Design

DESIGNBOOM CHECKS INTO MILAN DESIGN WEEK 2026!   We dream in hotels, jet-lagged, suspended between time zones, held in transient comfort. What if our dreams weren’t just nocturnal illusions, but blueprints for a better world?   During Milan Design Week 2026, designboom checks into the ME Milan Il Duca hotel with ROOM FOR DREAMS, a […]

the new museum exhibits early visions of new humans   Proposing an unsettling vision of humanity, New Humans: Memories of the Future takes over the New Museum‘s recently completed expansion. Curating the exhibition, the museum’s Artistic Director Massimiliano Gioni gathers more than a century of artists’ responses to moments when technology and society reframed the

Rock and Roll: Synthetic Incubators for a Post-Human Nature   The project Rock and Roll proposes a system of synthetic incubators positioned within the Inglewood Oil Field, LA, reconfiguring a former industrial site through a combination of architectural prototypes and speculative ecological processes. The design by Zihua Mo and Chunyu Ma explores how constructed systems

la biennale di venezia unveils reimagined central pavilion   La Biennale di Venezia reveals its fully refurbished Central Pavilion at the Giardini, completing a 16-month intervention just ahead of the 2026 Art Biennale. The project reworks one of the exhibition’s most historically layered buildings into a spatially coherent and technically integrated environment. The renewed pavilion

jane jacobs’ utopia is community   There is a moment, early in The Death and Life of Great American Cities, when activist Jane Jacobs describes a city sidewalk in use: ‘People get advice from the grocer and give advice to the newsstand man, compare opinions with other customers at the bakery and nod hello to the

how can materials generate movement, behavior, interaction?   Material Interactions is a collaborative project by Nadya Suvorova and Heidi Jalkh, presenting a series of five kinetic sculptures that explore the role of materials as active components within design systems. Rather than treating matter as passive, the project investigates how materials can exhibit responsive behaviors, contributing