Leonardo Bonanni

busting out

:: “ The hundreds of millions of electronics thrown out each year are depleting precious resources and creating vast deposits of toxic materials, most of which are difficult or impossible to isolate almost by design. Active Disassembly is a promising technique for recycling electronics that relies on sh ...” hyperexperience | May 5

homeless polluters

:: “ Despite the plethora of personal footprint calculators out there, I have always had the nagging feeling that personal choices make almost no difference on the environment - that the shift of responsibility for environmental woes to individuals is a corporate strategy meant to reduce pressure on pro ...” hyperexperience | May 2

open source threads

:: “ We’ve seen do-it-yourself kits for wearable technology; now Studio 5050 has released the first open-source modular wearable technology collection, a series of hardware components that can be used to create computational clothes such as the temperature sweater which contains a discrete luminou ...” hyperexperience | May 1

mesh and re-mesh

:: “ A the Lexus installation at the Salone del Mobile there was an interesting installation about generation of mesh structures which provided hints for their eventual re-generation and re-use. The chair above was manufactured using a 3D printer from 2kg of fused Nylon powder. As part of the exhibition ...” hyperexperience | Apr 30

local lamp

:: “ When is the last time you worried whether your furniture was locally produced? I saw this tag on a lamp at the Milan furniture fair, where the whole world comes to find which furniture to import. My favorite part about it is that the lamp was not only made in Italy; it was conceived there. Which me ...” hyperexperience | Apr 24

Fashion Metamorphosis

:: “ Last week Amanda Parkes and I held a workshop at with textile designers at NABA in Milano entitled “Fashion Metamorphosis” to investigate the potential for transformative fashion to address social and physical problems. We began with a presentation of the latest materials and techniques ...” leonardo bonanni | Apr 23

fibrous furnishings

:: “ Aside from the rare up-cycled or open design project at this past week’s Salone del Mobile in Milan, there were very few radically new concepts and a lot of kinda-pretty-but-useless stuff. Very few designers targeted the environment in radical new ways, and almost none contributed significant ...” hyperexperience | Apr 22

media wallet

:: “ Another find from Last week’s Designersblock: these wallets made from old cassettes split in half, gutted and joined with a zipper (by Marcella Foschi). She also authored these brilliant chandeliers made from tank tops: ...” hyperexperience | Apr 22

creative commons kiosk

:: “ Last week at the Fuori Salone the most memorable event was designersblock: held at a dilapidated public pool in Milan’s Tortona neighborhood, it featured booths by designers and collectives organized under the London-based design collaborative. One of the exhibitors was KithKin’s &ldquo ...” hyperexperience | Apr 21