Author: Lucy Gong

Carla Fernández & Pedro Reyes are a creative couple living and working in Mexico City. As a fashion designer collaborating with communities and a sculptor working with social interaction, they share a fierce passion for the preservation of indigenous, modernist, and contemporary Mexican culture. Speaking from their celebrated self-designed home as laboratory, they presented their […]

Read More… from Design in Dialogue #58: Pedro Reyes and Carla Fernández

Florian Idenburg and Jing Liu of the architecture and design firm SO-IL discussed their international practice, which ranges across scales from the object to the city. Whether designing seating or an entire museum, SO-IL’s work is always activated by the core principle of increasing public awareness about our social and physical surroundings.   Watch the […]

Read More… from Design in Dialogue #57: Florian Idenburg and Jing Liu

London-born Beatrice Galilee is the cofounder and executive director of The World Around design conference. Over the past decade, her positions and projects have ranged from the Metropolitan Museum’s first associate curator of architecture & design to co-curating three architecture biennales, to launching the popular lecture series, In Our Time, A Year of Architecture In […]

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Felix Burrichter is the editor of PIN-UP – “the only biannual Magazine for Architectural Entertainment” – now approaching its fifteen-year anniversary. In this conversation with Glenn Adamson, he told the story of this inventive and influential publication, and also talked about three curatorial projects: ‘Superbenches’ in Järfälla, Sweden; ‘Pavillion de L’Esprit Nouveau’ at the Swiss […]

Read More… from Design in Dialogue #55: Felix Burrichter

As museums around the world struggle to reopen, the MAXXI architecture museum in Rome has launched the innovative Casa Mondo exhibition on Instagram. @maxxicasamondo is the museum’s first digital exhibition and may even be the first of its kind to draw on archival material, feature a fully designed digital exhibition space by Formafantasma, and commission […]

Read More… from Design in Dialogue #54: Domitilla Dardi

Simone LeAmon and Ewan McEoin, curators at the National Gallery of Victoria in Melbourne, have built Australia’s most ambitious museum program for contemporary design. In this conversation with Glenn Adamson, they described past commissions and exhibitions, and offered a sneak preview of the design components in the forthcoming NGV Triennial.   Watch the conversation here: […]

Read More… from Design in Dialogue #53: Simone LeAmon and Ewan McEoin

Ekene Ijeoma is an artist based between Brooklyn and Boston working at the intersections of life experiences, data studies, performance, and social efficacy creating artworks ranging from apps and websites to music performances and interactive installations. Through multiple fields of research, he translates data into multimedia using computational design and conceptual art strategies. Ekene recently […]

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Dan Barber, a leading voice on local food and sustainability and the ceramist Gregg Moore discussed how their conversations and Gregg’s craftsmanship draws on the materiality of the farm landscape to provide a deeply thoughtful and aesthetically resolved dining experience.   Watch the conversation here:   About Design in Dialogue Inaugurated on April 1, 2020, […]

Read More… from Design in Dialogue #51: Dan Barber and Gregg Moore

Montreal natives and twin brothers Byron and Dexter Peart are the founders of GOODEE, an e-commerce direct-to-consumer platform that brings together the values of good design and good purpose across the home, beauty, accessory, and design stories told on the site and embodied in the brands featured. Our conversation will span the broad range of […]

Read More… from Design in Dialogue #50: Byron and Dexter Peart

Bijoy Jain, founder of the architectural practice Studio Mumbai, shares his philosophy of practice, based in the consideration of local expertise, craft, and patterns of life. We look at a range of products from the scale of buildings to furniture, which draw creatively on a global palette of forms, materials and skills.   Watch the […]

Read More… from Design in Dialogue #49: Bijoy Jain

Johan Schwind is an industrial designer, programmer, and futurist. His passion for connecting engineering and design to human-friendly technological solutions is at the heart of what he does on a daily basis as design director for Urban X, the groundbreaking BMW start-up incubator in New York City. Johan’s work is extremely hands-on, driven by a […]

Read More… from Design in Dialogue #48: Johan Schwind

Dakin Hart, Senior Curator at the Noguchi Museum, offered an expert overview of Isamu Noguchi’s wide-ranging activities in design. In his conversation with Glenn Adamson, we looked in detail at several case studies over the course of his career, including his early product and furniture designs, set designs for choreographer Martha Graham, and late works […]

Read More… from Design in Dialogue #47: Dakin Hart