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1. from beads and clay to paper and wood, makers keep finding ways to make flowers bloom

   flowers remain one of craft's most enduring subjects, inspiring makers across disciplines to recreate, reinterpret, and preserve the botanical world through handwork.

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2. VHS tapes and cassette recordings replace yarn in a woven archive of collective memory

   kuba święcicki transforms obsolete recording media into a work that explores how memories can survive long after the technologies that once stored them have disappeared.

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3. arno coenen bejewels dragon sculptures with taiwanese ingredients at huannan market

   three large-scale public artworks by dutch artist arno coenen transform the huannan market in taipei, taiwan, into a cultural landscape.

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4. woven bamboo canopy forms floral field bending over sunken urban plaza in shanghai

   ten clusters of bamboo poles form an inward-cantilevered canopy system.

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5. translucent red acrylic tulips form a glowing participatory light and sound installation

   inspired by red tulips as symbols of remembrance, resilience and renewal, the project invites visitors to move through a landscape of illuminated forms where light, sound and human presence become part of a shared spatial experience.

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6. 29,000 hand-crafted clay bricks narrate shared histories at the saudi arabia pavilion in venice

   created over nearly 30,000 artisan hours, the installation explores how collective making can preserve cultural memory.

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7. lucia pietroiusti and filipa ramos on ‘the shape of a circle in the mind of a fish’

   from 2019-2025, the serpentine galleries hosted an interdisciplinary group of scientists, artists, and researchers to unpack the idea consciousness and knowledge making across forms and beings.

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8. luca pronzato to open casa ideale, a pop-up hotel and gallery inside a 1970s arles villa

   inside a midcentury villa in the south of france, a pop-up hotel brings photography, design, and gastronomy into close conversation.

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9. living fog cloud by fujiko nakaya fills tadao ando’s rotunda at bourse de commerce in paris

   cloud #07156 continuously changes form throughout the day, revealing the invisible forces that shape our experience of architecture.

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10. can repair begin with return? ‘tide of returns’ brings ancestral memory to venice

    at ocean space, displaced cultural objects and ancestral stories move through sand, woven textiles, and water toward ongoing repatriation.

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