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- Let’s stay home! | Design | Architonic
- The Nature of Design: Fast | News | Architonic
- The Esperanto of design languages: HEWI universal design | News | Architonic
- Outdoor Design Week: Eugeni Quitllet | News | Architonic
| Let’s stay home! | Design | Architonic Posted: 31 May 2021 03:00 PM PDT Cocooning… – schon allein beim Lesen möchte man es sich in diesen zwei runden, weichen, warmen Os gemütlich machen. Ein Wort wie ein Ort, das bereits phonetisch einzuhüllen scheint. Vielleicht liegt es aber auch an seiner biologischen Bedeutung, dem Kokon, in den sich die Insektenlarve spinnt, um dort geschützt heranwachsen zu können. Auch die amerikanische Trendforscherin Faith Popcorn bezog sich auf ebendieses Phänomen der Natur, als sie Anfang der 80er Jahre den Begriff des Cocoonings prägte – ein Lebensgefühl, das nach den feierwütigen 70ern und einer neuen Phase des Kalten Krieges zunehmend dem Impuls folgte, sich von der ungemütlichen oder bedrohlichen Aussenwelt in die geschützte Privatsphäre zurückzuziehen. Dabei lässt sich diese Rückbesinnung aufs eigene Heim nicht nur in Krisenzeiten beobachten, sondern gehört in nordischen Ländern seit jeher zur Alltagskultur. Ob als dänisches Hygge, schwedisches Lagom oder schottisches Coorie – was all diese nostalgisch anmutenden Astrid… continue   |
| The Nature of Design: Fast | News | Architonic Posted: 31 May 2021 03:00 PM PDT Everyone loves nature; it's quite unfashionable not to. But one Italian furniture-making company, in particular, seems to cherish it more than most. 'Nature represents the context in which our furnishings are located, but also our daily life, being, as we are, immersed in nature and surrounded by woods between Lake Garda and Lake Idro,' says Marco Levrangi, CEO of outdoor design brand Fast. 'It is an integral part and source of inspiration for most of our products.' This brand-defining embrace of the earth's bounty also comes with a serious commitment to preserving it. 'As an outdoor brand, safeguarding the environment is both a necessity and a raison d'être.' says Levrangi. 'We have always taken a concrete approach to sustainability.' The 'slow' approach to manufacturing is, ironically, Fast's way. For many businesses, sustainability concerns have become pressing of late, requiring serious material and operational analysis and overhaul in order to remain viable in a world that is shun… continue   |
| The Esperanto of design languages: HEWI universal design | News | Architonic Posted: 31 May 2021 03:00 PM PDT People spend most of their time surrounded by architecture, in the presence of material objects. Most of them were invented and designed to help people in some way – to support, aid, assist, or simply just to make life more pleasant. Many products, spaces and built structures have indeed succeeded in this aim, but often only in special product segments, for very narrow target groups, or for a specific period of time. 'Universal design', on the other hand, stretches the demands on design much further, to the extent that ultimately 'everyone' could be considered part of the target group, and the demands which individual people place on good design in their lives are actually met with a creative response. For decades now, HEWI has been consistently distilling this design approach down to a few important principles, which all focus on one thing: people. This premise has made one thing very clear for HEWI when it comes to product development: design is diversity. Design concerns everyone. N… continue   |
| Outdoor Design Week: Eugeni Quitllet | News | Architonic Posted: 31 May 2021 03:00 PM PDT © Architonic continue  |
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