MENASA, the new Arab platform devoted to craftsmanship is the subject of an article in identity magazine

What can design and craft reveal about the essence of a place and its people? How can it connect and find shared values with others? Expo 2020 Dubai’s Design and Crafts Programme has launched MENASA – Emirati Design Platform to offer a glimpse of what these answers could look like. Showcasing more than 40 local and international designers who have created exclusive curated design collections, MENASA tells the stories of the UAE through the lens of its crafts and artisans”... (continue reading)

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Parametric architecture: what it is, its origins and some examples of Parametricism

From Luigi Moretti at the 1960 Triennale to Patrik Schumacher’s manifesto and the works of Zaha Hadid: a history of architecture that entrusts form to algorithms, and which seeks to evolve from a method into a style

Salvatore Peluso

Exhibitions

Salone Contract 2027: design meets major international projects in Torre PwC

Report of the event on Friday 9 October, the first stage of the itinerary of discussion devoted to the debut of Salone Contract towards the 2027 edition

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ADI Design Museum: the Compasso d’Oro collection reinterpreted from scratch

Five years since it opened, the museum in Milan presents the first new scientific reordering of its Historical Collection. Curator Maite García Sanchis relates how the way of interpreting over seventy years of design is changing, while Domitilla Dardi explains why the “Anthological” study enables the award-winning objects to dialogue with literature