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COVID-19 and spatial perception: The first digital Vitra Summit addresses the ramifications of the crisis for architecture and design.

From March 26, 2022 Vitra Design Museum in Weil/Rhein is presenting the exhibition “Plastic. Remaking Our World”. In the following interview head curator Dr. Jochen Eisenbrand tells us whether plastic can ever be sustainable and what surprised him during his research.

The film "Monobloc" by Hauke Wendler puts the internationally present white plastic chair in the spotlight, but leaves important facts in the shadows.

Why do chairs have to be connected to crash bars? And what is the purpose of installing a fire hose on an armchair? In his “New Normals” solo show in Berlin's Haus am Waldsee, Konstantin Grcic shows how much our idea of normality is associated with objects.

At the Bomma Atelier in Prague, not only glass art connoisseurs and design lovers get their fill, also fans of cubism should not miss the Gesamtkunstwerk.

According to a statement posted by Virgil Abloh's family on the social network Instagram, the internationally renowned designer passed away after a long battle with cancer.

This year's 3daysofdesign in Copenhagen celebrates a new togetherness and shows how important personal exchange is.

On the death of Pauline Deltour (1983-2021).

From 9 to 11 September 2021, current questions about urban development will be discussed in Frankfurt am Main as part of the new festival "S.O.U.P. – Shaping Our Urban Phuture". An interdisciplinary mediation involving citizens is planned.

Studio Ben Allen has painstakingly modernized a terraced Victorian house in London and added an extension to it, one that combines various different styles. “House Recast” recently received the 2021 “Don't Move, Improve” award.

Studio Besau-Marguerre has created an interior design concept for the workrooms of the Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe MK&G in Hamburg that combines different trends.

"The Power of Design" is the title of a recent documentary by Reinhild Dettmer-Finke, a collaboration between ZDF/ARTE and Kobalt Documentary.

From Ikea into the museum: Industrial designer Hella Jongerius researches into the future of textile manufacture. On her new exhibition "Woven Cosmos" at Berlin’s Gropius Bau.