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12/09/2026

Popcorny Unicorny is the world of Seoul-based furniture designer Hanee Shin, who translates Korean folklore into ‘horrifyingly delightful’ furniture and products.

In conversation with STIR, she reveals how her seemingly eerie creations harness the comforting power of beliefs in times of grief and uncertainty.

“Rather than seeing these stories as outdated folklore, I am interested in how they can still influence our psychology today.” — Hanee Shin

Read more: https://sl1nk.com/vvxyswz
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Images: Courtesy of Popcorny Unicorny
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STIRfri: Volume 14, Issue 11FRACTUREThe world is breaking apart, one rushed decision, one prompt, one image at a time. A...
11/09/2026

STIRfri: Volume 14, Issue 11

FRACTURE

The world is breaking apart, one rushed decision, one prompt, one image at a time. A noisy network of wounds and carefully calibrated illusions. Cracked lines, gold seams. Fractures no longer allude to the moment when something breaks. They are a condition of living with the breaks—our collective hubris.

This week’s STIRfri asks what happens when the structures we rely on—cultural, social and technological—begin to splinter. Stefano Gualeni’s book ‘What We Owe the Dead’ examines our obligations to those who came before us and how AI is rupturing the archives through which we understand the past.

The exhibition ‘Sediments of Becoming’ arrives at a tipping moment when questions of whose culture matters and who gets to tell their own story have never felt more urgent. The practice of PK_iNCEPTiON unravels the idea of ‘through’ spaces that respond to the deep crevices in the educational architecture of rural India.

A tender inquiry thus emerges. It asks: Does the light still find its way through the cracks? Or do we mistake the fracture for the architecture itself?
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Read more: https://www.stirworld.com/stirfri-vol-14-issue-11
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Text by Zohra Khan

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The winners of the 2026 London Design Medals have been announced, celebrating both established and emerging creatives de...
10/09/2026

The winners of the 2026 London Design Medals have been announced, celebrating both established and emerging creatives demonstrating the transformative power of design, with four London Design Medals awarded:

London Design Medal: Jonathan Anderson
Lifetime Achievement Medal: Sir Christopher Frayling
Design Innovation Medal: Anab Jain
Emerging Design Medal: Solveiga Pakštaitė

From Jonathan Anderson’s work blending high fashion, art and craft, to Sir Christopher Frayling’s lifelong dedication to design education and cultural history, Anab Jain’s pioneering work in speculative futures, and Solveiga Pakštaitė’s solutions for intuitive, inclusive and considered design, each medal recipient, as LDF Director and Co-founder Ben Evans notes, exemplifies how creative innovation shapes our culture, industry and shared future.

Read more: https://www.stirworld.com/see-news-2026-london-design-medal-winners-inspire-design-beyond-boundaries
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Images:
Image 2: David Simons
Image 3, 4: Courtesy of London Design Festival
Image 5: Ben Broomfield
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London Design Festival Jonathan Anderson Arts University Bournemouth | AUB Lancaster University Royal College of Art Anab Jain SUPERFLUX Design Investigations Solveiga Pakštaitė Bump by Mimica Bloomberg Philanthropies Ben Broomfield
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In partnership with London Design Festival, STIR x ROCA London Gallery invite you to join us for The Architecture of Bel...
09/09/2026

In partnership with London Design Festival, STIR x ROCA London Gallery invite you to join us for The Architecture of Belonging: Unbuilt.

4 practitioners. 4 scales. 4 dispatches from the city built on belonging, something we were always owed — political, structural, spatial, embodied.

Elsie Owusu OBE RA — The City We Were Owed (political)
Torange Khonsari — The Ground Beneath Belonging (structural)
JJ Cliff — The Smallest Acts of Welcome (spatial)
Lionheart — The Body That Belongs (embodied)

Followed by an open conversation anchored by Samta Nadeem, Curatorial Director, STIR.

Wednesday, 16 September 2026
6:00pm arrival for a 6:30pm start
ROCA London Gallery, SW6 2PY
Nearest Station: Imperial Wharf

Book your seat: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-architecture-of-belonging-unbuilt-tickets-1998890362884

09/09/2026


Design Democracy returns to Hyderabad for its fourth edition from September 18–20, bringing together 200+ design brands and 150+ speakers under the banner ‘Design For The People. Powered By The Community.’

Spread across four halls, With five curated exhibitions and a programme centred on dialogue, collaboration and participation, this year’s edition looks at the intersections shaping India’s evolving design landscape.
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Read more: https://l1nq.com/vbjvehc
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Images: Courtesy of Design Democracy, Hands & Minds, Divyendu Anand, Sansaar – D’Decor, Artisans Chennai, Sangeeta Seth Home, Elements by Nirvania
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Design Democracy Pallika Sreewastav shailjapatwari Arjun Rathi Ankon Mitra ABM Monika Choudhary | Architecture & Design Sarah Choudhary Huzefa Rangwala Jasem Pirani Supraja Rao MuseLAB Habitat Architects | Architecture & Interior Design Sakshi Gallery Anish Gawande Sonali Bhagwati Ankur Khosla Ekta Parekh Biju Kuriakose Iram Sultan Elements by Nirvania Hands and Minds Divyendu Anand SANSAAR | A D’DECOR BRAND Artisans Chennai SANGEETA SETH HOME
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08/09/2026

Table Manners, curated by Georgia Smedley of Object Massive, asks why cutlery design has stayed largely unchanged and what results emerge when we rethink its conventions.

Eleven contemporary designers and artists were asked to craft one-off cutlery sets distilled through their own practices and creative ethos.

The exhibition presents a provocation to refuse the settled categories of what design is for and who it serves.

Read more: https://sl1nk.com/wwjh6o8
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Images: Georgia Smedley and Matthew McQuiggan
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The Bangladesh Chancery Complex and Ambassador’s Residence by Dhaka-based SHATTOTO balances Bhutanese traditional detail...
06/09/2026

The Bangladesh Chancery Complex and Ambassador’s Residence by Dhaka-based SHATTOTO balances Bhutanese traditional details with a distinctly Bangla character.

The strikingly monolithic complex is conceived as three low-rise structures composed around a central water body, lending the overall complex a somewhat relaxed, perhaps even informal outlook.

Treating the central water body as a symbolic representation of the Bay of Bengal, the blocks are arranged to frame a visitor’s sight from the water to the mountains.
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Read more: https://sl1nk.com/4ya0aek
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Images: ©️ Prantography
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Prantography SHATOTTO prof. Rafiq Azam
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