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09/06/2026

Episode 03 of ‘The Milan Edit’ is here.

This time, we sit down with , the visionary designer whose work has redefined the boundaries between art, product design, interiors, and imagination.

In this conversation with x , we explore creativity, craftsmanship, the future of design, and the thinking behind building worlds that feel both extraordinary and deeply human.


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09/06/2026

3daysofdesign returns for its 14th edition this year under the theme ‘Make This Moment Matter’, calling for a collective recalibration from ‘more’ to ‘meaningful’.

From material-led investigations to ritual, participation and sensory encounters, this year’s showcases explore how objects come into being, how materials communicate, how rituals structure daily life and how contemporary design circulates through systems of exchange, participation and care.

STIR selects some of the most relevant exhibitions and installations that embody the spirit of making, presence and material attention.

The annual design festival takes place from June 10–12, 2026, across Copenhagen, Denmark.

Read more: Link in bio
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Images: Courtesy of Lokal gallery, Maya Matsuura, Micheal Levin, BIRDMIND, Material Matters, On Display, 3daysofdesign, AHEC, Peter Vinther, Greg Lynn, SO-IL, Marcin Rusak, Bread and Butter, MÆRK, Maison Arpelli, Ricardo-Graça, SELL OUT, Bruno Pauli Caldas, Frederik Buchmann, Guillaume Gindrat, Massimo Scheidegger, Vipp, Mesura, Armin Tehrani, Ukurant
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08/06/2026

In conversation with STIR, Gabriela Carrillo shares insights on the BRICK AWARD 26 jury and the pertinence of materiality as a design criterion.

“I truly believe that bricks and ceramics are among the best materials to build with,” says the Mexican architect and co-founder of Colectivo C733, reflecting on brick’s adaptability, intelligence and continued relevance in contemporary architecture.

Ahead of the BRICK AWARD 26 ceremony and symposium, Carrillo, through the conversation, posits materiality in architecture as intrinsic to design through the lens of embodied intelligence.

STIR is a Strategic Media Partner for BRICK AWARD 26.

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Images: Courtesy of
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Óscar Caballero
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Frame & Work
Alex Verhalle
José Hevia
China Academy of Art
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STIRfri : Volume 13, Issue 9 CASSANDRA The words that make up worlds matter. Maybe no mythic figure understands this bet...
07/06/2026

STIRfri : Volume 13, Issue 9

CASSANDRA

The words that make up worlds matter. Maybe no mythic figure understands this better than Cassandra, the prophetess cursed never to be heard. To have absolute knowledge and be helpless to change the course of things. We are inundated today with news of unceasing destruction—whose voices are screaming, mutely?

Nalini Malani’s collateral show at the Venice Biennale draws parallels between the present’s horrific realities and the undermining of female and other agencies. We can scream and scream, but to not be regarded is the burden those in the margins bear.

Art is never neutral, so why are we appalled if it offers us a mirror of our mutated reality, our review of the Biennale questions?

The review of Nat Pyper’s ‘A Q***r Year of Love Letters’, a volume of q***r typography, perhaps makes the claim of words mattering most tangible. As Pyper notes in the book, the shape words take can become their own form of resistance. It can allow us to forge kinships across time and space.

It matters whose voices we listen to. It matters who can shape our shared futures.

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Kurulu Bay, designed by A00 Architecture, is a 14-key nature retreat in Sri Lanka shaped by topography, climate and an u...
06/06/2026

Kurulu Bay, designed by A00 Architecture, is a 14-key nature retreat in Sri Lanka shaped by topography, climate and an unmistakable reverence for nature.

The resort features tree houses, cottage suites and garden suites, each positioned in response to the terrain, with architecture that consciously maintains restraint to blur the interior–exterior threshold. Along the edge of Koggala Lake, architecture sits unassuming, allowing the structure to retreat into nature.

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Images: Sebastian Posingis
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Kurulu Bay
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05/06/2026

London’s Barbican Centre unveils speculative architect and filmmaker Liam Young’s solo exhibition, In Other Worlds. Positioning his fictions as imminent worlds rather than distant dreams and fears, the exhibition materialises elements from the films, extending his work into the physical space.

The immersive exhibition poses science fiction as a shared cultural infrastructure, where visitors can situate the very relationship it has with the planet.

He makes a call for a ‘Planetary Punk’ where “humanity grapples with the terrible beauty of its own making.” These imagined futures become rehearsals, testing new ways of living and responding to crises.

Read more: Link in bio
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Images: Courtesy of Barbican Immersive; Thomas Adank
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05/06/2026


Absolut Creative Commune returns for its fourth edition, with six artists stepping forward to carry the Born Colourless mission into new creative territory.

Curated by SPRYK, this year’s roster celebrates the power of diverse artistic expression—spanning hand-drawn ballpoint pen illustrations, 3D digital sculptures, traditional animation, geometric visual design, narrative-driven graphic art and cinematic CGI motion design. Representing different cities across India and fundamentally different ways of seeing and creating, the artists show how creativity becomes boundless when diverse perspectives converge.
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05/06/2026

Presenting the next voice from ‘The Milan Edit’, a series of exclusive design exchanges by  x : in conversation with .

A dialogue on memory, materiality, architecture as an act of care, and the responsibility of designing for future generations. A conversation that reminds us that the spaces we build are shaped as much by human stories as they are by form.

‘The Milan Edit’: Design conversations that stay with you long after Milan Design Week ends. 

Head to the link in bio for the complete conversation.
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03/06/2026

LANZA Atelier’s Serpentine Pavilion 2026, titled ‘a serpentine’, is conceived as a sinuous, permeable structure pivoting on English masonry and garden traditions. The Mexico-based studio founded by Isabel Abascal and Alessandro Arienzo commemorates the 25-year legacy of the commission by evoking the idea of paradise as a ‘walled garden’, beckoning centuries-old masonry techniques topped by a dappling, translucent roof.

“We would like visitors to relate to the idea that we all dwell and are all somehow connected to architecture, and therefore we can all reflect on what kind of architecture we need amidst the world’s ecological crisis to foreground gathering and collective experience,” the architects tell STIR.

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Images: Courtesy of Serpentine; LANZA atelier, Iwan Baan
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02/06/2026

Experimental designer Tadeas Podracky talks to STIR about honing material craft by blending intuition, manual tools and digital workflows with folklore to create objects that are ‘grown, not made’.

“I am not interested in folklore as nostalgia,” Podracky tells STIR, “I see it more as a living structure that constantly mutates through contact with contemporary materials, technologies and ways of living.”

Reflecting on his practice, Podracky discusses how his tactile explorations with wood are evolving into layered conceptual thinking and defining new directions for his explorations.

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Images: Eva Rybarova, Tomas Brabec, Igor Zacharov, Vikepe Yhokha, Courtesy of Lipp Zahnschirm, Vaclav Jirasek
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