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19.09.2026
AI Makes Knowledge Cheap. What Becomes Expensive?
As answers become abundant, value moves toward judgement: knowing what to ask, what to doubt, and which ideas deserve to be made.
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OBJECTS, CULTURE, ECONOMY AND SYSTEMS
013
03.06.2026
What Globalization Promised, What It Delivered
A system designed primarily for efficiency has concentrated risk in ways that are now unfolding in real time.
011
30.05.2026
The Objects Between Us and Technology
There is a paradox at the heart of contemporary technology. The more advanced our devices become, the less they seem to belong to the environments they inhabit.
010
23.05.2026
Leaving Beige Behind
It is the best possible sign of a color when nobody who sees it knows what to call it. (John Ruskin, 1859)
012
29.04.2026
How culture drives the economy
What drives the economy at scale is not just production or efficiency; it is culture.
009
14.02.2026
The Aesthetics of Use
Objects are celebrated at the moment they leave production, before they have entered the friction of daily life. Yet this fixation on newness reveals a narrow understanding of worth.
008
08.02.2026
The Economy of Attention
We pay with our attention long before we pay with money. Every scroll, glance, pause, and click is a transaction.
007
11.09.2025
Trust as Infrastructure
Roads and buildings are not the only infrastructures. Trust itself is infrastructure. Collaboration cannot exist without it. What does it mean to design for trust?
006
06.09.2025
Legacy Without Monuments
Instead of leaving monuments that crumble, how do we leave legacies that circulate, feed, and regenerate?
005
30.08.2025
The Invention of Normal
Normal is not natural. It is constructed, reinforced, and passed along until it feels invisible
004
30.08.2025
What We Choose to Forget
Perhaps the question is not whether we forget, but how.
003
30.08.2025
We are all just Stardust
To say we are stardust is not metaphor, it is fact.
002
30.08.2025
Collaboration. Transformation. Reverence.
The ethic of the future lies not in grand gestures, but in how we relate.
001
03.01.2025
Everyone designs who devises courses of action aimed at changing existing situations
Design is about creating solutions to problems, so how can we design ourselves out of today's crisis? Perhaps we are the design.
Zsofia Kollar is a Netherlands-based entrepreneur, designer, researcher, writer, and speaker working at the intersection of material science, design, and business.