Dezeen rounds up our high 10 dwell talks of the 12 months as a part of our assessment of 2021, that includes discussions with Neri Oxman, Es Devlin, Joseph Grima, Peter Saville and extra.
Es Devlin for Dezeen 15
Es Devlin opened our Dezeen 15 competition this 12 months, which celebrated Dezeen’s fifteenth anniversary with a programme of leading edge designers and designers presenting their manifestos for a greater world.
Devlin joined us dwell from the COP26 local weather convention in Glasgow, the place she had put in an indoor forest to function an occasions house. Through the discuss, Devlin introduced her concept for a car-free future, and imagined trying again from 15 years sooner or later on the optimistic progress made since COP26.
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Oliver Heath on biophilic design
Dezeen teamed up with CDUK for this dwell discuss, hosted in Dezeen’s new Studio House in London. Biophilic designer Oliver Heath talked to Dezeen editor-in-chief Marcus Gala’s about how biophilic design rules may help enhance well being and wellbeing.
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Joseph Grima on non-extractive structure
In April, House Caviar co-founder Joseph Grima spoke to Dezeen about his manifesto for a brand new mode of structure that conserves the Earth’s sources.
Through the discuss, Grima mentioned how younger architects are rejecting “cookie-cutter modernism” in favour of approaches that prioritise conserving the earth’s sources, and proposed an overhaul of our present industrial economies.
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Neri Oxman for Dezeen 15
Closing the Dezeen 15 competition was designer Neri Oxman, who referred to as for a “radical realignment between grown and constructed environments”.
Through the discuss, Oxman additionally introduced the launch of her new studio, OXMAN. “We envision it as a type of a Bell Labs of the twenty first century,” she stated, evaluating it to the legendary innovation division of US telecoms big AT&T.
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Sumayya Vally on the Serpentine Pavillion 2021
To rejoice the revealing of the 2021 Serpentine Pavillion, Dezeen broadcast an in-person interview between Serpentine Gallery inventive director Hans Ulrich Obrist and architect Sumayya Vally.
Talking from inside Vally’s pavilion, the pair mentioned the influences and course of behind her design for the annual fee.
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Gropius Bau and Hella Jongerius on weaving
On this discuss, artist Hella Jongerius and Stephanie Rosenthal, director of the Gropius Bau museum, mentioned Jongerius’ exhibition Woven Cosmos.
The audio system mentioned the therapeutic properties of weaving, and Jongerius’ wider inventive philosophy centred round design, sustainability and spiritualism.
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Rex Weyler on environmental activism and design
To rejoice Greenpeace’s fiftieth anniversary, Dezeen hosted a panel dialogue headed by ecologist and Greenpeace co-founder Rex Weyler, to debate the position of designers in environmental activism.
Additionally becoming a member of the panel have been Canadian architect Michael Inexperienced of Michael Inexperienced Structure and Nina-Marie Lister, professor and graduate director of City & Regional Planning at Ryerson College.
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Peter Saville on his Technicolour assortment for Kvadrat
Streamed dwell from 3 Days of Design in Copenhagen, this discuss featured designer Peter Saville introducing his new Technicolour assortment for Danish textile firm Kvadrat.
The discuss additionally included Kvadrat’s vice chairman of design, Stine Discover Osther, and Dienke Dekker, design supervisor of the model’s rug division.
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How sport engines are reworking structure with Epic Video games
As a part of our Redesign the World competitors in collaboration with Epic Video games, Dezeen hosted a dwell discuss exploring how sport engines like Twinmotion are altering structure.
The discuss mentioned the way forward for digital structure and the rising hyperlink between video video games and structure.
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Reiner de Graaf on his novel The Masterplan
Within the final of our high 10 dwell talks, Dutch architect and OMA associate Reinier de Graaf unveiled particulars about his newest novel The Masterplan.
De Graaf was additionally joined by Russian architect Olga Aleksakova, the co-founder of the Buromoscow studio, and architect and author Mahfuz Sultan.
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