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Humanities
The Tunisian Shepherd – learning to dismiss the luxury of waste
Photographer Akila Berjaoui and Clément LaGuardia uncovered the quiet resilience of Tunisia’s shepherds — revealing a raw portrait of ancestral living, slow fashion
Lampoon Issue 22
Lorenzo Zandri discloses the Vegetal Resistance of the streets of London
Lorenzo Zandri captures the spontaneous vegetation growing across London’s built environment—plants that resist control 
Architecture
Is preservation without use is another form of decay?
Photographer Allegra Martin explores the contradictions of modern architecture—not as static monuments to an ideal past, but as evolving, inhabited structures shaped by time, use and political change
Humanities
Daniel Roché: sex work and political performance
How the realities of sex work, political performance, digital self-surveillance and aesthetic anxiety expose the contradictions at the heart of contemporary identity
Lampoon Issue 31
Bobby Beethoven: Music is the One Spell Humanity Hasn’t Totally Ruined Yet
I’m not living an environmentally conscious life. I eat factory-farmed animals. I’ve flown to the other side of the planet to DJ one event, not even slept and flown directly back home. It’s disgusting. Survival is disgusting
Call To Action
Angelo Moratti calls for a more human Capitalism: purpose is the new power
One year after leaving his family’s oil business, Angelo Moratti delivers a speech in Milan on how fame, ego, and tech hubris are eroding capitalism—an interview
Photography
Martin Parr: humor and photography in New Brighton
«People are doing selfies. One thing that has changed is that the selfie stick has died». Martin Parr, the Boiling Lampoon, about humor, beach, and climate change
Fashion
Who are the Boomers? The ones who dismiss the word “sustainability” 
Sustainability is an overused word, dangerously close to losing its meaning — and Boomers are quick to dismiss it, even though it remains the only reliable code of critical thinking
Naturally Sourced
Terraformae and the raw vitality of terracotta: design must get its hands dirty
Terraformae explores terracotta’s circular potential—recyclable, binder-free, and with up to 70% lower CO₂ emissions than cement—through design-led experimentation and process optimization
The Art Field
Alex Black and the Performance of Beauty in an Age of Visual Saturation
Through staged photography and AI-generated symbols, Canadian director Alex Black reimagines identity and desire—while exposing the unsustainable systems behind how beauty is made and sold.
Humanities
Under Suspended Rupture: Community and Isolation Beneath LaGuardia
David Rothenberg’s long-term visual study of Landing Lights Park exposes how the proximity of landing planes shapes the lived experience of East Elmhurst—where infrastructure divides bodies and communities
Naturally Sourced
Why is linen a noble fiber? A short or global supply chain: from Normandy to Italy
From the Terre de Lin cooperative to the manufacturing of the Albini Group: European linen and its traceability, between crop rotation, varietal selection and industrial weaving
Fashion
Maria Luisa Frisa and the political value of fashion
Fashion needs a political message: activism, disruption, obsession – fashion is no longer just a creative matter. The responses of Maria Luisa Frisa
The Art Field
There’s no room for maximalist lines in studioutte’s work
Patrizio Gola and Guglielmo Giagnotti reject sustainability as a trend: it should be inherent to design. Archetypes, simple forms, and a refusal of decor
The Art Field
Indigo Identity: Stacey Gillian Abe’s Exploration of Memory
Through materials and autobiographical themes, Stacey Gillian Abe creates works that examine Black identity and reconstruct historical narratives
Humanities
Home Fetish: a Visual Exploration of Obsession, Comfort, and Domestic Rituals
Through the lens of Lorenzo Venturini: Home Fetish unveils the ambiguous relationship between the self and domestic space, where comfort becomes obsession and everyday objects turn into fetishes
Call To Action
Fashion Weeks must be about rules and regulations – not about parties and glam
The more fashion capitals jump on the so-called sustainability requirements, rules and regulations, the more critics begin to wonder if a sustainable fashion week can ever exist
The Art Field
Not more, but deeper: Ordet’s curatorial and editorial vision 
At the intersection of contemporary art and publishing, Ordet and its sister project Lenz Press champion a thoughtful, sustainable, and collaborative approach to cultural production in today’s accelerated world
The Art Field
Sofia Zevi: I don’t use Instagram, I don’t need it
As society chases constant novelty, —yet the value of honest endures. Sofia Zevi and the need to be critical, today when everything seems to have to be 'wow' on social media
Humanities
Twenty years of women’s art revealing the fractures of our time
From trauma to care, absence to collective memory: The Max Mara Art Prize for Women as a space of production, reflection, and resistance in European contemporary art history
Fashion
Jonathan Anderson’s Dior: Merging Raw Edge with Classicism
Collars embodied the split personality: one edge pressed and buttoned with couture precision, the other casually sprung upward. At Dior, Jonathan Anderson brings roughness into dialogue with polish
Humanities
Is being homosexual less polluting than being heterosexual?
A provocation for Pride Month. Human activity pollutes, and bringing children into the world makes things worse: will same-sex couples be the saviours of the Anthropocene?
Fashion
Caterina Ravaglia: vegetable tanning is a personal mission
A custom mesh machine, recyclable metal, suede underlay, artisanal choices: Caterina Ravaglia for Kate Cate—no shortcuts to fast fashion
The Art Field
Art Basel 2025: What Hides Behind Every White Wall of the Fair?
White walls, invisible materials, global logistics: Art Basel 2025 lays bare the environmental paradox of art fairs, where aesthetic minimalism meets concrete consumption
The Art Field
Piet Hein Eek’s Work with Wood Scrap: “There Are No Poor Materials”
From scrapwood cabinets to masterworks: the story of a Dutch Designer who built a global creative ecosystem around circular design, teamwork, and manufacturing Integrity
Music and Performance
Terraforma Exo 2025 explores sound as a tool for ecological transformation
From the green heart of Parco Sempione to the layered histories of Villa Tasca, Terraforma Exo 2025 turns architecture and landscape into instruments. An interview with founder Ruggero Pietromarchi
Humanities
Black Cowboys, Banlieues, and Beyond: Twenty Years of Mohamed Bourouissa
From Paris suburbs to Philadelphia stables, Mohamed Bourouissa interrogates the politics of representation and community in urban peripheries across twenty years of projects
The Art Field
Rainbows in Shadows by Jenna Gribbon: seeing and being seen
Jenna Gribbon’s first solo show in Milan challenges the definition of looking, inviting the viewer to step into the artist’s place and inhabit her subjectivity
The Publishing Industry
En Route magazine and the story of Cesare Poma: an exhibition at the Vatican Library
A collection of early 20th-century newspapers from around the world has been rediscovered at the Vatican Apostolic Library. The House of Dior is establishing a scholarship to study it
Fashion
Red, love, perfection and cruelty – Valentino and Giancarlo Giammetti
The Valentino Garavani & Giancarlo Giammetti Foundation unveils Orizzonti Rosso at PM23—an homage to the signature hue that defines their story. More than glittering parties and fairy-tale princesses, their vision once put Rome’s culture on the world stage
Humanities
Lucille Durez: Statues, Bodies, and the Politics of Visibility – Why Monumentality Still Matters
The power of statues lies in their resemblance to us. Any human body could be cast in stone or bronze. Yet, as Judith Butler reminds us, for a body to be monumentalized it must first matter
Literature
Michael Bible Finds Freedom in Failure: “Success Is Killing Us”
In Goodbye Hotel Michael Bible intertwines ecology and spirituality, exploring post-capitalist desolation. The novel invites us to see the world through the ancient lens of a nature destined to outlive us
The Publishing Industry
Marie Tomanova’s New Volume Confronts Identity, Migration, and Belonging
Marie Tomanova recovers a photographic archive from the beginning of her career, challenging the norms of photography with a single 36-exposure roll of film
Architecture
New Voices in Venice: Azerbaijan, Latvia, Lebanon and more at Biennale 2025
First-time and emerging participants reshape discourse, with Azerbaijan’s “Equilibrium” and Latvia’s border defenses challenging the Arsenale’s traditional Western narrative
Humanities
Cross Cultural Chairs: The Chair as a Form of Identity and Belonging in the World
Matteo Guarnaccia’s project challenges the global standardization of chair design: postures, materials, and practices shared between artisans, designers, and local communities
Fashion
Stories of power and sustainability: what does Avignon’s arc mean today?
La cronaca cattolica e Louis Vuitton al Palazzo dei Papi: la vita in un centro di provincia è un percorso di sostenibilità – Avignone, sito dell’Unesco, filiera corta e occupazione locale
Fashion
Maria Grazia Chiuri in Rome at Villa Albani: after nine years of activism at Dior
Maria Grazia Chiuri ends her tenure at Dior with a show at Villa Albani and a string of Roman references: Mimi Pecci Blunt, Teatro Cometa, Pietro Ruffo’s zodiac, and the Torlonia Foundation
The Art Field
Consumerism and Built-in Obsolescence, in Counterpoint to Adriano Olivetti
An implied contradiction: Formafantasma’s reflection on consumerism and Technological Obsolescence takes place in Venice at the Olivetti store—a primary reference for the purpose economy
Cinema
Andrei Ujică: An Aesthetic Eye on Revolutions
From the fall of the Soviet Union to the arrival of the Beatles, the Romanian master filmmaker Andrei Ujică’s work draws on archival footage to depict the upheavals of the Twentieth century
Architecture
Why Rome’s Palazzine Matter to Global Architectural History
The palazzina took shape within the milieu of a prosperous upper-middle class: the architects and key figures who reshaped the Eternal City between the 1930s and the 1980s
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