Nature has made a determined comeback In the 20 years since Chernobyl's reactor No. 4 turned a...

Adolf Loos' Ornament and Crime holds a favourite ammunition of mine in defense of immateriality: I have therefore evolved the following maxim, and pronounce it to the world: the evolution of culture marches with the elimination of ornament from useful objects. How would I define what ornament is today? Ornament, a constant in decoration culture,...

It must have been twelve years ago. I was sitting in the Retro Cafe down at Salamanca Place here...

Paul Stamets, American mycologist & author, is a passionate believer that mushrooms/funghi,...

Biomimicry is a relatively new science that studies models, systems and processes from nature and...

The posts at emplaced (in What happen to nature?) and the internation initiative (in terrestrials)...

A new book on the influence on art of our ability to perceive depending on the different cultural...

Every molecule, atom, in our body... is self-interested... is self-aware, and determined as...

In the 'tricity' of Gdynia-Sopot-Gdansk in Poland there is a suburb with a cathedral, Oliwa...

Andy Goldsworthy is the zen master of environmental art. His process & work possess a deep...

Leather Landscape (02003) silicone, acrylic, leather, human hair, clothing, timber from We Are...

Freedom of Creation is a design + research company based in Amsterdam. Their designers are...

I was waiting for Mona to drive her VW Beetle through the gate I had opened. We were entering...

From How supercomputers enhance our understanding of genes Biological functionality is...

What is described by Bernard Huberman as an ‘ecology’ of information ‘characterized by...

Apparently neuroaesthetics are the new black, and Professor Raymond Tallis thinks it's wrong....

By Murray Bookchin [Originally published in Bookchin’s newsletter Comment in 1964 and republished in the British monthly Anarchy in 1965.] I am posting part of the essay/manifesto (it can be found here in full): In almost every period since the Renaissance, the development of revolutionary thought has been heavily influenced by a branch...