/ Circular Economy
From Amsterdam, BYBORRE has established a new model of digital manufacturing that blends transparency, precision, and responsibility — proving that technology can help fashion produce less, but better.
Vienna’s Gugumuck Farm: free-range snails grown on kitchen scraps and herbs can out-perform chickens and pigs in feed efficiency and shrink agriculture’s footprint
Yuri Tuma, co-founder of the Institute of Postnatural Studies: snail mating behaviors that complicate pleasure, violence, and post-patriarchal sex narratives in backyard biodiversity hotspots
Snail mucin, gardening blogs, Derek Jarman, and heterotopias: a multi-layered reading of the garden as a metaphor for systemic violence
The great snail rush: exploring the global supply chain, ethical farming innovations, scientific research, and the cultural evolution that turned an unlikely ingredient into a cornerstone of the beauty industry
Across continents and climates, from Mongolia’s steppe to Italy’s factories, the infrastructures behind Loro Piana’s materials reveal a complex web of relationships between herders, scientists, and artisans
A city of wood: though there has been recent interest in Biophilic Urbanism and the existence of wooden structures, no project of this size has been created out of this raw material
“These trees were planted by Napoleon in the 18th century—an early lesson in large‑scale reforestation that we would do well to emulate today.” Interview with Bas Smets, co‑curator of “Building Biospheres”
From a post oil focused Saudi Arabian economy, to developing carbon neutral, walkable cities with futuristic design and technology principles setting new standards for urban living
Fashion, Creativity, Sustainability: Trump’s words might just give a jolt to an industry that still refuses to commit to manufacturing natural fibers free of plastic
