Ario Mezzolani
From Prada’s Ugly Chic to Tiktok Cringe Chic
Cringe chic is a fashion evolution from Prada's Ugly Chic. Embracing awkwardness and kitsch, redefining beauty on unconventional terms
Queerbaiting and Rainbow washing: from Harry Style to Frozen
Picture something that seems to start out with the best of intentions but ends up doing worse. The issue of queerbaiting opens the debate to human respect and the need...
Adaptive reuse within a medieval urban fabric: the case of Palazzo Petrvs in Orvieto
A boutique hotel in Orvieto housed in a restored historic palazzo, where architecture, domestic spaces, hospitality and the city’s medieval identity remain closely aligned
Everything but butt – Grindr respects sex offering visibility to side people
The rise of side: «Top or Bottom? I'm a Side». Grindr becomes the first dating app to legitimize the presence in the LGBTQ+ community of sides: men who are not...
The Twink King: from Antinous to Troye and Timothée, the beauty of humanity
Questioning heteronormativity, queerbaiting and binary patriarchy. The twink issue opens a discussion on true inclusiveness within the gay community. Troye Sivan and a video by Timothée Chalamet
Ca’ di Dio: former pilgrim shelter now proceeding with in house water production
Ca' di Dio in Venice: energy savings are twenty percent less than traditional facilities, with an annual emissions reduction of about 110t/CO2 compared to conventional hot water production systems
Sayak Valencia: «Gore capitalism disrupts the Marxist model of consumption»
Sayak Valencia's research results on work conditions. Necropolitics and Gore Capitalism disrupt the Marxist model of production-consumption – the world of work is undergoing a radical change
Yohann Truminski and Noémie Fourmeau, Flexible, an analogical work
«How many bend to the will of others, going against the grain of what we would like to be?» – Yohann Truminski and Noémie Fourmeau release analogic photography, Lampoon Online
