Valparaíso’s free trades gathering challenges luxury craft: can premium commissions or public training better sustain skills, livelihoods and succession?
Studio Saar’s Pangolin Shield at London Design Festival asks whether shelter can confront colonial power—or simply make it more photogenic.
Drift and Shigeru Ban’s illuminated towers pose a hard question: can a drone memorial honour individual lives without turning grief into spectacle?
Omar Degan’s Pan-African Biennale 2026 challenges national narratives. But who defines African modernity—and who gets left outside the conversation?
As America turns 250, design becomes a battleground over who belongs, who speaks, and whether a shared symbol still exists.
Taipei’s drone exhibition turns the skyline into a temporary civic screen—wonder, commerce, airspace, and urban memory collide.
Dataland’s Los Angeles opening forces museums to decide if AI art is authorship, craft, or just tech validation.
Belfast Photo Festival turns manual cameras into a debate on heritage, destruction, and creative use.
Studio closures and indie exits signal a design shift: prestige is moving from empires to agile, authorship-driven practices.
The Bowie exhibition shows why immersive displays work best when they build atmosphere, narrative and memory—not just digital spectacle.