Tag: Food
25 million families growing greens at home: Hedera tackles indoor gardening
80% of people's exposure to pesticides happens indoors, but with vertical gardens it’s possible to grow organic greens at home
Susan Cianciolo, from the 90s: «I can’t understand my work because I’m making it»
Susan Cianciolo about her way of creating: «Even the given theme could take you in a different direction. It's always a surprise. My work can get changed many times before...
Livraria Mandarina, São Paulo. Where mandarins are metaphors for growth and resistance
«We compared the Livraria to a mandarin tree. As its seeds become fruits, books turn into knowledge in the process of reading.» - In conversation with Roberta Paixão and Daniela...
Tranquillity, Davines. The beauty industry would be less polluting if it started with agriculture
Founded in Parma, Italy in 1983 by the Bollati family, the Davines group has been devoted to comprehensive sustainability for over twenty years
The awakening of the giants. Industrial buildings shine again with new functions
Tate Modern, Prada Foundation, Hamburger Bahnhof, Hangar Bicocca. A tour of Europe's leading cities in the field of culture show a new trend in architecture: the renovation of industrial buildings
Import News, New York. Are we living in an era of content overload?
While print has long been deemed as being 'dead', things could not be further from the truth for independent magazines. Intw Import News' founders Sasha Laing and Ken Miller
The Broken Arm, Paris. The blurred line between art and life
Simplicity of materials can draw attention to garments, artwork, literature and music on display: thinking can matter more than buying, according to the trio Joste, Lafarge and Steinmetz
Dysfunction – the relationship between creativity and mental health
Why are artists still not attributed with the creative respect they are owed in a multi-billion industry in conversation with Gregor Barratt
AnzenbergerGallery, Vienna. Works that experiment with media from a perspective of curation
Founded in 2002 by Regina Anzenberger, the space is a platform for photography-based art. Visitors are introduced to a concept-based body of work in the form of exhibitions and books
Theatro, Portugal. Gravitating to the world of prose and poems
A town’s population of 64,000, and a market permeating with booksellers, it was not a viable proposition to open another stand-alone bookshop
About how to make the alcohol industry more sustainable? Discarded Spirits Co. case
Here is to the most rubbish drink you’ll every taste, Discarded. Made from waste and forgotten ingredients which they rely on as hidden treasures
Rosa Wolf, Berlin. Five-hundred titles with a soul and old-school customer service
«Why would someone buy a fashion magazine that looks like the others unless it has a defining factor»? Domenico Gutknecht of Rosa Wolf on his fixation with independent-print magazines
Kashiyama Daikanyama, Tokyo. A hill-like complex in southern Shibuya
Removing the boundaries that define the inside and outside of architectural work, nendo builds its design approach on the principle of continuity in nature
McNally Jackson Books, New York. Inside the Nolita indie scenario
Founded in New York in 2004 by Sarah McNally, a former editor at Basic Books and daughter of Holly and Paul McNally, the owners of the Canadian McNally Robinson Booksellers...
Via Veneto, Rome: the upcoming hotellerie through renewable energy and waste reduction programs
With their Belle Arti-approved restorations, the 5-stars hotels in Via Veneto are pursuing programs of waste reduction, km0 products, energy consumption reduction and renewable energy usage
The need for a shift in the hospitality industry. Only a crisis produces real change
«One of the possible outcomes of the financial crisis is that chains will be less inclined to throw away everything they already have and rebuild from scratch»
The Japanese expression pika pika is the mantra for ceramist Yuko Nishikwa
The work of Brooklyn based ceramicist Yuko Nishikwa is guided by the Japanese onomatopoeia ‘pika pika’, calling «a reaction that moves the observer. This industry has quality»
Roppongi Tsutaya Books, Tokyo. Catering to the needs of an international community
Tsutaya was founded in 1983 in Osaka as a realization of the idea of a need to create a stronghold of culture for grown-ups
Lebigmag, Moscow. People visit from fatigue by the sight of screens
Magazines: one can travel without travelling. «I receive orders from villages in Russia, for which, when I look at google maps are towns consisting of twenty houses»
Odd Kiosk, Barcelona. An exploration of queer based literature
Odd Kiosk was a response to the climate of these spaces, giving the youth, in importance, a space to explore their sense of self without harming one’s mental health
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
Ler Devagar, Lisbon. Making use of what’s around, a multipurpose bookstore
Founded in the year of 1999, Ler Devagar was an concept prompted by Pinho towards his peers. An intent in founding a space that functioned in multifarious modes
How can there be such an abundance of seafood so readily available? The Tronchetto market in Venice
Despite attentive regulations, fish markets across Europe are more fully stocked than ever, creating a false sense of abundance in the minds of consumers
1b, a Bar by Koenraad Dedobeleer ends at Maniera — the Belgian gallery founded upon Italian semantics
Following limited to no social gatherings, 1b played host to Bar Alto, Bar Basso — a night of Italian canapés and Negronis in honor of the famous Milanese bar
News & Coffee, Barcelona. The kiosk is a social nexus
«We are on the street. We don’t belong to the four walls. There is no limit of a window or a door to come through». In conversation with founders Pablo...
ISBN Books & Gallery, Budapest. A bookstore with a gallery on the side
Names after the thirteen-digit International Standard Book Number – Beata Istvanko is the woman behind the bookstore, featuring art and book events
IDEA, London. Finding genius, magic and creative insight in a curated inventory of images
David Owen and Angela Hill refined their ability to perceive an image’s potential through a process of trial and error. Their intuition and broad-mindedness define their approach to selecting titles
Waanders in De Broeren, Zwolle. Books and a deconsecrated church revised by BK Architecten
After a succession of fortune and ruin spanning six centuries, the new chapter in the life of Broerenkerk takes the shape of a bookstore: the Waanders family and the printing...
Chef Valérie Radou «Gastronomy is an ally in the tasting of wines» – since the very first bottle in 1729, by Nicolas Ruinart
Behind the scenes of the first Maison de Champagne, guest of Identità Golose 2021 in Milan. In a conversation with Ruinart resident chef Valérie Radou to know what’s behind her...
Hydra + Fotografīa, Mexico City. Three heads of the Hydra serpent in a CMYK color mode
The walls are white-washed, shelves work as canvas, and books as paintings and artefacts. The colors of the book-covers contrast with the walls, curated on shelves, that do not offer...
Matter, Denver. Self-sufficiency in the DNA
Rick Griffith and Debra Johnson follow the pulse of time while infusing it with history. «We are connected to our times and we know exactly what to do»
Sussy Cazalet on designing rugs and wall hangings. «Rothko-meets-Mondrian-meets-Klimt»
How knowing the origin of your pieces helps to create a client experience that surpasses the act of buying something. «You just should care who’s made something and where it’s...
Regenerative materials in architecture: bio-concrete from species that disrupt the food chain
Killing two birds with one stone: developing a bio-concrete whilst helping out ecosystems. A look into regenerative properties
Urban farms are bringing food production closer to home
How vertical farming, aquaponics, underground and rooftop farming are revolutionising traditional agriculture
Amateurs catching bluefin tuna are almost as bad as industrial fishermen
Why removing baby tunas from the ecosystem is damaging, and what can be done to protect their reproductive cycle in a more efficient way
Leather-like material from discarded Danish Christmas trees – news in the realm of textiles
More awareness needs to be spread regarding what it means to buy something which has biodegradability properties. In conversation with Bonnie Hvillum, founder of Natural Material Studio
Tuna farming: the billion-dollar-business – talking to Seaspiracy movie directors
Conversations with Lucy and Ali Tabrizi, directors of Seaspiracy, show how local traditions can be used to justify continuation of business-as-usual drastically damaging marine ecosystems
Slak Campus in Kenya was built on the model of termites’ mounds
Local materials and labor, little resources can improve efficiency and creativity: the campus is solar powered and passively ventilated
Design Chronicles – Flos Chromie, lamps coming out from their homes
The human brain perceives color as reflected light of varying spectral wavelength, associating it with personal and collective emotional responses – a phenomenon known as color-emotion synesthesia
L’Arabesque, Milan. Modernist reverence for the past
L’Arabesque is an ode to that golden era of Italian culture, a love letter to Milan's history. «Time, in the world of art, fashion and design, does not exist: everything...
Welcome to the Dollhouse – identity crossdressing and coming out in Italy
Armando Borno recounts the Seventies «They would take you to the police station to redact a minute where they would describe how you were dressed and what kind of make-up...
Humans and wild animals live in the same cities. Is it alliance or rivalry?
Green corridors to protect animals and protected cavities in places where migratory birds can nest. On sustainable urban ecosystem complications, from the foxes of Rome, the crows of Tokyo, the...
Knitwear and Hydropower – going greener, Drumohr makes few real steps forward
Born in the 1700s, a knitwear house Drumohr defines tradition: in conversation with Owner and Ceo, Mr. Michele Ciocca: «We want the term sustainability in our brand to turn into...
Avocado and onion peels are the new black: natural dyes made with food waste
«Using food waste to produce dyes tackles the sustainability problem from different angles». A conversation with Cara Marie Piazza, Creative Director at CMP Dye House
Running global supply chains using hybrid cloud: IBM blockchain
As one of the world’s largest tech corporations, IBM is at the forefront of fashion supply chain tracking solutions
