Tag: Lampoon Issue 22
Street lamps in Paris by Romain Laprade
"Even if nobody cares about street lamps, if we isolate them, when we can see that there are real pieces of design. I shoot them with a sky background, I...
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
Patrick Blanc, Botanist and artist, has designed more than 300 Vertical Gardens around the world
Architects look for novel ways to infuse more green spaces into cities: The fact that a plant is rare in nature, doesn’t mean at all that it is difficult to...
Canali: «creating a suit or a jacket is like making pieces of anatomy»
Stefano Canali on the history of the family, the factory and the years he spent there as a child, as well as the priority he was taught to always give...
Madre di Me – Gabriele Rosati. We born twice: tackling photography like the clay of a sculpture
A reflection on roles, context has become fluid and unlimited – Gabriele Rosati «If home brings family, then family could also be a place where one feels at home»
Jack Johnstone x Delly Deacon – Let nature take its course, a reflection of freedom
Designer Delly Deacon tooks Photographer Jack Johnstone around the East London marches whilst she forages for numerous natural materials to make her hats.
The Politics of Parks: Green Space and Social Inequality in New York 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...
Pachama, tech start-up: «about a billion hectares of the planet can be restored as forest»
Using algorithms combined with satellite imaging, Pachama monitors a project, figuring out the amount of carbon concentration in the project area in comparison to the region
Textile from salt-tolerant plants grown using seawater: a case study by SaltyCo
The process involves saline farming – plants will be harvested to extract fibers which will be turned into textile products, using pre-existing production methods.
Not all companies are disposed to share and be transparent: Cynthia Figge is trying to reverse that
The scarce but growing amount of information that has been coming out of the fashion industry seems to be a deliberate strategy that aim at greenwashing and confusing the audience
A home invasion, a confinement story – Igor Pjörrt
A deliberate eroticism is drawn from the fetishization of insecurity, potential harm, and destruction of heritage
Environments to accommodate – in an age of isolation, we need escapism
«When planning an area, you have to consider the diversity of people’s needs». In conversation with Inside Outside founder and designer, Petra Blaisse
Anuela Ristani, Shirley Rodrigues, Maria Chiara Pastore: A tale of three cities’ – Tirana, London and Milan
Plan B for Planet A - from the perpetrators of a carbon saturated means of living to an infinite net-zero acknowledging nature as a structural facet in cities in order...
Architects Stefano Boeri and Elizabeth Diller on demineralizing the city: urban green grafts
What can we do to defend our public space? A public space is not about density, where we can observe or participate, where behaviors are not codified
Talking to Quantis: no more greenwashing, we need to fix precise targets and clear numbers
In the next ten years, the fashion industry will be under close scrutiny to maintain a commitment that has to fix a defined goal. In conversation with Simone Pedrazzini, director...
The relationship between public health and greenery – a decrease of diabetes and anxiety
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
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...
Yanomami: Claudia Andujar keeps on counteracting the objectification of indigenous tribes
«I am connected to the indigenous, to the land, to the struggle. I have always searched for the meaning of life in this core», photographer Claudia Andujar
Carolyn Finney: It is going to take time to build an inclusive future
«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'
We must become idealists to confront this world
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
Rolex Perpetual Planet: dedication is necessary to plant trees, protect forests, and save our planet
Rolex stands as an eternal status symbol supporting human activities. It has been fostering not only brand identity, but brand authority as well
Lars Brønseth captures all in blue life scenes
«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»
Biochar — In conversation with Brando Crespi, the co-founder of Pro-Natura International
«Biochar is the ethical form of charcoal – ethical because you’re not cutting down the forest» – a green weapon in the Anthropocene age we live in
A valid criticism surrounding the effectiveness of carbon offsetting schemes
Fashion is responsible for 10 percent of greenhouse gas globally. Gucci’s call to action facilitates a conversation – ‘What should the next steps for the industry be’?
Roof gardens – returning what architecture has taken from the land
Le Corbusier is just one of the architects and urban planners of the twentieth century who measured themselves on the theme of the roof and hanging garden
Petros Efstathiadis unproductive machines are reminiscent of Modern Times
An idea prevailing upon another, an end with nothing heroic and no explanation - in conversation with Petros Efstathiadis
Stefano Graziani’s Taxonomies pay homage to Carl Linnaeus’ utopian enterprise
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
Alex Black proposes a technical study in the materiality of photo paper
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
108 days of Summer through the lens of film director Peter Spark
Perfecting the practice of lazy summer days. Peter Spark captures the essence of summertime through photographs that speak of salty kisses and sun on your skin
Environmental data is not only a carbon measuring tool – it tells us what a tree is feeling
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
Brooks Shane Salzwedel’s photography, between the possible and the imagined
Salzwedel uses his inner strength and inner child to tell his story: a self-created process involving different materials to portray natural and unnatural landscapes
Ovum – family, circularity, rebirth. Artists ponder the meaning and shape of eggs
The recurrence of a process marks the sign of rebirth as art imitates life in his rendition of the egg. Six artists share their own visions of Ovum
Walking the high line towards a paradigm of symbiosis
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
There is perfection in the community and untouchable destiny in the nest
A beekeeper friend gives an interpretation of the female role. A short story of bees and cooperation, pizza dough, and healing by Sarai Mari
Lampoon Magazine, the Commitment Issue – Editor’s Letter
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
Early summer days in Berlin, Stine and I
Nadine Fraczkowski's chronicles from the lockdown age: cutting hair, shaving head, dog walking as a valuable legitimacy to breathe outside the house
«Never show four white stitches in one image» – A talk with Jonathan Hallam
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
Creation/Destruction – her hair play like tree branches: visual art by Stas May
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...
An artificial documentary and some attitude at Celine by Slimane – images Sebastian Lager
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...
