COMFORTABLE CHAOS. Home is alive, life creates mess, both mental and physical. What makes a house a home? Does incompleteness bring peace of mind or does it irritate? There are many kinds of mess. In the future we need new kinds of handyman to solve the technical...
INHOUSE LOVE. There are many kinds of love. Love lives in us, humans. How does a home where love lives look like? Are passion and sexuality visible in our homes? What is private and what is public? With increasing life expectancies, people stay sexually active...
DESIGN ART OR BOTH? Design is brought up with art. The boundaries between design, industries and work become more blurred. Experience economy and personality economy are here already. Does the meaning of beauty and aesthetics grow? Craft skills rule and products that...
A while ago, we visited Habitare, the leading event for furniture, interior and design in Finland. We were delighted to see high quality showcases from many of the brands and designers, smart furnitures, authentic materials, rich colours, a lot of surface structures,...
In our ‘Emotional Age’ trendbriefing in 2012 we pointed out design movement, where alternative methods of production and ingenious alternative energy sources are used for local microscale manufacturing. An inspiring example of this is Merel...
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