"Imagine: Exploring the Brave New World of Design and Manufacturing"  is a recent publication by SPACE 10, a future-living lab based in Copenhagen. The lab brings together radical thinkers and experts from around the globe to ideate, prototype and design new concepts for a more sustainable way of living. The lab works on finding ...

Design weeks reached recently the creative and cultural scene in many cities of the Middle east: Beirut Design Week is at the 6th edition, taking place from May 19 to May 26, 2017, in different locations across the city. More than 150 events are planned: exhibitions, talks, workshops, conferences and competitions. The ...

                    London Craft Week showcases across London excellent international and British creativity and craftsmanship. This third edition, from May 3 to May 7, 2017, includes more than 230 exhibitions, demonstrations, talks, workshops and receptions. The event focuses on different fields such as furniture and home accessories, fashion, jewellery, food, and art. It ...

NO COMMENT 2016 Image © Greg Girard

  Reporting From the Front is the title of the 15th International Architecture Exhibition “La Biennale di Architettura 2016” taking place in Venice from 28 May until 27 Nevember. Directed by the Architect Alejandro Aravena (Chile 1967), winner of the 2016 Pritzker Architecture Prize, the Exhibition includes 88 Participants from 37 different countries, ...

  10 reasons to visit Beirut Design Week 2016 - 20/29 May: 1. It celebrates Beirut Design Capital: 150 events in 100 locations around Beirut. The 2015 Beirut Design Week edition brought together more than 25,000 visitors. Started in 2012, it is the largest growing design festival in the Middle East region. 2. ...

HAPPY MOTHER'S DAY by Sora Ceballos from Medellin. Now she lives with her 10 year-old daughter Gaby in New Jersey. Her 365 Drawing Project is a challenge to create each day a “drawing/sketching/painting/doodling or just holding a pencil” to celebrate motherhood. © of drawings above: Sora Ceballos. Source: instagram @soraceballos

  Lebanon, Beirut – It is in Hamra District where Abboudi Abou Jaoude saves his collection of vintage posters of Arabic movies golden age. It all started with his passion to cinema that he inherited from his father when he was a small boy. Then he started collecting film posters. Today his ...

  ItalOriente Crafts is a collaboration between a network of artisans and designers from Italy and the Middle-East to design and develop handmade tableware. The project objectives are: - to experiment the combination of "traditional" crafts and "digital" fabrication; - to empower the artisans network through collaboration and innovation; - to individuate and promote the values of local production systems. The ...

For those who can not visit Expo Milano 2015, and those who want to prepare their visit to the 1,1 million square meters exhibition site, the following digital tools will be of a big help: > The official web platform http://www.expo2015.org/en it could be a starting point to understand what are ...