A few months ago we presented the School of Phyto-centered Design, the 2023 summer program curated by d-o-t-s - Laura Drouet and Olivier Lacrouts - for the Design Campus at Pillnitz Palace and Park in Dresden, Germany. From 22 September at Vienna Design Week it will be possible to see Room for Change, an installation which, in…
We have often talked about the problems of cities, from the need for a more sustainable vision to urban heat islands, and for some years now solutions have been proposed based on the integration of greenery directly into the architectural structure of buildings: from simple pots that become part of the facade to real green…
Designed by RO_AR Szymon Rozwałka architects, the new family house in Hlubocepy is located on the border between two different realities: the urban and the natural one. The first surrounds the site on the south and east side and presents a chaotic and random development, the second instead is connected to the property thanks to…
Podere 101 is a young project founded in 2020 by the brothers Tommaso and Caterina Lenzi, respectively 20 and 24 years old, in the Bolognese countryside. The project was born from the desire to do something concrete to fight climate change, placing sustainability and respect for nature at the center of every action.
The drought…
Founded by Niklas Dahlström and Anders Solvarm, Naturvillan is the Swedish company that creates homes that aim for minimal environmental footprint, ecological materials, protective climate shells, automatic irrigation and ecocycle-systems giving back nutrients from wastewater to the in-house garden plants. The company offers 4 different types of homes: Maxi, Midi, Mini, and the one on sale,…
We are in a historical period in which it has become vital to start again to imagine not only other possible worlds, but above all new systems to survive in the only world we know. VISIONI Italian Ecoway of Lyfe is a Made in Italy project of the Italian Cultural Institute of Melbourne that develops…
As in many other developing countries, Vietnam's urbanization is happening rapidly and it's driving people away from nature. The buildings are gradually concreting and leaving bad effects on the living environment. With Bonte Cafe, Yên Architecture proposes a project that aims to reconnect man with nature.
Completed in 2021, with an area of approximately 180sqm,…
Kenneth Cobonpue is a Filipino (Cebu) industrial designer with an international background. His path began in 1987 at the Pratt Institute's Industrial Design course. During his studies he worked as an apprentice in a leather and wood workshop near Florence, and then continued studying Marketing and Furniture Production at the Export-Akademie Baden-Württemberg in Reutlingen, Germany.…
Bionic Leaf 2.0 is a research work published in 2016 by Daniel Nocera and Pamela Silver, Harvard University. It isn't directly related to the Design sector, but it has more to do with the multidisciplinary nature of Design Thinking. Real sustainability is one of WeVux's favorite topics but also the search for solutions to lower…
What if architecture and urban spaces could react and communicate with the climate changes to which they are subjected? We can have an interesting answer to this question if we redefine the connection between water and the city. As citizens, we are used to infrastructure hidden from our eyes, for example, underground tanks, and water…