This issue of the journal Disegno is filled with a selection of essays, photography and interviews, drawn from all around the world. Exploring new projects, current affairs and the discipline’s various sociopolitical entanglements, these stories show why design matter to the world at large.

Oli Stratford and Ramak Fazel explore Emeco House, a new space developed inside a former sewing workshop in Venice, Los Angeles, by the architect David Saik, which reveals the many virtues of building slow.
Mitzi Okou and Sade Fasanya delve into Before Yesterday We Could Fly, a new Afrofuturist period room at the Met, as part of a roundtable featuring designers Hannah Beachler, Ini Archibong and Jomo Tariku, as well as curators Sarah E. Lawrence and Abraham Thomas.
India Block and Jim Stephenson make the trip out to East Quay, a community space in Watchet, southwest England that is designed to revitalise the town’s postindustrial fortunes.
Aki Ishida and Noritaka Minami stay over in the Nakagin Capsule Tower, Tokyo’s landmark work of metabolism architecture that has reached physical and conceptual obsolescence at the same time.
Oli Stratford and Fabian Frinzel get to know Plusminus, a new lighting system from Stefan Diez for Vibia that replaces concealed wires with a conductive textile ribbon.
The pioneering feminist architecture collective Matrix meet with curator Viviane Stappmann to discuss their work in creating intersectional, community-focused spaces in 1980s London.
Rupal Rathore and Philippe Calia chart the history and present of Mumabi’s historic chawls, a housing typology now scheduled to be razed as part of one of the biggest redevelopment projects in Asia.
And architects Space Popular meet with philosopher David Chalmers to discuss how we can conceptualise and design for virtual spaces.

This issue of the journal Disegno is filled with a selection of essays, photography and interviews, drawn from all around the world. Exploring new projects, current affairs and the discipline’s various sociopolitical entanglements, these stories show why design matter to the world at large.

Oli Stratford and Ramak Fazel explore Emeco House, a new space developed inside a former sewing workshop in Venice, Los Angeles, by the architect David Saik, which reveals the many virtues of building slow.
Mitzi Okou and Sade Fasanya delve into Before Yesterday We Could Fly, a new Afrofuturist period room at the Met, as part of a roundtable featuring designers Hannah Beachler, Ini Archibong and Jomo Tariku, as well as curators Sarah E. Lawrence and Abraham Thomas.
India Block and Jim Stephenson make the trip out to East Quay, a community space in Watchet, southwest England that is designed to revitalise the town’s postindustrial fortunes.
Aki Ishida and Noritaka Minami stay over in the Nakagin Capsule Tower, Tokyo’s landmark work of metabolism architecture that has reached physical and conceptual obsolescence at the same time.
Oli Stratford and Fabian Frinzel get to know Plusminus, a new lighting system from Stefan Diez for Vibia that replaces concealed wires with a conductive textile ribbon.
The pioneering feminist architecture collective Matrix meet with curator Viviane Stappmann to discuss their work in creating intersectional, community-focused spaces in 1980s London.
Rupal Rathore and Philippe Calia chart the history and present of Mumabi’s historic chawls, a housing typology now scheduled to be razed as part of one of the biggest redevelopment projects in Asia.
And architects Space Popular meet with philosopher David Chalmers to discuss how we can conceptualise and design for virtual spaces.