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HOARDICULTURE is a series celebrating hoarding as a modern malady of collecting so much research and claiming it as a cultural trend.
“Hoardiculture: Collecting so much junk there are piles of random shit cluttering everywhere possible and then claiming it’s a cultural trend.”
(Urban Dictionary)
A selection of the past weeks’ insightful treasures, amassed from our constant research, that signal social-cultural change.
Friction is being reintroduced in praise of healthier digital lives, more memorable experiences, and life-enriching discomfort, according to Sarah Housley in her Design Intelligence #12 newsletter.
Internet culture meets traditional arts at Thomas Mailaender’s Novum Glossarium solo show, transforming into an archaeological museum of the future.
Eckhaus Latta offers a framework for spirited clothes through normalised sexuality, uncanny digital texture, and demystified corporate jargon.
Strategy director Alex Tran examines Cult Brand Behaviour: Creative Rules For Culture Hacking in a paper “that distils how to build brand devotion in a time of choice overload and perpetual distraction”.
As dupes are now an integral part of the cultural zeitgeist and fashion ecosystem, is dupe culture out of control?
When you think about it, sustainable consumption is uncomplicated: “Destroy your t-shirts [...] Live your life in them”. After all, “trashing them is the entire point”.
Nike embraces a more holistic and integrative version of sport performance with the Nike x Hyperice boots and vest, designed to support athletes' feet and bodies through cooling and air-compression massage wearable technologies.
Performance shoe manufacturing accelerates with the “spray-on” technique applied to the new On’s Cloudboom Strike LS, incorporating a sprayable upper.
The jewellery sector officially enters new body areas to adorn with the rising success of grills, as per Nyara Sabally’s gold and gemstone grills for the Paris Olympics.
Following the steps of Ssense’s Bridal assortment launched in July 2023 and showcasing a spectrum of style for wedding wear, coquette fashion designer Ella Loca unveiled the LA Virgen Hat, which hybridises references from the Chicanx culture, streetwear, and the Catholic religion.
Set against the backdrop of rising Islamophobia in France, the new book In the Name of God published by Middle East Archive is “a celebration of the cultural and religious life of the Muslim diaspora in France”.