Editorial

  1. Read more: Magnetism translated into wearable form: industrial × Claustrum
    Magnetism translated into wearable form: industrial × Claustrum

    Magnetism translated into wearable form: industrial × Claustrum

    by @industrialkonzept Team

    Founded in 2004, Claustrum emerged when designer Takeshi Endo transformed his grandparents’ plate glass workshop in Ginza into a studio dedicated t...
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  2. Read more: The Sculptor and the Ashtray: A Contradiction of Ritual and Relic

    The Sculptor and the Ashtray: A Contradiction of Ritual and Relic


    The Sculptor and the Ashtray: A Contradiction of Ritual and Relic


    by Anoe Melliou

    In 1944, Isamu Noguchi was a struggling artist amid financial uncertainty. He turned to an object both mundane and universal: the ashtray. As a sm...
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  3. Read more: NOT A HOTEL: Rethinking Hospitality for a New Era
    NOT A HOTEL: Rethinking Hospitality for a New Era

    NOT A HOTEL: Rethinking Hospitality for a New Era

    by @industrialkonzept Team

    Are hotels dying? Or are they merely sloughing off an old skin to expose something new? The pandemic and subsequent economic hardship have unmistak...
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  4. Read more: 10 Cathedrals of Concrete: A New Theology of Space
    10 Cathedrals of Concrete: A New Theology of Space

    10 Cathedrals of Concrete: A New Theology of Space

    by @industrialkonzept Team

    Churches were not founded by religion alone but where political will, social stratification, and public ritual converged. From the intimate gatheri...
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  5. Read more: How Biodesign Is Rewiring Our Relationship With Nature
    How Biodesign Is Rewiring Our Relationship With Nature

    How Biodesign Is Rewiring Our Relationship With Nature

    by @industrialkonzept Team

    Human beings have never been external to nature; we are its continuation, not its exception. And still, modern societies act as if the natural worl...
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  6. Read more: Annotations cc: Liv Vaisberg
    Annotations cc: Liv Vaisberg

    Annotations cc: Liv Vaisberg

    by Anoe Melliou

    Liv Vaisberg, (co-)founder of several pioneering fairs, including COLLECTIBLE in Brussels and New York, shares her approach to collecting, and her...
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  7. Read more: Dwelling as a Democratic and Spatial Act
    Dwelling as a Democratic and Spatial Act

    Dwelling as a Democratic and Spatial Act

    by @industrialkonzept Team

    I asked myself what abitare actually was. Not just in its functional sense, but in its most whole, most subtle sense. The word derives from the Lat...
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  8. Read more: The Lost Ritual of Lunch: A Tradition Ready for Rebirth
    The Lost Ritual of Lunch: A Tradition Ready for Rebirth

    The Lost Ritual of Lunch: A Tradition Ready for Rebirth

    by @industrialkonzept Team

    There was a time when eating together wasn’t just about feeding oneself. It was a ritual, a social act charged with political, cultural, and emotio...
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  9. Read more: Where Craft Meets Industry: The Tom Ducarouge Approach
    Where Craft Meets Industry: The Tom Ducarouge Approach

    Where Craft Meets Industry: The Tom Ducarouge Approach

    by @industrialkonzept Team

    Craftsmanship. It’s a word that resonates across design, fashion, food, and furniture — a term that conjures up the idea of timeless expertise, a s...
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