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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.

Biochar
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?
Lampoon
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
Lampoon
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
Samuel Ross for Acqua di parma
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
Atelier Midavaine – the lacquered wooden pannel pays tribute to the Maison's flora and fauna
Cartier 13 Paix, Paris: métiers d’art – embroidery, lacquerwork and stone sclupting
Cartier 13 Paix, Paris: iconography with artisanal craftsmanship – reopening the flagship store
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
Lampoon
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
Lampoon
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
Land Life Company
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
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