Membrane or cable-net constructions and pneumatic affairs: From the mid-20th century onward, thanks to new materials and the inventiveness of a few pioneering architects in the field of textile constructions, a new sense of lightness entered architecture.

With coatings, technical details and new production methods makers of carpets and floor coverings are offering a new approach to room design. An overview of selected innovations@Domotex.

Are we soon going to be wearing “digital fashion”? Will jackets with integrated solar cells, lingerie with inbuilt GPS systems and 3D-printed garments be posing a serious threat to tried-and-tested manufacturing processes?

The cause of numerous traffic-jams is often the driver himself. Franziska Queling talked to Congestion researcher Micheal Schreckenberg about cooperatively acting ants and what lessons we can learn from them.

Walls becoming doors: Car concepts inspired by nature.

It needn’t always be digital. The good old notebook, without the upper case N, proves its worth in an age when everyone has to be permanently creative.

Anyone who has become accustomed to striding across Cologne in January every year, half freezing to death, can look forward to something really special in June. From June 20-24, Cologne is now showing its design profile in the summer, too, and in the form of Rheindesign has kicked off a summer festival in which creativity will conquer the city and the general public be given every reason to enthuse.