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Living Root Bridge Ecosystems of India

By Sanjeev Shankar | March 29, 2018

Locally known as jingkieng jri, Living Root Bridges are Ficus elastica-based infrastructure and landscape solutions…

A conversation between Gillo Dorfles and Aldo Colonetti on the theme of the XXII Triennale di Milano, “Broken Nature: Design Takes on Human Survival”

By Aldo Colonetti | March 13, 2018

Gillo Dorfles was born in Trieste on April 12, 1910. The cultural pluralism of the port…

Age of Entanglement

By Neri Oxman | March 1, 2018

This text was originally published in the first issue of the Journal of Design and Science on…

Reparations by Design

By Paola Antonelli and Ala Tannir | March 1, 2018

In an attempt to fix a troubled world, Ursula K. Le Guin’s Dr. Haber, an…

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.