Written by Mavi Irmak Karademirler   Dutch Design Week takes place every year in Eindhoven. In October 2019, the Design Week was organized around an urgent slogan: “If not now, then when?” The Design Week features design processes and design explorations which work with different materials, methods and techniques with a focus on future-oriented design…

Written by Yotam Rozin   FROM PEOPLE, FOR PEOPLE, the slogan was slickly displayed in a bold geometric sans-serif font on the clean white walls of an exclusive new concept store SELF by Julian Hertzel, alongside large LED screens with high-end promotional videos for its products. The pop-up store, by one of Europe’s most celebrated…

Our first [urban interfaces] newsletter is now live! You can check it out here. To receive updates about [urban interfaces], and learn about interesting events, calls for papers, talks, and more, subscribe to our newsletter here!

Written by Hymke Theunissen   A hand drawn guide pops up on my Instagram. Quickly scribbled and colourful reusable items are surrounded by little green leaves. A bottle, a bag and some second-hand clothes circle around the text “CREATE LESS WASTE.” The guide looks simple. The items seem to carelessly dance in a happy green…

Written by Duncan W. Lievi   In “Future Imperfect: Science, Technology, and the Imaginations of Modernity,” Sheila Jasanoff (2015) defines her concept of socio-technical imaginaries. One of the most engaging points, even though very explicit, in the text was the relationship between social structures and knowledge. Jasanoff, referring to one of her earlier works, writes,…