Nobu Okada – From Japan tackling the issue of space debris as a life mission
Hundreds of thousands man-made objects are whizzing around the Earth. Astroscale, lead by space environmentalist Nobu Okada, takes on a task of cleaning it up
Hundreds of thousands man-made objects are whizzing around the Earth. Astroscale, lead by space environmentalist Nobu Okada, takes on a task of cleaning it up
Each item is grown in situ, harvested in situ, and finished in situ without the damage and waste of a mass furniture production – Gavin Munro, founder of Full-Grown
«The cobalt blue has been my color. I’m not sure when it happened. It seems to catch my attention whenever it’s within sight. It’s the starting point where textures merge»
Analogies, not metaphors: a bubble, a plastic envelope, a direct hit to the senses – exploring disconnection, detachment and self-isolation in this modern world that we keep on loving
«Quand le ciel bas et lourd pèse comme un couvercle sur l’esprit gémissant en proie aux longs ennuis». Solitary individuals, self-restriction, exhausted state and some poetry in it
Even more aware of the fragility of our species: we have been fragile in our technocratic ambitions to rule, we have been fragile in our intellectual ability to make predictions
We are all well-functioning machines. Cardboard wings and carton arms, pretense games, becoming an Icarus, a human giant or just a dream breaker – some British references and legacies
A collection about Melanie: I have taken many pictures of over the last few years – about missing someone during a quarantine, to understand that there is no past only future
Collage and collide: a research that drives to the intersection of nature and man, fragments of color, fragments of black and white – it’s a sunny morning in Brooklyn, New York City
From old video camcorders to the first digital cameras from 2000: a bit of all – The lighting situation, the front and the back of a final image to complete a short story
Seventies’ colors, blue skies and balloons, perspective of a family on the hills around Assisi, Perugia, Umbria. The map and the territory – as usual, the map isn’t the territory
Le plein et le vide: interior and exterior perceptions that change in time, leaving the body behind where once was a familiar place – You stay still for a second while I pin a flower
Portraying snippets of an Italian summer in the middle of the winter: Amanda Charchian and Ivan Olita perpetrating a collective image that stands for far more than what it is
The London-based Italian photographer’s closeup self-portraits in a white Fendi dress immersed between the lush green and concrete of the metropolitan capital
In the stormy Atlantic side, a large abandoned house with the remnants of the Sixties decor turned into the setting for documentary-driven pictures
You have been collecting and researching – capturing visuals, colors, prints, and combinations of elements. My collection of vinyl, Italian songs that stand eternal
An interpersonal fascination between Martin Margiela and multidisciplinary artist Jonathan Hallam led to La Femme de Cabine – an homage to the House, fusing anonymity with ubiquity
Shaved head, Yashica T4, displacement: Marie Tomanova and her search to amalgamate the New York City and the town of Mikulov through photographs
A quirky community garden, life in a seasonal town: New York, Rockaway Beach 91 st street. Capturing the diverse Youth Culture and showing new life and growth during times of Covid
Ready-made from home combined in a rigid and calculated sense of composition. Man Ray’s lesson: a photogram is a recording of the physical nature of light
A deliberate eroticism is drawn from the fetishization of insecurity, potential harm, and destruction of heritage
A beekeeper friend gives an interpretation of the female role. A short story of bees and cooperation, pizza dough, and healing by Sarai Mari
Nine steps to learn how to dance the cha-cha, the taste of salt, lemon drops in the hair. We can still hear the Sounds of a distant summer
To photograph someone I love. It is another link, it is a relationship without sounds, without conversations, without time, without routine
Nadine Fraczkowski’s chronicles from the lockdown age: cutting hair, shaving head, dog walking as a valuable legitimacy to breathe outside the house
Art and reportage to depict a family daily life during the pandemic through children’s prism. «What would they all be up to when we don’t look?». Photographer: Marlon Rueberg
Dutch eco-awareness artist Thijs Biersteker’s recent work illustrates the complexity of plant communication. Finnish futurologist and author Risto Linturi explores the promises and pitfalls of virtual reality
The debate surrounding the availability of land for agriculture; farmers have not been educated on how to build circularity and sustainability into their practices. Salty & Co, a case study
«When planning an area, you have to consider the diversity of people’s needs». In conversation with Inside Outside founder and designer, Petra Blaisse
Architects and engineers focus on designing efficient buildings in terms of energy consumption. But the influence of greenery on domestic comfort must also be considered
Taxonomies – Stefano Graziani pays homage to the father of modern taxonomy through his travels around the globe concluding his insight and studies on the naturalist
Green corridors to host animals and protected cavities in places where migratory birds can nest. The complications of urban ecosystems – from the foxes of Rome, the crows of Tokyo and the lizards of Mexico City
Parks in New York City promote public health and well-being. Do they also promote gentrification and inequality? A dialogue with New York City Parks Commissioner Mitchell Silver and architect Stefano Boeri
Changing dimensions of our times call for a moment to stop and stare, unlike a New York minute that passes by, never to relinquish in itself
Elizabeth Diller, architect: in the Anthropocene age, the density of a city is a good change and not a disadvantage. Living together provides us with the opportunity for a better future
A Matter of Perspectives and Movements – what is the forest, who are we, and who are the Others? Giorgio Vacchiano, Emanuele Coccia and Stefano Boeri tackle nature
Nocturnal suburb – my absence strikes both in excess or in horror, the sharp eye confirms. I am that which is about to be born
Artistic Director of Hermès, Pierre-Alexis Dumas, and Architect Stefano Boeri discuss the responsibility of larger corporations to lead in the transition towards a mandatory sustainable consideration for the future
Delivering a remembrance of what has been forgotten within our periphery Marina Ballo Charmet exposes the white noise of our mind
On a Sunday morning in April, in the midst of lockdown, a three-way call was scheduled between London, Rome and Milan. Dialing in: Hans-Ulrich Obrist, Stefano Boeri and Cornelia Lauf
Being sustainable means also protecting artisans from dissolving into the contemporary rush – young girls ready to save the legacy of textile masters
«Our unhealthy relationship with the natural environment is linked to the unhealthy relationship we have with each other» In conversation with Carolyn Finney, author of ‘Black Faces, White Spaces’
Brooks Shane Salzwedel paints a paradox of scenarios in a self-created process using his imagination to predict chaos in calm from the lost spaces of his memory
We started working on this issue of Lampoon over a year ago. Sustainable crafting and manufacturing had been on our radar for years. The word sustainability was already quite widespread — perhaps a utopia. In collaboration with architect Mr. Stefano Boeri
Prada’s Re-Nylon is fabricated using industrial waste retrieved from oceans, watercourses and landfill sites. The resulting fabric can be regenerated ad infinitum
PHOTOGRAPHY LORENZO ZANDRI
From the culprits of a carbon saturated crisis to advocates of an infinite net-zero. In conversation with Deputy mayor of Tirana Anuela Ristani, Deputy Mayor of London Shirley Rodrigues and Forestami’s Scientific Director, Maria Chiara Pastore
The clothing pieces demand a sort of respect when they are worn, a dialogue between two coexisting bodies – human and non-human
Open sky-laboratories dedicated to creating natural ingredients and hotspots of biodiversity. How Chanel incorporates transparency into the roots of its business
«We are always the subject of our own work however much we try to deny it». Self-reflections in a fragment: a look into the archive of artist Katerina Jebb
WE DON’T KNOW WHAT WE’RE BECOMING YET
BUT WE KNOW WHAT WE’RE LOOKING FOR
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COVER IMAGE MARIE TOMANOVA
IN CONVERSATION WITH
HERON PRESTON
GIORGIO ARMANIHAKAN KARAOSMAN
DAN COLEN
REINER HOLZEMER
CYRILL GUTSCH
IAN MASSEY
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WE DON’T KNOW WHAT WE’RE BECOMING YET
BUT WE KNOW WHAT WE’RE LOOKING FOR
IN CONVERSATION WITH
HERON PRESTON
GIORGIO ARMANI
HAKAN KARAOSMAN
DAN COLEN
REINER HOLZEMER
CYRILL GUTSCH
IAN MASSEY
LAMPOON PUBLISHING HOUSE SRL | R.E.A. DI MILANO N. 2057081
I.V. TRATTAMENTO DEI DATI © LAMPOON 2019