The Global Futures Lab: A Search for Alternative Futures
Paolo Cardini
While art and architecture have always included critical theories and philosophical thinking as part of their epistemological practice, design only recently emerged from its commercial womb to develop its own critical ...
Future Tense
Felipe Ferrer
We visited three Peruvian artisans in the workshop, one from the cost, one from the mountains and one from the jungle. It was a resume of how can we understand Peruvian geography and culture. All artisans were living ...
Design Futures in Iran
Saeid Aliari
This article is about the future of societies. A future that is rooted in their cultural identity and described by a tool called Design. In this essay, we will analyze the key issues of future, culture and design, and their ...
Future Thinking in the Indian Context
Praveen Nahar
With its large population and enormous socio-cultural- economic-environmental diversity, India is seen as microcosm for the world. Most of the challenges that the world faces today are all present in India ...
Souvenirs desde la Habana
Milvia Perez
La realidad se muestra en la interacción de nuestra mente con un entorno que conscientemente distinguimos. Esa realidad contiene los procesos culturales que nos definen, atendiendo a elementos, étnicos, ...
Ethiopian art and Discursive trends.
Dawit Benti
Ethiopia, a country shrouded in mystery, has usually defied characterization into a cluster, although it is widely believed to have offered the first humans and coffee beans to the world; the wisest of all sentient beings ...
Debating the Global Now
Gwen Farrelly
On March 1 and 2, 2018, a team of partners from across the world will join together at the Rhode Island School of Design (RISD) site in Rome and the MAXXI museum to question what the future looks like when imagined ...