OpenStructures is featured in U-JOINTS, an extensive compendium on connections. U-JOINTS is a taxonomy of connections that looks at human history through its details and invites to see design and architecture in new ways. The book is the result of a four-year long research project and exhibition series and features a collection of possibilities, of existing projects and potential new ideas. Just as OpenStructures, U-joints is in its conception open source: it aims to open up new dialogues, create new spaces and, ultimately, spark curiosity about the details of our man-made world.

Find the interview with Anniina Koivu on pages 888–894!

Edited by Andrea Caputo and Anniina Koivu

for SYNC-SYNC Editions, Milano

Picture by Delfino Sisto Legnani

Joana Lazarova Interviewed Thomas Lommée and Christiane Högner, founders of OpenStructures, on #Post-Bauhaus, #Autonomous Design, #Sharing Economy and the #Role of Designer for Chinese ’Demo Magazine’, a biannual pan-design review journal.

Edited by Yi Xu, words by Joana Lazarova, photography by Julien Lanoo, translation by Alicia Lee

The Vitra Design Museum’s »Atlas of Furniture Design« is a new encyclopedic publication on 200 years of furniture design. OpenStructures is proud to be featured within this monumental work that examines themes ranging from the early days of industrialization to innovations of the digital era, which play an increasingly important role in furniture design today. Based on more than twenty years of research and with more than 1,000 pages, the »Atlas« represents the most comprehensive book to ever shed light on this subject.

Edited by Mateo Kries & Jochen Eisenbrand for Vitra Design Museum. Photo credits: Kobi Benezri Studio

Low-tech Magazine underscores the potential of past and often forgotten technologies and how they can inform sustainable energy practices. Sometimes, past technologies can be copied without any changes. More often, interesting possibilities arise when older technology is combined with new knowledge and new materials, or when past concepts and traditional knowledge are applied to modern technology. Inspiration is also to be found in the so-called “developing” world, where resource constraints often lead to inventive, low-tech solutions. Contains 159 images in black & white. On of the most insightful articles on the OpenStructures project, by the hand of Low-Tech magazine initiator Kris Dedecker, can be found back in this publication.

Read the article here and here.

Publication available here.

Home Futures: Living in Yesterday’s Tomorrow

The ‘home of the future’ has long intrigued designers and popular culture alike. Whether it was the dream of the fully mechanised home or the notion that technology might liberate us from home altogether, the domestic realm was a site of endless invention and speculation. But what happened to those visions? Are today’s smart homes the future that architects and designers once predicted, or has our idea of home proved resistant to real change?

Alongside the work of leading voices in the field, such as Atelier Van Lieshout , Dunne & Rab, Yona Friedman, Buckminster Fuller, Hans Hollein, Haus-Rucker-Co, Mark Leckey, Enzo Mari, Gaetano Pesce, Ettore Sottsass, Superstudio or Andrea Zittel, OpenStructures is featured within the exhibitions’ catalogue and has contributed an original essay about the role of open connectors.

Published by The Design Museum London

Publication available here.

Future-kind: Design by and for the People 

OpenStructures has been featured in Futurekind: Design by and for the People, a compendium of over sixty design projects enabled by new technologies that reveal how innovative, socially and environmentally conscious designs allow us to change the world for the better.

Published by Thames & Hudson in May 2019 © image by Thames & Hudson

Publication is available here

Facing Value - Radical Perspectives From The ArtsEditors: Maaike Lauwaert & Francien Van Westrenen

The publication 'Facing Value. Radical perspectives from the arts' aims to rethink the scope and language of the current value system. It presents nine alternatives to regain personal power, find inspiration, shape a better environment, share energy and creativity, and build on a vital and just society. With an anthology of texts by a variety of contributors, the authors propose to place values such as hesitation, care, and giving at centre stage, in order to reclaim value from the logic of capital. Next to the architecture of Yona Friedman, John Habraken and Elemental, OpenStructures have been featured as an example how to welcome and invite participation.

Available at Valiz Publishers © Valiz Publishers & Stroom Den Haag

Publication available here.