Group items tagged

Icon of the Year 2014, Lighting designer Vibhor Sogani is an artist at heart. IAnD delves into a little into his personal life to understand his choices and ideologies. Click here to read more…

The NAACP has just passed a historic resolution demanding an end to the War on Drugs.  The resolution comes as young Black male unemployment hovers near 50 percent and the wealth gap's become a veritable gulf. So why is the forty-year-old "War on Drugs" public enemy number one for the nation's oldest civil rights organization? Well here's why:  it's not extraneous - it's central: the war on drugs is the engine of 21st century discrimination - an engine that has brought Jim Crow into the age of Barack Obama.     Author Michelle Alexander lays out the statistics -- and the stories --  of 21st Century Jim Crow in her ought-to-blow-your-socks off book: "The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in an Age of Colorblindness." I had a chance to sit down with Alexander earlier this summer. We'll be posting the full interview in two parts.     "We have managed decades after the civil rights movement to create something like a caste system in the United States," says Alexander in part one here  "In major urban areas, the majority of African American men are either behind bars, under correctional control or saddled with criminal record and once branded as criminal or a felon, they're trapped for life in 2nd class status."     It's not just about people having a hard time getting ahead and climbing the ladder of success. It's about a rigged system. Sound familiar?  Like the Pew Research Center report on household wealth and the Great Recession -- the NAACP resolution story was a one-day news-blip - despite the fact that it pierces the by-your-bootstraps myth that is at the heart of - you pick it - the deficit, the stimulus, the tax code - every contemporary US economic debate.     White America just maybe ought to pay attention. With more and more Americans falling out of jobs and into debt, criminal records are a whole lot easier to come by than life-sustaining employment.  Contrary to the conventional media version, the "Drug War" story is not a people with problems

Conceptualized and designed by architect and designer, Emmanuelle Moureaux, the Shinjuen Nursing Home near Tokyo, has been turned into a warm and friendly centre that not only welcomes the ailing into a positive ambience, but also nurtures feelings of joy and wellbeing. Read here and leave us your views...

Imagine a #creative and #surreal track that was born out of the need to reactivate a sparsely used area in a #shoppingmall. Located in #Shanghai, #China, #100architects have converted a 1,200 sq. m. indoor space into a family-oriented entertaining space. Want to know how? Read on…

A simple material palette and a dose of thoughtful design transform a basement into a spa and spinning studio. Check it out here and leave us your views…

Design has a new syllabus: Take a glimpse into the lives of 3 Indian students from Istituto Marangoni, Milan

The Next Level expansion project of the ARoS Aarhus Art Museum in Denmark is collaboration between architects SHL and renowned American artist, James Turrell; it proposes to define a new experiential art-architecture idiom. Check out the recently revealed design and concept and leave us your views...

With the third edition of Kochi-Muziris Biennale opening its intriguing thematic doors on December 12, 2016, IAnD gives you a peek into what you absolutely MUST NOT miss! Check it out here!

Endorsng his signature style of weaving unexpected materials into a 'wow' fabric, Ar. Sumessh Menon carves out another new fine dine interior in Mumbai, India

A lot goes into the makeup of a seemingly simple process or product. Ankon Mitra enlightens us about material behaviour and translation with his latest origami workshop with NIFT. Check it out...

When the synergies of a designer and a client turn into a symphony, a home is born. Check out this beautifully warm home by GESAMT Design and leave us your views…

Many a time art becomes the via media to evoke responsiveness in the numbed disposition called mankind! Check out artist Maxwell Rushton's installation that put the thoughts back into you cap!!

Rabih Geha Architects' Villa Badaro Restaurant transports you from present-day contemporary into the serene 20th century days