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Broken Nature portrait #1: Formafantasma—Ore Streams

By Formafantasma | May 10, 2019

EDITOR’S NOTE: Ore Streams, by design duo Studio Formafantasma (Andrea Trimarchi and Simone Farresin), is…

Flood vs Drought

By David Bihanic | May 9, 2019

EDITOR’S NOTE: Flood vs Drought, realized by designer David Bihanic in collaboration with the Trafik…

Equivalence – The Ecological Footprint of Fish

By Chow and Lin | May 6, 2019

EDITOR’S NOTE: The focus of Chow and Lin’s practice lies in their methodology of statistical,…

MARS

By Alex Goad | April 16, 2019

EDITOR’S NOTE: Addressing the dramatic phenomenon of massive coral death due to multiple environmental pressures,…

A Moving Border

By Marco Ferrari, Elisa Pasqual and Andrea Bagnato | April 12, 2019

EDITOR’S NOTE: A Moving Border (Columbia Books on Architecture and the City, 2019) is a…

The Path to Luma

By Katie Ryan | April 11, 2019

EDITOR’S NOTE: The Path to Luma is a video game developed by Daniel Keyes, Katie…

Manifold

By Monika Kalinauskaite | April 9, 2019

EDITOR’S NOTE: On Friday, April 5, the Lithuanian pavilion opened its doors to the public,…

Into(x) the Wild

By Livia Stacchini | March 29, 2019

EDITOR’S NOTE: Into(x) the Wild, a project by designer Livia Stacchini, focuses on Rosignano Solvay…

The Lost Words

By Louise Walsh | March 19, 2019

EDITOR’S NOTE: The Lost Words (Hamish Hamilton, 2017) by Robert Macfarlane and Jackie Morris summons the magic…

Redesigning the System

By Adam Bly | March 14, 2019

This essay was originally published in the Broken Nature exhibition catalog. The ten warmest years on…

Design Without Designers

By studio d-o-t-s | March 9, 2019

EDITOR’S NOTE: Design Without Designers is a research project conceived and developed by studio d-o-t-s during an…

Ceci n’est pas un parc

By Sofia Coutsoucos and Anna Milani | February 19, 2019

Ceci n’est pas un parc is a research and project proposal focusing on those areas…

ALBATROSS

By Chris Jordan | February 11, 2019

EDITOR’S NOTE: In 2018 Chris Jordan released a feature-length documentary film titled ALBATROSS, the result…

Meet the Alien Whisperer

By Shannon Stirone | February 7, 2019

This text was originally published in the section “Space” of the online publishing platform Medium in…

Tools for a future-proof development. A conversation with Cristina Gabetti

By Sara D'Agati | January 30, 2019

Cristina Gabetti is a journalist and writer, an expert on sustainability and ecology, and much,…

An Archeology of Diving

By MAP Office | January 23, 2019

EDITOR’S NOTE: Maintaining old traditions alive is not always nostalgia. In some cases, it stems from…

Broken Nature

The XXII Triennale di Milano, Broken Nature: Design Takes on Human Survival, highlights the concept of restorative design and studies the state of the threads that connect humans to their natural environments––some frayed, others altogether severed. In exploring architecture and design objects and concepts at all scales and in all materials, Broken Nature celebrates design’s ability to offer powerful insight into the key issues of our age, moving beyond pious deference and inconclusive anxiety. By turning its attention to human existence and persistence, the XXII Triennale will promote the importance of creative practices in surveying our species’ bonds with the complex systems in the world, and designing reparations when necessary, through objects, concepts, and new systems. Even to those who believe that the human species is inevitably going to become extinct at some point in the (near? far?) future, design presents the means to plan a more elegant ending. It can ensure that the next dominant species will remember us with a modicum of respect: as dignified and caring, if not intelligent, beings.

Broken Nature is composed of a thematic exhibition and a number of international participations solicited through official channels. It will run from March 1 to September 1, 2019.