The Crit

By Disegno

The Crit invites designers to review their own careers, picking out their highlights, lowlights and ambitions for the future.

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June 22, 2022 21. Otters with Secrets
Returning in full force after Disegno’s editorial team ventured out to the Salone De Mobile, this month’s Crit explores what a two-year hiatus has done to the design fair behemoth; reflects on the publication and ramifications of the Bartlett report; debates the sentience of an AI chatbot and its effect on the public imagination; and examines a series of new projects and products.
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1h 5min
June 01, 2022 20. Bees Don't Wear Shoes
A special episode sees The Crit travel to the Eden Project in Cornwall to meet artist Alexandra Daisy Ginsberg, whose Pollinator Pathmaker project explores interspecies design and questions whether creative practice can make things better, and for whom?

[Featuring sound design from Nick Ryan]

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26min
April 08, 2022 19. Twang the Belt
Looking back over March, Disegno’s editorial team discuss diversity and Marsha Ramroop’s exit from RIBA; Diébédo Francis Kéré and his selection as the 2022 Pritzker Prize laureate; Frida Escobedo’s appointment to design the new Met extension; and Santiago’s newly appointed heat officer. Also included in the episode are projects and products including Radical Acts at Harewood House, the Dyson Zone headphones, Plusminus by Stefan Diez, and Queer Spaces: An Atlas of LGBTQIA+ Places and Stories by Adam Nathaniel Furman and Joshua Mardell.
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51min
February 28, 2022 18. Of Tea
This February, The Crit covers changes to Google's cookie policy; MRDV on the record about the Marble Arch Mound; furniture designed around fermentation by The Decorators; Danielle Dean's latest show at Tate Britain; a new director for the Cooper Hewitt museum; electric anti-poaching bikes and project and products from Barber and Osgerby, Sony, VG&P and Pauline Deltour.
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55min
February 02, 2022 17. Clement Weather
Happy Lunar New Year! The Crit is back for 2022 – and the Year of the Tiger – with a full first month of design news. This episode includes the continued rise of NFTs; Salone del Mobile rescheduled; the craze for Wordle; a pig-to-human heart transplant; ostentatious branding; the launch of the Framework laptop; a dustpan and brush by Studio Irvine for Muji; and a new exhibition from Mac Collins.
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58min
December 16, 2021 16. The 2021 Review
As 2021 draws to a close, The Crit invites you to settle down, relax and plug in to our design review of the past year. Join the team as they run through the architecture and design projects, trends, and heroes and villains who made 2021 what it was. Happy holiday listening!
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November 29, 2021 15. Garden Via Algorithm
November brings a bumper edition of architectural scandals to The Crit, courtesy of the final instalment of The Tulip saga, and the reviled Munger dormitory. It also sees our hosts discuss Apple's new self-repair scheme; a sneak peek of Disegno #31 through the lens of bacteria-related plastics and the opening of Hong Kong's long-awaited M+ museum; plus products and projects from Daisy Ginsberg, Laufen, Map Project Office, Bene, and Federica.
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53min
October 20, 2021 14. Suitably Woolly
It’s October and the editorial team behind Disegno pick apart this month’s stories including Dubai’s delayed Expo 2020; an unusual Balenciaga fashion show with cartoon guests; an Eames cameo in the guise of the Club C Reebok shoe; Stefan Diez’s AYNO collection for Midgard; a visit to Somerset’s East Quay arts centre; and a very pleasant architectural video game. This episode also includes an extended interview with Kaat Debo, director of the Antwerp Fashion Museum MoMu.
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September 06, 2021 13. Mound Economics
This month on the Crit, Disegno's deputy editor India Block and editor-in-chief Oli Stratford discuss David Adjaye's hospitals for Ghana; OnlyFans’s banking woes; Sou Fujimoto’s pollution-funnelling Thousand Trees project; the uncertain future facing California’s gig economy workers as Proposition 22 is struck down; and a whole host of recent product and project releases, not least Yuri Suzuki’s Sonic Bloom installation.

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August 02, 2021 12. Kitsch flame
Join show hosts Oli Stratford and Johanna Agerman Ross as they explore the design elements behind the opening ceremony of the Tokyo 2020 Olympics; Phyllida Barlow’s new sculpture for Highgate Cemetery; Samuel Ross’s 2021 Black British and POC artist grants; the second edition of the Where Are the Black Designers? annual conference; Virgil Abloh’s promotion at LVMH; and the return of Phoebe Philo.

The month the show also features a long-form interview with David Rockwell, founder of the new York-based architecture practice Rockwell Group, speaking about his new book Drama and why architecture has much to learn from the impermanence of set design.

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