Tracing the evolution of letterforms from ancient symbols to contemporary typography

In a labyrinth of ones and zeros, Refik Anadol found a paintbrush that could render the invisible. And asked: “What if buildings could hallucinate?”

Digital interfaces are entering an era of unprecedented complexity; and that’s a feature, not a bug

The enigmatic human knack for creativity is preserved through ethical choices and retaining control over our own destiny

The curator of the 59th Venice Biennale discusses the impressive conversion of the time-honored event into an overarching transhistorical show. By forging new links between past and present, it addresses contemporary issues and reflects our dreams, desires, and visions

How to navigate the tension between structured categorization and nuanced understanding in our label-centric world

Surprisingly little of our brain has to do with logic, whether we make baffling or brilliant decisions. But we can learn to govern it better

As everything seemingly tends to become an event we desperately want to take part in, a new kind of desire arises

Exploring the evolution of human desires: survival, imagination, and contemporary dilemmas

Few things give off more immediate vibes on who we are than the things we wear, and shoes are often the item our eyes fly off to first. What goes on behind their creation?

Defying human-centric conventions: a maritime odyssey into trans-corporeality

The chronicle of human intelligence is but a journey through the history of what we know — and, more importantly, how we know it

Nearing the age of the singularity, what do we know about human intelligence?

How today’s crises of identity, overstimulation, disenchantment, and anxieties have annihilated the feeling of boredom, complicating our relationship to contemporary desire

In a time marked by uncertainty and a lost sense of future, the search for re-enchantment offers hope and transformative potential

Between the West and the East, the body and the stars, power and liberation: an epic voyage spanning centuries, exploring the myriad paradoxes within the concept of desire.

Without someone to look at us, we have no identity. And to look is, after all, to begin to desire.

Quite often, important moments in history and in our lives happen and we, as humans, remain full of doubts: how did things go this way? Why? Could I control it?

A conversation about free will and moral responsability with Eddy Nahmias, Professor and Chair of the Philosophy Department at Georgia State University. 

We become what we are through voice — our own, but also that of others. And silence sets the stage where the theatrical, vocal performance of life comes to light

Sometimes identity is “negative,” in that it is defined by what someone (or something) is not. And that can be a powerful catalyst for the opening of harmful doors

From “Blade Runner” to “Memento.” Seven movies that explore the representation of human identity

We often see ourselves in others, a deeply ingrained lesson in our self-perception. However, what do we discover when we move away from this perspective?

Silicon Valley companies took over amid concerns about government intervention in the digital sphere, but our digital future should prioritize independence from them

Music has been everywhere since the dawn of time, but not everyone listens to it. Yet, it has shaped us for the longest time in many ways

A tribute to MAIZE magazine’s late editor Matteo Scanni

Reality is complex, so much so that there’s an entire institution devoted to studying this issue.

The world is increasingly more complex, and so are its challenges, writes Christian Schneider. But strategic design can be an immensely helpful tool to navigate these uncharted waters

Artist Anicka Yi  takes us through her exploration—a realm with olfaction, microbial and artificial intelligence as its primary ingredients.

The way the internet has evolved over the years does not exactly reflect its roots.

Don Luca Peyron, a former lawyer, was appointed by the Vatican to establish a new positioning for the Catholic Church on the web

The sense of paralysis that strangles us stems from the impossibility of deciding in certain situations. But decision is not the only way to be effective.

The artworks by Heather Dewey-Hagborg often lack legal precedent, because the use of personal data in the age of surveillance does too

Biblical episodes often occurred when water was around. An element capable of nourishing but also of destroying.

On the psychology of military incompetence

Love the stranger within us and the strangers with whom we wander.

The Museum of Failure, a collection of commercial mistakes.

The disastrously epic story of Anvil

Celebrating the beauty of catastrophe through poetic lyrics. 

A world without losers did exist and not that long ago.

A brief history of the wonders of binary encoding of culture. 

A reflection on how our relationship with sound is changing.

As we become drenched in a deluge of information, we may be losing our ability to appreciate the nuances of epic music.

Taking into account the endorsement level of transformative cultural shifts in a targeted audience—whether conscious or not—can help us to design solutions that have a higher chance of being more resilient and react better to sudden changes and shocks.

Humanity should be the purpose of data and machines at work, but, today, that's not quite the case.

In the digital sphere, waste products are not poured into the environment around us but end up stored in giant server towns.

Investigating social fields impacted by the internet, through art, as technology changes how we perceive the world.

From an avant-garde noise album to a non-school, eight ideas to think beyond the limits of our realities.

Design, above all else, is the interpreter of a society, giving voice to its needs and values.

Music provides an escape from the darkness of our lives, giving us the possibility to transcend time.

Reshaping what we depict, and how, through the Anthropocene.

Have we launched into a new era of design where people can really help rather than just making an aesthetically-superior product?

Science is capable of leading humankind to a new condition. This faith may be techno-utopian thinkers' only common attribute.

How can we manage a World Wide Web that is inherently separate from reality, where our usual rules do not apply?

Sujith Ravindran is the founder of The BEING at Full Potential movement, he sees the lockdown as the perfect “being” time.

Jeffrey Ernstoff, creative director at TWIN Global, explains how improvisation separates us from other species.

A product design expert and professor reflects on how our reaction to Covid-19 might influence future design approaches.

An artist, hacktivist, and theorist explores an interconnected network, which exists not only in cyberspace, but also among humans.

What will life after Covid-19 look like? Contemplations about 'a new species of humans,' which might be about to appear in the world.

An art historian and poet invites us to reflect on how our perceptions challenge our reality as we hold on to what grounds us.

A New York-based jazz pianist, composer, and hip hop dancer, shares his thoughts and new music catalyzed by the chaos of Covid-19.

A philosopher best known for his theory on antispecism explains how humanity has reached a "definitive collapse point."

Is time a genuine phenomenon,  or is it just a metaphor?

Diagnosed with savant syndrome, this American artist has a super-calculator power, which drives him to obsessively compute.

What does time look like? Daniel Rosenberg and Anthony Grafton curated the first visual history of the timeline.

The artist who has been compared to Duke Ellington and Maurice Ravel shares views on the spatio-temporality of composing music.

Utopia has been part of the Western philosophical conversation on matters political from day one, as a style of thinking.

Since the beginning of the Industrial Age, some people have decided that they were better off away from humankind and its issues.

Defining Anthropocene as a geological era defines a feature of "modern" humans. It's time to face the facts.

Critical design leverages fiction and speculative design to challenge our theories and preconceptions about everyday objects.

The artist has no spite for their audience, so why is the audience today showing such hatred for itself?

Can we truly understand machines if they are built on falsehoods and fallacies?

The ongoing technology transformations pose crucial ethical questions concerning our environment, societies, and human flourishing.

If you want to give users what they want, you have to understand it first. And asking them might not be enough.

Tech companies have been granted access to an unlimited amount of data, an issue that really entangles ethics when it comes to Healthcare.

A useful method for creative and practical problem-solving that finds its roots in a plethora of subjects, from architecture to business.

Net neutrality is the principle that all data is equal and must be treated so accordingly by Internet Service Providers

The calculus gave us a new way to look at the world, and we emerged as a different species.