Francesc Gasch
Founder & Editor, Mainifesto
Founder and Editor of Mainifesto. Barcelona-based designer writing about architecture, design, technology and culture, with responsibility for the publication’s editorial direction and standards.
Articles by Francesc Gasch
Marinas promise public waterfronts, but can civic access survive luxury development, branding, and privatized urban renewal?
Simon Weckert’s Digital Camouflage turns clothing into digital resistance—and asks who public space is really designed to serve.
The Kennedy Center demolition fight asks whether cultural landmarks can adapt to political priorities—or whether civic memory has a point of no return.
London Museum’s relaunch asks whether civic memory can survive spectacle, branding, and a highly managed architectural identity.
As America turns 250, design becomes a battleground over who belongs, who speaks, and whether a shared symbol still exists.
AI is shifting design from image-making to editing, judgment, and taste. What remains human may be the real creative edge.
When restoring vintage superyachts costs more than new build, is it preservation—or luxury performance?
Inflatable air-conditioning fashion and reactive objects signal a future where comfort becomes portable, intimate, and unequal.
Japan’s former Nara Prison becomes a hotel—does adaptive reuse preserve memory, or market it as atmosphere?
Jayden Ali’s LFA theme asks whether architecture can turn belonging into a shared, measurable spatial outcome.
