The Daily Dispatch includes reviews and critical readings of books, exhibitions, photography projects, architecture, independent publications and cultural initiatives. Each contribution connects individual work to a wider system of production, politics, technology and material culture.
Updated with new content every day, The Daily Dispatch extends Lampoon’s editorial research beyond the rhythm of the print edition. It is a continuous journal of contemporary culture — grounded in evidence, direct observation and an interest in how things are made.
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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...
Benjamin Wolbergs New Queer Photography: focus on margins, all about queer bodies and beauty
The book edited by Benjamin Wolbergs, collects the work of fifty-two photographers from all over the world, focusing on bodies and intimate queerness
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
Cotton recycling: the chances we have working on man-made cellulosic fibers
«If cotton or other cellulosic fibers can satisfy the 100 million tons of demand, there’s no reason why we can’t use a regenerated natural fiber from beginning to end»
Blurring boundaries of identification through a multilayered artistic practice – Jesper Just
«I approach an image from several possible angles so to challenge the museum’s audience» — a conversation with Danish multimedia artist Jesper Just
ROC certification: we have more living organisms in one teaspoon of soil than humans on the planet
Old is new. Discussing soil health, traditional farming, human welfare, and ROC certification principles with Elizabeth Whitlow, the Executive Director of Regenerative Organic Alliance
Flowers, snails, and sea stars. Ruggiero Cafagna playing with some hermaphrodite things
A mix of portraits, documentary, and fashion developed on humanist realism expressed in a raw aesthetic, showing the sensibilities, fragilities, sensuality, and positive feelings
«The idea of transparency can be ideological and political» David Spriggs talks with Regine Schumann
Visual artists David Spriggs and Regine Schumann discuss the role of transparency, both in its physicality and concept: fFrom material, to object, to luminance constraints
Low wages, no safety – Nazma Akter founder of Awaj Foundation on how Bangladesh’s garment factory workers live and work
Former child worker and labor leader Nazma Akter delves into the vulnerability and injustices faced by Bangladesh’s garment factory workers
Jin Jia Ji: The cracks in the rock
«I want to show the alienated but intimate relationship between human beings and nature, and the tenacious vitality shown by the combination of them» – Jin Jia Ji for Lampoon
Carbon sequestration is not a competition, but Biochar is winning. NetZero case
«Many things can be used to fight climate change – biochar is the most mature for scaling and we should push it asap». In conversation with Axel Reinaud, founder of...
Stolen moments are out of reach because of the hectic pace of our lives – Alba Yruela
The attachment to the environment is evidenced by the references to the earth and its plastic qualities. A diary from Spain: mud, transparencies and blades of light
Fashion is a full spectrum industry: consumers informed: from agriculture to the sales floor – Lampoon, the Transparency issue
To achieve full transparency, brands must be open about their supply chains to keep consumers informed. A dialogue between Eco Age’s founder Livia Firth and Auret Van Heerden
Florence Mann and the fictional modern mermaid
Our main focus was water – we wanted to present the relationship between humans and water, as well as explore water in different states by the sea as well as...
Olive oil production, Earth for insulation, Skylights for passive ventilation: Corrals project by DECA
«The process of building, destroys». When you work on an untouched landscape «you want to make sure you build something that integrates» on many layers: economy, nature and culture
«Either you have it, or you do not» – Sofia Tchkonia on Georgian fashion’s future
«They are not afraid of what they want to do ». A city between Eastern, Western and Soviet influences fosters the new generation of designers
Urtica Dioica: the sustainable nettle fabric that looks like silk
«Nettle is the replacement for synthetic fibers since it is the most stable fiber in the natural fibers range»
Marie Tomanova drops the incendiary femininity of cyber provocateurs cumgirl8
Marie Tomanova for Lampoon – the Transparency Issue: «I wanted to photograph the badass musicians of punk band CUMGIRL8. We kept it real. Honest. We peeked into their universe»
Vineyards in mineral rich volcanic soil: the case of Lanzarote
What volcanic soil can teach us about regenerative agriculture and the role of biochar in nurturing infertile soil
Colorifix – Tackling one of the textile industry’s most environmentally damaging processes: dyeing
CEO Orr Yarkoni explains how cells can be manipulated to dye fabric, cutting back on water wastage and chemical pollution globally. Water use is cut by 50 percent to 90...
