The Future Laboratory

Square play: Architect kits out store with plywood shelves as disrupted grid

Milan – Kengo Kuma, the Japanese architect of his own eponymous practice, has installed a grid-based display system at the new store he designed for Camper shoes on Montenapoleone.

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Sub-Saharan Africa

Bending the rules: A flexible way to make furniture

South Africa – South African-based architectural, interior and furniture design specialist Wintec Innovation has created Stratflex, a technology that enables normally rigid flat boards to become flexible.

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Technology

Shaping up: Micro-manufacturing on the street

London – Assemble & Join, a new community space in the Lower Marsh street in Waterloo, aims to strengthen the neighbourhood’s local character by ‘bringing digital manufacturing to the high street’.

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Food & Drink

Yoi story: Asian street food comes to Stockholm

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Fashion

New Designers 2012

Graduate exhibitors at the New Designers 2013 show at London’s Islington Design Centre provided alternative views on design. Many explored the idea of open-source design networks and new opportunities for interdisciplinary collaboration.