Mainifesto — Architecture, Design & AI Perspectives

Independent critical perspectives on architecture, interiors, product design and technology, shaped by human editorial direction and AI-assisted publishing.

Editorial photograph of three generations around a modest kitchen table at dusk, two wearing minimalist wristband.

Luffu Link promises shared family health tracking. But when does AI-assisted care become surveillance—and who gets to switch it off?

Editorial photograph of a low-rise housing construction site in Denmark, a gantry-mounted concrete printer spanning.

Denmark’s 36-home experiment tests whether 3D-printed housing can widen access—or simply automate construction’s existing inequalities.

Editorial photograph of a tiny contemporary house on a narrow residential lane in Tokyo, its upper.

Tokyo’s tiny homes turn parking into architecture. Is the car-sized void a spatial breakthrough—or a costly surrender of light, space and flexibility?

Editorial photograph of a Scandinavian living room at dusk, centered on two nearly identical teddy-fleece sofa.

OMHU's cheaper Tedy sofa dupe weaponizes copy culture—but does parody expose design's problems or normalize stolen authorship?

Editorial photograph inside a Homo Faber exhibition space on San Giorgio Maggiore in Venice, with visitors.

Homo Faber in Venice makes craft a radical answer to AI. But can hand-making shape the future without becoming an elite luxury?

Editorial photograph of a Manchester City football shirt displayed on a worktable inside a contemporary sportswear.

Manchester City's new Puma shirt was shaped by a fan and AI. We ask who owns the design when participation becomes automated.

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