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Kadre Architects transform a dilapidated motel into an inviting housing complex
Jun 17, 2026by Bansari Paghdar Jun 17, 2026
Located in East Compton, California, Hub City Heights is a 40-unit permanent housing project with a flexible framework and an expansive parking lot-turned communal courtyard.
Performance and lived reality animate Abhishek Khedekar’s Tamasha at NCPA
Jun 15, 2026by Srishti Ojha Jun 15, 2026
The New Delhi-based photographer’s docu-fiction photo series follows a nomadic troupe of Tamasha folk-art performers who bend form to capture feelings.
Seasons symbolise more than weather in Sohrab Hura’s A Winter Summer
Jun 09, 2026by Srishti Ojha Jun 09, 2026
The exhibition of the Indian photographer’s works at Experimenter in Mumbai depicts the lives of locals in Kashmir and Madhya Pradesh, focusing on the poetics of the everyday.
London Festival of Architecture 2026 probes belonging amidst multitudes
Jun 09, 2026by Pranjal Maheshwari Jun 09, 2026
STIR picks the best exhibits, talks and more from this year's LFA programme, returning for its 22nd edition, that best engage the city’s multifaceted architectural and cultural fabric.
STIRpad: a launch pad for your new
by Amit Gupta Jul 01, 2021
Explore STIRpad, our brand NEW digital launch pad to help creators, studios, galleries and manufacturers share and demonstrate their NEW collections, exhibitions, special projects, new designs, collaborations, milestones and much more...
How long can we continue performing neutrality under the spectre of war?
Jun 04, 2026by Debika Ray Jun 04, 2026
Protests, strikes and exclusions at the 2026 Venice Art Biennale are exposing the fragility of the international order on which the cultural world is built.
Nat Pyper’s carrier bags of fugitive stories with A Queer Year of Love Letters
Jun 04, 2026by Mrinmayee Bhoot Jun 04, 2026
The alphabet artist’s recent book details their six-year research and design project, which documented the type designs of various LGBTQIA+ activist groups as an act of preservation.
On planetary speculation as shared cultural infrastructure: Liam Young's In Other Worlds
May 28, 2026by Bansari Paghdar, Anmol Ahuja May 28, 2026
The solo exhibition staged at London’s Barbican Centre positions the speculative architect and filmmaker's fictions as imminent worlds rather than distant dreams and fears.
Locating Sufi sensibility amid fascism: Khaled Sabsabi’s Australia Pavilion
by Srishti Ojha May 29, 2026
The multimedia artist’s two installations at the 61st Venice Biennale, conference of one’s self and khalil, ask audiences to imagine a self and world harmonious even in instability.
Global Design Forum Istanbul framed multiple lived worlds of design in contact
Jun 02, 2026by Jigyasa Sharma, Zohra Khan Jun 02, 2026
Presented in collaboration with People Places Ideas, London Design Festival’s global design discourse—held outside London—attracted the passerby as much as design specialists.
Looking for hope and legacy at NYCxDESIGN in New York
May 30, 2026by Sunena V Maju May 30, 2026
From IKONstudio's Halston revival to USM's Food Form Function, NYCxDESIGN 2026 asked the questions that mattered most: Does design still matter, and will any of it last?
On wells, depth and colour: All is Well at RALPH PUCCI International, New York
May 22, 2026by Sunena V Maju May 22, 2026
STIR in conversation with Ralph Pucci and Eric Schmitt discovers how the former’s journey mirrors the latter’s belief that great design quietly outlasts its own time.
Experimental designer Tadeas Podracky on traditional folklore as ‘living systems’
May 22, 2026by Pranjal Maheshwari May 22, 2026
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