Magazine
IPCC’s WG2 2022 report – Every fraction of a degree prevented saves lives
Climate change is contributing to humanitarian crises where climate hazards interact with high vulnerability, and it is driving displacement
Showcasing savoir-faire and craftsmanship, Louis Vuitton perpetuates the traditions of its founder
Up to 300 people working in a single workshop; divided into two areas to encourage a sense of community and the transmission of skills from generation to generation
No One You Know, a short movie by the artist Danijel Žeželj for C’mon Tigre new release
Mixing sounds and rhythms from Africa to the Mediterranean Sea, C'mon Tigre and Croatian cartoonist Danijel Žeželj tells us stories of humanity and nude reality
‘Sweet voyeur’ is an incubator of love – two people making sex and existence like a pulse
From their home-studio in Milan, photographers Armando Bruno and Mauro Maglione explore voyeurism and the ‘invasiveness’ of the camera
Global food security is not well managed: the effects of climate change and the war in Ukraine
Wheat is a basic diet element, Russia and Ukraine are among the biggest producers. We followed current patterns across the globe with PhD Jonas Jägermeyr
Jonathan Arundel, postcards from South East England coast – London seems a million miles away
Photographer Jonathan Arundel set his documentary story inspired by the unusual South Coast of England. Images that fade into the humidity of the sea and a time that seems to...
Embracing technology: the only way to keep hand weaving with the new generation
From Italy to India to Wales. How the culture of hand weaving is undergoing just enough modernization to keep it alive, but not enough to kill the traditional craft completely
Alex Black – a catalog of unearned Montreal’s nooks, crannies and talents
A duplication of imagery and scale acts as a means of equating the objects and the subjects. A collection of Montreal's creativity overlooked by the international fashion industry – Alex...
Viticulture: hybrid varieties, cross breeding resistant varieties with varieties of good wine quality
Viticulture, closely intertwined with the land and our earth, is threatened by the precarity of our environment. Wineries all over are being forced to reassess their practices
Vincenzo Palazzo, Vìen: «freedom emerges as a beautiful outrage to social entrapment»
«Vìen it's a clash» – Blending London, punk parties and underground music. What it is like to be an underground brand according to Vincenzo Palazzo
Building a renewable powered supply chain – the future of the fashion industry
Textile companies could reduce Scope 3 emissions by using renewable inputs such as solar, hydroelectric, and geothermal. At least, this is what is required from the luxury brands
Lampoon 23 / Transition: to define where we are today
Take it for granted, no excuse: nothing will be ever the same as it was before. It’s a moment of transition. This is a moment of transfer from a rejected...
3D printed house TECLA – using clay as a raw material will bring us a step closer
«The first project of a house that can adapt to different climates». Architect Mario Cucinella, talking about TECLA, a collaboration with Wasp 3D printing
Musings on porcelain. Ginori’s history and manufacturing facility. Between poetry and powder
From Ginori’s manufacturing facility, exploring the creation of an artisanal product between poetry and powder, and insects over errors
Lampoon, the Transparency issue – Rasmus Weng Karlsen: we are humans, not numbers
«Transparent can also be just another way of saying one's true self, displaying all those things that are usually hidden behind the two-way mirror of one's life» – Rasmus Weng...
NFTs – Four art market experts discuss the advantages and potential risks of blockchain
In the limelight after the multi-million auction of Beeple’s The first 5,000 days. Art and tech, a compendium of the recent turmoil in the art market and the global excitement...
Lampoon, Pascale Arnaud. Diversity representation and deconstruction of genders
Breaking the barriers between genders' representations to stir up trouble shows that femininity and masculinity are exchangeable and shareable
Wasteocene: «extracting water from waste should be made a priority». Matt Boczkowski, Aquaporin
Ninety-nine percent of the world population has PFASs in their bodies from polluted drinking water. Improving water filtration can help regain consumer trust and reduce plastic waste
History of Night and Destiny of Comets, Gian Maria Tosatti – from a provincial to an urban asset
In conversation with Gian Maria Tosatti. A reflection on the Italian industrial landscape and man’s relationship with his immediate and less-immediate environment
Updating a new fashion legislature: is fast fashion auditing real or not?
Decarbonisation goals for fashion, taxes for pollutants from apparel, accountability for wage theft from garment workers. The fashion industry’s green, clean future may not be too far away
Cecilia Accardo – Quartz, synthetic diamonds, and non-mined metals: paving the way to recycled jewelry
Cecilia Accardo and Scéona Poroli-Chauveau: «There is no difference between extracted or non-mined metal in terms of quality». A conversation about the recycled jewelry industry
Intimacy, liquidity, and clarity. Roberto Patella’s recipe
Roberto Patella's work echoes the socially critical message of the book 'Generation Me', namely why today's youth are more confident, assertive, entitled, and unhappier than ever before
Liliane Lijn – 1969 to the present. «Diversity is what makes us more equal»
Born in New York City in 1939, Liliane Lijn moved to Europe in 1958: «there is a kind of coherence between what I did then and what I do today».
Dog hair spun into yarn and pre-repaired sneakers: what’s next?
«My aim was to show natural materials that have potential in a product, not to make a sneaker». In conversation with Emilie Burfeind and Matthew Edwards
Once designed as a green district, now is a space where nature proliferated due to neglect
In Franzolini's work, there is an opportunity to reflect on the impact of humans and the benefits of their absence. A landscape that appears unseemly to us is an opportunity...
Vertical Farming, Aeroponics: A forest of energy-efficient buildings communicating with each other
Professor Dickinson Despommier argues urban agriculture as the way to gor to manage feeding the cities of the future. Plenty Inc. start up ready with 541 million dollars
Connecting the circle of womanhood with bags
Styphalia is a marshy lake in Greece. It is situated on a plateau at the southern foot of Mount Cyllene. Here, Ria Mort recreates an ancestral circle
In the Earth day 2022: NFTs burning explained. The environmental consequences of endless digital consumption
A fast fashion mindset that drives a new industry trend of burning NFTs is at odds with a shift to slow capitalism and conscious consumption
We Are History: ‘We’re here together, changing, mutating, limbo-ing, twisting, turning into weather’
We Are History, a group show curated by Ekow Eshun offers an expansion of the visual framework surrounding climate change — from historical and postcolonial to lyrical and poetic
In the age of Dune it’s about Sand: an insatiable demand, taken from rivers and streams
In conversation with Vince Beiser, writer, journalist and author of ‘The World in a Grain: The Story of Sand and How It Transformed Civilization’ on the role of sand
Fantasy, myth, dream, aspiration, illusion. Menelik Puryear shuffles some visionary assets
A silent performance, a theatrical act without a script, a dreamscape of bodies floating on the stage of life. Menelik Puryear and the dream as satisfaction of unconscious desire
Fighting thermo inequity, natural packaging, controlled distribution: the JUST Water business model
Water boxes have filtered more than four hundred thousand liters of water, saving up to a hundred forty thousand kilograms of Co2 and avoiding single-use plastic water bottles
Heatwaves, viruses, eco-anxiety: threats coming from climate change. In conversation with Francesco Tamilia
An estimated nine million people die from pollution each year. More people have died from climate change than Covid. The climate crisis «is also a health crisis and must be...
Queer intimacy and female nudity, a defiant body of work by artist Jenna Gribbon
«The idea is to make the viewer conscious of the fact that they are consuming an image of a body which belongs to a person – they are no longer...
Our thousands of years old glaciers don’t contain water alone, but our history too
Like archives, glaciers store microbiological and viral data that can help scientists to predict our future climate thanks to new knowledge about ancient ecosystems
Louis de Roffignac: Objects on photosensitive paper
To explore transparency, Louis de Roffignac opted for neutral backgrounds and played around with colored gelatins. The layering of colors allows for variations of the different shades of transparency
Studio Sarmite: Harvesting, producing, designing pine skin leather through bark
«I extract the bark on my own and it's not regularly harvested either. The final product ranges from earthy brown to pink to deep terracotta colors with a scent of...
CORSIA stabilizes net CO2 emissions from international civil aviation at 2019 levels
By 2050, the aviation sector intends to cut its net CO2 emissions to half of what they were in 2005, while exploring strategies to reach net zero emissions by 2060-65
Petros Efstathiadis: from a pathogenic claustrophobic state to outdoor life with no restrictions
etros Efstathiadis for Lampoon Transaprency: «Electricity, telecommunications, natural forces, love, and war – they change the world, they create social classes and they push people to success or failure»
Is the felt industry sustainable? The case of Voylok shoes made by mono-materials
Made avoiding the use of dyes, bleach, stitches or glues. By-products from production, such as wool scraps and muddy water, are turned into fertilizers for farmers
The Claiming of Modern Milan and what to do with the legacy of a difficult heritage
A regime at the mercy of international and private interests with the persistence of social structures forged in the pre-fascist period — in discourse with Professor Lucy Maulsby
Upfarming company amending the broken system of agriculture through rotative vertical farming
In conversation with Bruno Lacey and Tiago Sá Gomes on their Lisbon based rotating vertical towers. The project utilizes fifty percent less energy, fifty percent less labor and ninety percent...
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
Changing Markets – deft marketing tricks mask the truth on synthetic fibers
Extracted, refined into petrochemicals, and processed into plastic. Fossil fuels are spun into synthetic fibers– over seventy percent of all fiber production
The catalyst for the decarbonization of the energy sector in Berlin: Berliner Stadtwerke
Clients know where their electric power comes from. Although Berliner Stadtwerke is not a large company using eco certificates to provide green power, it’s one-hundred percent solar and wind powered
Pushing Bauxite Residue, a.k.a. red mud further into architectural industries – Studio ThusThat
Kevin Rouff, Paco Boekemann and Guillermo Whittembury: The challenge to change the perception of red mud to consider it a potential sustainable resource
