The design industry, it seems—after decades of treating cultural and historic knowledge systems as irrelevant or constrictive—is now looking in the rearview mirror, perhaps in the hopes of identifying ...

The programme of the pavilion expanded to incorporate its patron’s passion for teaching, as well as his interests in mentoring and general social interaction. In addition to a chess academy, Soil ...

The Sindhu Project was thought at a civilisational scale, splitting across Lahore and Delhi, so its structure enacted the very rupture it examined, which is a curator thinking in form, not theme. MOOL ...

There is often a predictable path that these conversations tread, especially when earmarked by a remarkable achievement or award—moving from influence, to style, to legacy and everything else in ...

The ‘foundational text’ for Western civilisation—recorded with the help of the relatively new technology of the written alphabet—was a tale of veteran homecoming that reckoned with then-contemporary ...

Speaking with Daehyung Lee, artistic director of the biennale's 13th edition, STIR explores the platform's focus on the future of ceramics and the human-nature-technology triad.

Just before the interbellum, in 1915, Helpman village was added to the city of Groningen’s southern side. At the end of the 20th century, in a time of economic prosperity, the North Netherlands ...

Pranjal is a writer and researcher, originally trained as an architect, with over three years of experience across design and research at the intersection of sustainable cooling solutions and ...

What might turn the tide of the evident, rampant degradation of the environment is perhaps a positive speculation, an insight into a potential future that dissolves the duality of man and nature. What ...

Sahra Hersi: I come from a minority group, a minority within a minority in the UK, and I wanted to work with voices similar to mine. So much of my practice involves workshops and community ...

Zohran Mamdani’s campaign design was led by Forge, the creative co-op helmed by Aneesh Bhoopathy Image: Courtesy of Forge The vivid blue background, paired with hot orange and sunlight yellow ...

Speaking with STIR, the Thailand-based studio's founders elaborate on their understanding of working with Asian contexts and their fascination with openness and ephemerality.