to make a book inspired by real news events.” Brazilian photographer Marivan Martins recounts the...
Copenhagen Contemporary. Designing art projects in the 7,000-square-foot of the B&W welding hall
In contrast with many art centers and institutions which implemented digital strategies to overcome the challenges imposed by the pandemic, Contemporary remains phisical
Lago di Como: il presente e il futuro del Lario
Come è nato il brand Lake Como? Tra lago e città è in atto una metamorfosi – una riflessione su urbanistica, società e sostenibilità, e i numeri dell’overtourism
How did the Lake Como brand emerge?
Chanel Cruise 2025/26 on Lake Como – while a transformation is underway, bridging the lake and the city—a reflection on urban planning, society, sustainability, and the numbers of overtourism
Lyra Pramuk’s manifesto for Robot15: Transition
In its fifteenth edition, the Italian electronic music festival reaffirms its research-based and experimental nature by presenting emerging names and a few great comebacks – Lyra Pramuk drafted the manifesto
CHART Art Fair, Copenaghen. Interview with Director Julie Quottrup Silbermann
Neo Nordic Architecture challenged the white cube gallery format with a flexible wall system which lets the daylight through to illuminate the artworks – while at night it can be lighten...
CØR and VAUST bring Berlin’s roughness to Paris
The creative heart of Paris is home to a brutalist space designed by the Berlin-based studio VAUST dedicated to exploring collectible design and functional art
Nel distretto design della Brianza: Molteni Mondo
Molteni Mondo – la monografia edita da Rizzoli in occasione dei 90 anni di Molteni&C. Vincent Van Duysen racconta il suo ruolo di Direttore Creativo tra minimalismo e ricerca della...
Denim and upcycling stories: from Miu Miu to Vitelli
An upcycled jean emits up to 83 percent less CO2 than a new one - Miu Miu's latest Upcycled collection and other efforts to explore the potential of vintage denim...
Denim e upcycling: da Miu Miu a Vitelli
Un jeans upcycled emette fino all’83% di CO2 in meno rispetto a uno nuovo – l’ultima collezione Upcycled di Miu Miu e altri tentativi per esplorare il potenziale del denim...
Kiki van Eijk: the primitive roots of rough design
Dutch designer Kiki van Eijk seeks a stable balance between human-made and nature through a sustainable approach which relies on the properties of raw materials and the expertise of craftsmen
Knitwear and wool: the future of a circular economy in textiles
Knitwear comes to the rescue with naturally sourced fibers and artisanal production processes with low environmental impact – some projects presented during the Loro Piana Knit Design Awards 2024
William Kentridge: «Identity is a continuous construction»
In Self-Portrait as a Coffee-Pot the South African artist reflects on humanity in a close dialogue with his alter-ego, a metaphor for the artist’s critical eye
Brands and independent publishing: the Bottega Veneta case
Today brands play a role in the promotion and diffusion of independent fashion publishing which seems to be experiencing a new golden age – the Bottega Veneta fanzine
The Squalid realism of Richard Billingham in Ray’s a Laugh
The analog photography and the intellectual irony of Richard Billingham reflects the crudeness of a youth spent under the weight of alcoholism and poverty in the Black Country
We do celebrate the vulva – Bex Day’s book PETAL
Over seventy shots celebrating the vulva and subverting the biased canons of the representation of the female nude in contemporary society – Bex Day’s first photographic book
Marion Baruch: humans made textile before writing
The curiosity towards humanity, the desire to experiment with the unknown, fabric and movement: the Romanian textile artist talks about her latest solo show
When real life can be extraordinary, why Dream About Nothing?
Nature and artifice, beauty and roughness – reality according to the photographer Bobby Doherty. The hallucinatory imagery and still life photography of his latest book Dream About Nothing
Sharing life with a 100 kg pig: Feng Li’s human-animal friendship
Note Note Edition's latest photographic book. The intellectual humor of Chinese photographer Feng Li and his strange relationship of friendship with his pig rescued from a tragic fate
Alice Rosati’s aesthetics of collective fear: gothic literature and sci-fi visions
From alien invasions to eco-anxiety. The photographer Alice Rosati gives voice to collective fears through a post-apocalyptic scenario and her rough analog photography
Changing economies, changing societies, changing design – the Bouroullec brothers
The rhythms and habits of work nowadays are increasingly oppressive. The Bouroullec brothers have a solution to turn it around through design: it's cat ergonomics
Jeremy Hutchison: «I’m interested in perverting dominant culture. Queering power»
Waste colonialism and consumerism, environmental and social justice: the British artist’s latest project, Dead White Man, investigates the fate of the used clothes we send to the Global South
The shape of the democratic Japan – Kagawa Prefectural Government Offices
Kenzo Tange’s Prefectural Government building is a fusion between Japanese design traditions and modernist style: the role of architecture in the reconstruction of post-war Japan
Women’s bodies and their sexuality – Serena de Ferrari for Lampoon Digital
Serena talks on about the love-hate relationship with her body, her acting role in Mare Fuori, which tested her psycho-physical state
Ortigia Sound System – the island’s renovation and the Tropicalization of the Mediterranean
How has the island of Ortigia in Sicily changed thanks to a redevelopment plan and the birth of both cultural projects, headed by the Ortigia Sound System? A reportage
Design is a metamorphosis: the manipulation process of Audrey Large and Théophile Blandet
French designers Audrey Large and Théophile Blandet: «we use digital image manipulation tools: digital manufacturing is an area for bridging virtual and physical through objects»
Another World: the body of the earth, the body of the woman
Shae Detar, and the book Another World – the shots were manipulated through a hand-painting technique popularized during the 19th century: she paints on top of her photographs
Charlotte Perriand hidden work: The Japanese Ambassador’s residence in Paris
The building on rue du Faubourg St Honoré in Paris is the concept subversion of domestic space conceived by Charlotte Perriand – an incursion of Japanese minimalism
