A giant wool lamb by Netherlands-based designer Christien Meindertsma, made using a pioneering new fabrication technology, has been unveiled as this year’s MECCA x NGV Women in Design Commission, opening today at the National Gallery of Victoria. Meindertsma’s work ‘First there was a mountain 2024’ repurposes wool from a flock of more than 2000 sheep […]
Christian Tietz, senior lecturer in industrial design at UNSW, explains why in high-density cities, static apartment layouts with one function per room will become a luxury that cannot be maintained. With two-thirds of a global population of 9.4 billion people expected to live in urban areas by 2050, we can expect a change in the […]