•make your fridays matter with a well-read weekend
by Jincy Iype Jun 08, 2026
From material-led investigations to ritual, participation and sensory encounters, STIR picks showcases that embody 3daysofdesign 2026's call to make this moment matter.
by Pranjal Maheshwari Jun 06, 2026
The furniture fair in New York City engaged its global audience with expanded programming and critical conversations reinforcing the position of design as a connective force.
by Bansari Paghdar Jun 03, 2026
At the New Taipei City Art Museum, spiders and geopolitics collide in a dense field of unresolved relationships through installations, sound and participation.
by Sunena V Maju May 30, 2026
From IKONstudio's Halston revival to USM's Food Form Function, NYCxDESIGN 2026 asked the questions that mattered most: Does design still matter, and will any of it last?
by Srishti Ojha May 29, 2026
The multimedia artist’s two installations at the 61st Venice Biennale, conference of one’s self and khalil, ask audiences to imagine a self and world harmonious even in instability.
by Srishti Ojha May 20, 2026
The 2026 edition of the sā Ladakh Biennale, themed Signals from Another Star, will feature site-specific art that emerges from the communities, culture and ecology of Ladakh.
by Pranjal Maheshwari May 19, 2026
Returning to London for a landmark 15th edition, CDW adds new venues, brand interventions and material cultures to showcase the best of contemporary design from across Europe.
by Chahna Tank May 11, 2026
STIR speaks with exhibition director Natsumi Toyama about using soup as a lens for understanding the origins of food, clothing and shelter.
by Sunena V Maju Apr 16, 2026
From Moooi’s theatrical environments to Lina Ghotmeh’s site-specific intervention, these immersive installations shift focus from products to spatial, multisensory experience.
by Chahna Tank Apr 14, 2026
STIR speaks with Laura Vella, head of Superstudio Design, discussing this edition's expanded format, curatorial frameworks and key highlights across Milan.
by Bansari Paghdar Apr 07, 2026
5VIE Design District positions design as a subjective, highly personal encounter, where ceramics, textiles and spatial interventions provoke self-reflection.
by Srishti Ojha Apr 06, 2026
The ArtScience Museum’s exhibition juxtaposes historical artefacts with contemporary artworks to discover the beliefs, scientific and cultural practices that undergird our conception of the human body.
by Bansari Paghdar Apr 04, 2026
At Milan Design Week 2026, the 11th edition moves beyond spectacle to examine how design operates across systems of production, perception and lived experience.
by Almas Sadique Apr 03, 2026
The expansive Brera Design Week is set to host its 17th edition during Milan Design Week 2026 with dynamic designs and discourses amid the neighbourhood’s historic core.
by Almas Sadique Mar 28, 2026
The upcoming edition of the design fair urges creatives to decenter the image of the final design to focus on its materiality, process and craftsmanship.
by Jincy Iype Mar 25, 2026
From Salone del Mobile.Milano to Fuorisalone, Superstudio to Porta Venezia; STIR presents a comprehensive guide through Milan Design Week’s most compelling offerings this year.
by De Beers Feb 27, 2026
The immersive installation by De Beers, featuring artist Lakshmi Madhavan, framed natural diamonds through art, nature and human expression at India Art Fair 2026.
by Aarthi Mohan Jan 19, 2026
From neighbourhood-based projects to broader urban questions, this year’s design festival foregrounds how design engages identity, material and responsibility across Toronto.
by Chahna Tank Jan 05, 2026
As part of the Jaquar Pavilion Park, a constellation of human-scaled matchboxes by Anagram Architects translates Mumbai’s ‘average everydayness’ into a cinematic montage.
by Aarthi Mohan Dec 29, 2025
Conceived by Suchi Reddy for the Jaquar Pavilion Park, the pavilion, supported by Godrej properties, formulates the rice sieve as an architecture rooted in craft and sustainability.
by Bansari Paghdar Dec 08, 2025
The second edition of Journeying Across the Himalayas by the Royal Enfield Social Mission comprises an expanded showcase with immersive installations, talks and vibrant crafts.
by Mrinmayee Bhoot Dec 08, 2025
On view in India as a collaboration with the Australian institute, KNMA presents a showcase detailing the transcendental creation saga of Australia’s First Nation inhabitants.
by Aarthi Mohan Dec 06, 2025
From immersive installations to conversations on AI and future homes, the second edition of the design showcase hopes to offer a gaze that is unafraid of the unfamiliar.
by Chahna Tank Oct 15, 2025
Dutch ecological artist-designer and founder of Woven Studio speaks to STIR about the perceived impact of his work in an age of environmental crises and climate change.
by Mrinmayee Bhoot Oct 14, 2025
The inaugural edition of the festival in Denmark, curated by Josephine Michau, CEO, CAFx, seeks to explore how the discipline can move away from incessantly extractivist practices.
by Sunena V Maju Oct 09, 2025
Under the artistic direction of Florencia Rodriguez, the sixth edition of the biennial reexamines the role of architecture in turbulent times, as both medium and metaphor.
by Aarthi Mohan Oct 07, 2025
At Melbourne’s Incinerator Gallery, a travelling exhibition presents a series of immersive installations that reframe playgrounds as cultural spaces that belong to everyone.
by Mercedes Ezquiaga Sep 23, 2025
Curated by Bonaventure Soh Bejeng Ndikung, the Bienal in Brazil gathers 120 artists exploring migration, community and what it means to “be human”.
by Srishti Ojha Aug 21, 2025
Jameel Art Centre’s survey exhibition, The Peasant, the Scholar and the Engineer, charts the artist and researcher’s ecocentric approach to contemporary art.
by Bansari Paghdar Aug 20, 2025
Terms and Conditions, The Other Side of the Hill and other projects on thermal inequity and designing for discomfort earmark a provocative foray into the curator’s exhibition.
by Chahna Tank Aug 18, 2025
With four new installations, this year’s edition of the festival reimagines the garden as a space to interrogate how borders, both political and ecological, define the world we inhabit.
by Bansari Paghdar Aug 14, 2025
Jazia Hammoudi and Matthew Niederhauser tell STIR how the hybrid studio fosters creative agency, curates immersive exhibitions and shapes new media culture.
by Asmita Singh Aug 13, 2025
From seaweed pavilions to river-rights murals, the exhibition repositions design as relational, speculative and situated, looking beyond the human to more multivalent futures.
by Lee Daehyung Aug 08, 2025
The three contemporary artists counter digital acceleration with art that demands stillness and introspection.
by Anushka Sharma Jul 22, 2025
An immersive exhibition in Copenhagen unites Rick Owens’ monumental furniture with the curatorial vision of Lamy and Gustav, transforming space into ritual and art into experience.
by Louis Ho Jun 26, 2025
An exhibition of contemporary art in a stunning new Japanese museum, designed by Shigeru Ban, speaks to the natural environment as well as the industrial suburbs around it.
by Jincy Iype Jun 06, 2025
STIR interviews Maia Garau and Tristan Hupe-Guimarães of Tellart, reflecting on how the experiential design studio operates from the intersection of culture, nature and technology.
by Aarthi Mohan May 29, 2025
The South Korean artist's ongoing showcase at the Tate Modern captures the essence of migration and layered memories of home.
by Asmita Singh May 23, 2025
Curated by Katerina Gregos, the exhibition at ΕΜΣΤ outlines the institutional mechanisms of violence & exploitation of non-human species & reaffirms their roles as sentient beings.
by Eleonora Ghedini May 08, 2025
Icarus is the Japanese artist’s first major retrospective to date in Europe and reveals a topicality with the current geopolitical and environmental crisis.
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