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…
The Roots of Social Design in the Literature
Victor Margolin is Professor Emeritus of Design History at the University of Illinois, Chicago. He is considered today by the scientific community of design researchers as the most reliable design historians. Lately in march 2015 Bloomsbury published his first two…
Social Design and REMAKE @ Design Festival Berlin 2014
Image: © TUTKI. Berlin Design Week (26 May – 01 June) is about to end. Started in 2003 with Designmai, it is a city-wide varied and colourful programme of design events. It positions Berlin as an international creative hub, promoting…
Think Global, Build Social!
The Exhibition “Think Global, Build Social! Architectures for a Better World” is about contemporary architecture’s social responsibility. Far beyond from “star architecture”, the exhibition presents 22 examples of architecture projects that attempt to improve the living conditions of people in…
Bla Bla and Milano Makers
This post is part of the project: “The Social Impact of Milan Design Week 2013″ Bla Bla is an exhibition of the “Non-Serial” Independent Design by MIMA-Milano Makers. It was held in the Cathedral of the Fabbrica del Vapore. Alessandro…
The Pet Lamps and Indeginous People
(This post is part of the project: “The Social Impact of Milan Design Week 2013″). Background It was in summer 2011 that Hélène Le Drogou, a psychologist and activist concerned with the plastic waste of the Colombian Amazon, invited the…
Freedom Room
(This post is part of the project: “The Social Impact of Milan Design Week 2013”). *** Freedom Room is a low cost essential housing module of 4 x 2,7 meters, co-designed and made inside a high security prison in Spoleto,…
The Social Impact of Milan Design Week 2013
The project will investigate the social Impact of Milan Design Week 2013 that will take place from April 9th until April 14th. We will visit the Fuorisalone itineraries looking for the projects with a significant social impact. We will focus on the works…
Color is a key to transforming a city
When a blighted city needs transformation, it’s usually a bulldozer rather than a brush that does the work. Few years ago, Edi Rama, Tirana’s mayor at the time, started in a creative way to paint the sad facades of the…
Indego Africa: entrepreneurship and independence
INDEGO AFRICA is an innovative non-profit social enterprise, the name stands for “independence, development, and governance”—three life-changing attributes that Indego Africa is helping instill in 250 Rwandan women in order to lift them and their families out of poverty. The…
Design for the other 90%
Design for the other 90%, the name is useful to explain the global situation: while the richest 10 percent of the world’s population enjoys the vast majority of consumer goods and services, 5.8 billion people (or 90%) struggle to gain…