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Browsing London Design Biennale 2018

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Design

Thought Starter: Design as a tool for emotional self-manipulation

The London Design Biennale’s second iteration – Emotional States – charts how the design industry is increasingly adapting its conceptual practices, manufacturing processes and ultimate outputs to capitalise on design’s ability to manipulate how we feel.

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Design

The value of kerbside sanctuaries

Lebanon – As brands look to increasingly co-opt our future city spaces, injecting unprecedented levels of sensory stimulation, many designers are re-evaluating the role architecture can play in providing sanctuary from the urban environment.

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Design

Climate change’s new economies and rituals

Austria – An exercise in speculative futures, Austria’s After Abundance installation explored the emotional impact of climate change on communities that live in close harmony with their environment. ‘The uncertainty in facing climate change triggers fear, anger and the feeling of helplessness,’ explains curator Thomas Geisler. ‘It’s something we…

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Design

Gaming’s therapeutic potential

Dundee – While video games are often wrongly castigated for promoting negative behaviours, the medium has in recent years become central to the fight against various mental health issues.

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Design

A tool for creating post-national identities

Puerto Rico – As an unincorporated territory of the USA – a state in which natives can call themselves Americans but hold no voting rights – Puerto Ricans are well versed in navigating the complexities of what nationality truly means.

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Technology

A field guide to subverting surveillance

United States of America – The confluence of computer vision, artificial intelligence and mass surveillance is creating a crisis of identity for many of today’s consumers, forcing them to question the cost of showing their true emotions.