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Lightweight Vehicles & Specialist Engineering
Ariel’s Nomad 2 leaves its structure in view. The next generation is interesting less as a larger power figure than as a thorough reconsideration of a deliberately unusual kind of car.
Tension-Set Jewellery & Material Knowledge
Niessing’s Spannring Round makes a diamond appear to float between two ends of a band. The apparent absence of a setting is actually a precise piece of material engineering.
Contemporary Sake & Assemblage
Released in October 2026, IWA 5 Assemblage 7 treats different sake components as a palette. The number identifies an edition of a continuing composition, not seven years of age.
Contemporary Tapestry & Image Translation
At Aubusson, a scene from Spirited Away becomes a monumental woven image. The unexpected discovery is the new work required when an animated world must be rebuilt in thread.
Working Scientific Heritage & Public Learning
In Franeker, Eise Eisinga built a working model of the solar system above a domestic room. The extraordinary part is not just that it survives, but that it still makes an abstract idea visible.
Expressive Keyboards & Musical Gesture
Expressive E’s Osmose keeps the familiar piano keyboard but makes pressure and sideways movement part of the sound. The instrument rewards what happens after a note begins.
Experimental Housing & Inhabited Heritage
Habitat 67 stacks homes without surrendering the idea of a private terrace. Almost six decades later, its strongest argument is that people still live inside the experiment.
Portable Sailing & Inflatable Structures
Tiwal changes a less glamorous part of sailing: storing and moving the boat. An inflatable hull and dismantling frame make access to the water part of the design problem.
Computational Textiles & Contemporary Dress
A-POC ABLE ISSEY MIYAKE and Nature Architects use engineered shrinkage to turn cloth into a three-dimensional garment. The pattern is not decoration. It helps tell the material what to become.
Port Maturation & Cellar Knowledge
Niepoort’s Garrafeira inserts a long glass-demijohn chapter between cask and bottle. The unusual vessel reveals why the way a wine spends time matters as much as the date on its label.
Decorative Arts & Contemporary Material Collaboration
Levantina brings Tessitura Bevilacqua velvet into Materica’s metal-surface world. Its appeal lies in the friction between two material traditions, not a generic claim of Venetian luxury.
Experimental Instruments & Participatory Music
Amsterdam’s SoundLAB invites people to make music on unfamiliar instruments before they have learned a conventional technique. A different interface can change who feels able to begin.
