In the past few years more and more architecture firms have been founded as collectives in order to pursue a social agenda with their work. One example of this is Lacol from Barcelona. We spoke with founding member Carles Baiges Camprubí about the Spanish firm's specific approach.

Ligne Roset is one of the biggest and best-known brands in the furniture and design industry. The company took a new step and presented its latest innovations at the Palais de Tokyo in Paris. Stylepark met there two generations of the family business for an interview: father and son Pierre and Antoine Roset.

Patrick Norguet has designed the modular add-on sofa system "Jeff" for Pedrali, which can be flexibly configured via connecting hooks. The French designer combines gentle curves with a rectangular body and also offers many possibilities to individualise the design. He explains the concept to us in an interview.

Our author Thomas Edelmann recently met Konstantin Grcic in Milan on the way to his exhibition "Ceci n'est pas un mur". A conversation about experiments and current question marks in design.

Alicja Kwade is one of today’s most important contemporary artists. In her sculptures, installations, videos, and photographs, she questions the systems that we use to understand the world. Moreover, with her architectural sculptures she creates a new frame of perception. In the interview she gives us insights into her work.

Signe Byrdal Terenziani is the founder and director of the annual design event 3daysofdesign in Copenhagen. Within just a few years, she has managed to establish a format that sets Danish design in the international spotlight. In an interview, she tells us about her concept and what guests can expect this year from 15 to 17 June 2022.

David Kosock and Joern Scheipers established Studio Vaust in 2018. Their portfolio in the fields of design and architecture is as comprehensive as it is idiosyncratic. In the interview, Kosock explains to us what it is about stones that fascinates the two men and what benefits an “offbeat” résumé can have.

Carl Hansen & Son is one of the classics among Danish furniture manufacturers, with a rich portfolio of iconic designs. We spoke to CEO Knud Erik Hansen about the company's DNA and its future.

HPP Architekten are realising "The Cradle" for the Interboden Group – a concise timber hybrid building in element construction, in which the holistic approach is in the foreground. Antonino Vultaggio, senior partner responsible for the project at HPP Architekten, explains the concept to us in an interview.

Dr. Christine Lemaitre is Chief Executive Officer of the DGNB e.V., the German Sustainable Building Council. She is also a jury member of the German Sustainability Award Design, which is being awarded for the third time this year. We spoke to her about holistic sustainability concepts, greenwashing and sustainable design solutions.

Quo vadis Messe Frankfurt? Iris Jeglitza-Moshage, Managing Director of the Technology Division, and Johannes Möller, Head of Brand Management at Light + Building, tell the publishers of Stylepark what milestones the trade fair, congress and event organiser has reached and what goals it has in mind.

From June 21 to 24, 2022, the Heimtextil Summer Special will take place in Frankfurt/Main coinciding with the Techtextil and Texprocess trade fairs. Olaf Schmidt, Vice President Textiles and Textile Technologies, tells us in an interview what exhibitors and visitors can expect from the special format.

In recent years, aerial tramways have increasingly been brought into play as a means of transport in urban areas. We spoke to Reinhard Fitz, Head of International Business Development at Doppelmayr, about aerial tramways for the city and the need for a new form of connectivity.

In his book "Retail in Transition", architect Caspar Schmitz-Morkramer reflects on the question of how online retail is presently affecting urban centres. We spoke to him about the opportunities digitalisation presents as well as a longing for vibrant cities.

Furniture, luminaires, interiors, brand presences: What Note Design Studio from Stockholm creates looks fresh and contemporary. Behind it is a collective of designers and architects. Even interviews are not necessarily the founders' business: we spoke to graphic designer and art director Johanna Lundberg and furniture designer Joel Fjällström.

Maria Porro is the president of the Salone del Mobile.Milano, which will take place this year in Milan from 7 to 12 June 2022. In an interview she told us what she is focusing on at the moment as well as what visitors can look forward to.

The design studio and social enterprise Weserholz from Bremen uses design as a tool: From educational programmes to classic cooperation with companies, the team offers ecological and socially sustainable design. Industrial and product designer Armando Cornejo Chavez tells us in an interview what that means exactly.

Interior designer Cord Glantz of Geplan Design has created a “temporary home” at the b'mine hotel at Frankfurt Airport. Here, guests can sit down on furniture by Rolf Benz. In this interview, Glantz explains the concept to the publishers of Stylepark.

The Munich-based company Ambright has developed a light printing technology that enables architects, designers, and planners to create individual lighting solutions and have them produced immediately. The company’s founder and managing director Dr.-Ing. Florian Ilchmann tells us how it all works.

Designer and professor Bitten Stetter is the head of research for the Trends & Identity programme at the Zurich University of the Arts. She is currently developing prototypes for products that can be used in palliative care. In this interview she talks about how she is working to break a social taboo and what benefits product design can have at the end of a person's life.

Industrial and product designer Marco Dessí was born in the Italian city of Merano in the South Tyrolean Alps and lives in Vienna. He tells us in an interview why design is an interactive process for him and it is worthwhile to reinterpret the work of the old masters.

Attorney at Law Philip M. Jakober specializes in intellectual property rights, in particular copyright law, trademark law, design law and competition law. He tells us in an interview when a work is plagiarism and how designers can protect themselves.

Pieterjan Gijs and Arnout Van Vaerenbergh create works that oscillate between architecture and art – and challenge observers to question their customary perception of buildings.

Marva Griffin established the SaloneSatellite in 1998 and since then has made it possible for over 13,000 young designers to present their work to an international public at Salone del Mobile. She talks to us about what motivates her, her love of design and tells us about her current plans.

Petra Kahlfeldt's appointment as Berlin's Senate Building Director has been polarising. In an interview with Stylepark, she talks about ideological rifts, her suitability for the post and the reactions to her appointment.

The Deutsches Ledermuseum in Offenbach am Main is showing "TSATSAS. Einblick, Rückblick, Ausblick" (past, present, future) from 1 April 2022, a solo show on the portfolio of the leather manufacturer, which manages the balancing act between local production and an international presence. Dimitrios Tsatsas explains the concept of the exhibition and why design needs no ornamentation.

Hubert Klumpner is a professor of architecture and urban design at the ETH Zurich's Department of Architecture and a founding partner of Urbanthinktank_next. In an interview he told us what is important in the planning of urban space today, what is lacking and what we can learn from cities in the global south.

Jonsara Ruth is a designer, artist and design director of the Healthy Materials Lab, as well as the founding director of the Interior Design MFA programme at Parsons School of Design in New York City. She explains her commitment to sustainable building in an interview.

Transport expert Stefan Carsten researches the future of mobility. In an interview he explained to us why networked concepts and a holistic view of urban, suburban and rural areas are essential.

As a result of the Russian war of aggression against Ukraine, numerous companies have interrupted their work on projects in Russia – including many architecture firms. UNStudio tell us in an interview which designs they have stopped and whether morality is elementary in architecture.

Studying sustainable design – how does it work? Prof. Jörg Gätjens, lecturer at the public school ecosign/Akademie für Gestaltung in Cologne explains to us the concept for a design education that focuses on a sense of responsibility for the environment and society.

Prof. Karl Leo is a semiconductor physicist and conducts research on highly efficient OLED displays with his team at the Technical University of Dresden. He explains his research and the status quo of OLED technology to us in an interview.

Studio Drift designs fantastic works that use complex structures, kinetics, and light to illustrate the relationships between nature, humans and technology and to question our constructed world. In the interview, Lonneke Gordijn tells us why emotions play a crucial role in communication for the duo.

"The 8 X Jeff Koons," a limited-edition interpretation of the "M850i xDrive Gran Coupé," is the result of a collaboration between Jeff Koons and BMW. We spoke with BMW designer Corona Döring and press spokesman Steven Wörns about the artistic intention for the car.

NKBAK's architecture follows no particular design idiom, but instead develops what already exists on site. We spoke with Nicole Kerstin Berganski and Andreas Krawczyk about Frankfurt am Main, respect for historical layers, and the influence Japanese architecture has had on them.