"All this he saw, for one moment breathless and intense, vivid on the morning sky; and still, as he looked, he lived; and still, as he lived, he wondered."

MDW2025 – Day 5

Have you ever been inside the technical sole of a running shoe? This is the experience subtly offered by Willo Perron for Vans in the “Checkered Future” installation at the Triennale Milano for the Design Week.

Through a stunning mixture of lights, sounds, smoke and moving mirrors, the experience is well worth the wait.

Video also here.

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Tracy Chevalier’s Remarkable Creatures

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Cixin Liu’s Hold Up the Sky

This is a really splendid collection of stories, some shorter than other, and I wouldn’t have collected them this way: you have proper sci-fi stories and fairy tales, stories about science (with very little fiction), a story on coal mines and a war tale. But,

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The Answer’s in Your Model (and yet, it might be wrong)

A few weeks ago, in one of those happy convergences of life, I was reading an Italian essay on Italo Calvino and artificial intelligence (I wrote about it here), and there’s a very interesting set of passages that have to do with our contemporary obsession

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    […] from the running shoe I talked about yesterday, the Triennale also offers a nice collaboration between Ruffino, a renowned Italian winery […]

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