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Red means go: Maria Porro on bringing Salone del Mobile Milano to Riyadh

Both in design and in nature, red is never neutral. It’s energy, urgency, an exclamation mark. For Maria Porro, president of Salone del Mobile Milano, it’s also a metaphor for transformation. When she speaks about “Red in Progress: Salone del Mobile Milano meets Riyadh,” the world’s most influential design fair’s first foray into the MENA […]

Selfhood for Sale

My face is the front of shopMy face is the real shopfrontMy shop is the face I frontI’m real when I shop my face The opening lines of the late artist Sophie’s track “Faceshopping” loop in my head every time I walk down a high street. Not like background music, but as an internal monologue […]

Aapne: Diasporas and the early internet

AAPNA: OUR OWN, ONE OF US        PLURAL: AAPNE                  AAP·NEIGH As a proud Bradfordian who spent the first 18 years of his life trying to escape Bradford, I have grown a certain affinity to the place I now call home. Bradistan, as it’s commonly known, […]