This Fall/Winter edition of .Wonder Book presents twenty-six projects including design and architecture, redevelopment and new builds, hospitality and work, and home living and leisure time. This “collectible” selection of recently completed projects on varied scales in different regions and cities of the world was chosen to make room for a kind of “scan” of contemporary design, rather than to just identify trends. This edition includes projects, as usual, as well as faces of people who agreed to take part in this edition with personal contributions, such as the interviews with Julia Capp and Denis Montel of RDAI, Marco Magni of the Guicciardini & Magni Architetti studio, Carlo Masseroli of Nhood, and in ‘White Box’ by Francesco Conserva from the architecture studio Open Project, along Michael Giuliano, Regional Director of Operations for Italy at The Social Hub, Lavinia Guelfi, Contract Commercial Director Lema and Frank Uffen, Managing Director of Community & Partnerships at The Social Hub, as well as Roberto Romanin, senior designer at ColorWorks™.
Reading their words, we see the importance of designing to create curiosity, inclusivity, and physical and mental well-being with positive individual experiences as well as a sense of community, as seen in student housing, the transformation of city sections, and designs for museums and cultural institutions. It is needed to pay attention to people and their relationships in space and in the rhythm of their daily lives. In a state of “permacrisis,” to quote the guide to colors of 2024 from The ColorForward™, Third story: Anything Else?: “Humanity is not over, as it and its capacity for collaboration remain the best resources with which to approach this scenario. There is an increasing emphasis on a vision of ‘community first’ in urban settings, making the physical and mental wellbeing of local citizens central.”
Enjoy the read.
