The resourceful city: Taking a circular approach to resources
Taking a look at Lansink’s waste hierarchy and the circular economy to challenge the 2,000-year-old method of using landfills for waste disposal.
Daniel Dewar and Grégory Gicquel Cultivate Connections Between Sculpture, Nature, and Craft
The term “spoke” has traditionally referred to a piece of split log, like those used as supports in a wagon wheel. Traditional basket-making techniques draw on that same concept by weaving flexible material through a stronger framework. For French artistic duo Daniel Dewar and Grégory Gicquel, notions of interlaced strands, patterns, ecosystems, and vessels shape their solo exhibition, The Weaver and the Spoke, at Antenna Space in Shanghai. More
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Althea Crome’s Miniature Sweaters Test the Limits of Traditional Knitting
Have you ever sent a knit sweater through a dryer cycle and returned to find it a fraction of the size it once was? Well, think even smaller. Althea Crome’s incredibly detailed miniature sweaters didn’t shrink in a dryer but were instead created stitch by stitch with scrupulous dexterity over hundreds of hours.
The Indiana-based fiber artist began knitting in college and refined her skills by frequenting knitting shops. Crome was eager to learn new methods, and like many who are part of knitting communities, the artist was happily welcomed with advice, knowledge, and guidance. More
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Full range of electric VW campervans incoming, says CEO
VW’s head of commercial vehicles has revealed plans for a line-up of EV California campervans are already in motion
