The Staatliche Hochschule für Gestaltung [HfG] from Karlsruhe, Germany, was opened as a state design college on 15 April 1992. Together with the Zentrum für Kunst und Medientechnologie [ZKM], which concentrates on art and media technology, and the municipal Städtische Galerie, the HfG now occupies a 300 -metre long, revitalised industrial f...

WE HAVE ASKED MICHEL ROTH, CUISINE DIRECTOR OF THE RITZ HOTEL IN PARIS, HOW IMPORTANT TIME IS IN A KITCHEN WHERE DAILY ROUTINE IS CHARACTERISED BY LITTLE TIME AND HECTIC RHYTHMS. Passion does not take time into account. I do not count the hours I spend at work, but I do count the time it takes to do a job: there are time limits that are dictated b...

TREVISO, A FORMER FOUNDRY, REFURBISHED. We are standing on a loft from which we can see a group of young people at work and only a few metres away, others are playing pool, having a break from the project. E-TREE, ALSO CALLED THE "NOSLEEPING COMPANY" IS KNOWN MORE FOR ITS EXPERIMENTS WITH WORKING ENVIRONMENT DESIGNING THAN FOR ITS PRODUCTS. WHA...

Experimentation, innovation and creation are everything. Such a statement presents a comprehensive basis for things which we encounter in our everyday life, which people belonging to various cultures and classes all around the world meet in their everyday life. The relationship between content and form, and the aesthetic disunity of an ordinary da...

Cappellini is almost always the main actor to every major design "event". The latest edition of the Furniture Exhibition in Milan, but mostly the "Side Events to the Exhibition", confirmed how important "Creating Opportunities" is for the Cappellini company and its goals. There are two reasons, in particular, why "Creating Opportunities" is fundam...

After thirty years spent in Asia as correspondent for Der Spiegel and collaborator for Italian newspapers, Tiziano Terzani has definitely not lost one bit of the intense warmth and the impetus of his homeland, Tuscany. These characteristics however, are now mingled with the peaceful and ascetic wisdom that has been transferred onto him by the cult...

Time and rhythm are an integral part of modern life and they can be experienced either as incentives to improve or as reasons for dissatisfaction. Today, our attention is turned to the well being of our social system: there is clear evidence of this in science, technology and culture, but the objective is not always attained in a harmonised and hom...

"SO, WHAT IS TIME? WHEN NO ONE ASKS ME, I KNOW THE ANSWER; WHEN I WANT TO EXPLAIN IT TO WHO IS ASKING THE QUESTION, THEN I DON'T KNOW ANYMORE" This is what S. Agostino wrote in "Le confessioni" and it well synthesises how difficult it is to define time. The definition provided by Zingarelli, author of the renowned dictionary of the Italian languag...

Inteview with Giacomo Biviano and Furio Suggi Liverani. LET'S TALK ABOUT TIME AND RHYTHM: WHICH OF THESE TWO NOTIONS IS CLOSEST TO YOU? GB - I'm careful about both, without underrating them. I use time and respect it both as an individual and as a professional; in a way, I live with time. Continuous appointments, contracts to settle, monthly...