Headline & Editorial
Last Issue: #31 The Journey
Twenty thousand leagues under the sea by Jules Verne (1825-1905). This book is the answer to my thoughts on travel. It certainly anticipated the saga...Read more
Milan, Thursday 10:00 a.m.
Magazine -> #3 Weaving relationsMilan, the world capital of fashion and design. This link between fashion and design seems to merge the two disciplines, blending their environments and dynamics. There is one person, however, who wants to keep them well separated, critiquing his own circle of designers: Enzo Mari. First and foremost an artist, and then a designer at international ...
continue..Bonami’s “glomanticism”
Magazine -> #5 The Dictatorship of the ConsumptionIs there any correspondence between the pseudo needs of a consumer and a visitor's needs? Visitors do not have pseudo needs but rather unexpressed or repressed needs, if any; on the contrary, consumers almost always have needs that are falsely generated by the external impulses of the economic and social context. To the world of consumption, visi...
continue..Simply perfect
Magazine -> #22 KaizenStarting from its core principle, that is the progressive reduction of waste in the production process considered as “anactivity" that adds costs without adding value”, kaizen’s philosophy may be equated with the principle of simplicity and simplification, two distinct modes of the same outlook. Can such a concept, originally developed in an...
continue..City: a history book
Magazine -> #19 AequòpolisObviously, the imagination feeds on knowledge. You need to know things before you can imagine them. This is where it comes in handy to read books about that concentrated mass of human history: cities. In Europe, large cities are usually unsuitable, even to accommodate modernity. Even in a metropolis like London or Paris, where large avenues were ...
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