Dezeen is hosting a series of events during Stockholm Design Week this year, including our Design Disruptors talks, the Dezeen Awards 2025 launch party and a drinks event celebrating the first-ever Dezeen newspaper.Read on to find out more about what Dezeen is up to and don't forget to check out our digital guide to Stockholm Design Week 2025 on Dezeen Events Guide.Faye Toogood will give a keynote. Photo courtesy of ToogoodDezeen x Faye Toogood keynote: ManufractureDate:Tuesday 4 FebruaryTime: 11.00 am to 12.00 pmAddress: Paper Bar, Hall A, Stockholm Furniture Fair, Stockholmsmssan, Mssvgen 1To kick off Dezeen's Design Disruptors talks programme, taking place during the first two days of the Stockholm Furniture Fair (SFF), our deputy editor Cajsa Carlson is moderating a talk with this year's guest of honour British designer Faye Toogood.Aligned with Toogood's Manufracture installation, this keynote speech will discuss our complex relationship with craft in the digital age, and explore how the manufacturing industry is broken and the role of the designer is fracturing.The talk is free to attend for anyone with a ticket to SFF.Cristiano Pigazzini, Natsai Audrey Chieza and Celine Sandberg will speak on materialsDezeen panel discussion: Materials of the futureDate: Tuesday 4 FebruaryTime: 1.00 pm to 2.00 pmAddress: Paper Bar, Hall A, Stockholm Furniture Fair, Stockholmsmssan, Mssvgen 1Dezeen is hosting a panel discussion exploring how material innovations and new fabrication technologies can change the world around us.Our design and environment editor Jennifer Hahn will chair the discussion with Faber Futures founder Natsai Audrey Chieza, Note Design Studio founding partner Cristiano Pigazzini and Agoprene CEO Celine Sandberg.Together, the panellists will reveal how new approaches to materials are shaping their work and how they might enable a shift to a circular economy.The talk is free to attend for anyone with a ticket to SFF.Dezeen is launching a newspaper at Stockholm Design WeekDezeen Newspaper launch and Stockholm Furniture Fair drinksDate: Tuesday 4 FebruaryTime: 4.00 pm to 5.30 pmAddress: Paper Bar, Hall A, Stockholm Furniture Fair, Stockholmsmssan, Mssvgen 1To celebrate the release of Dezeen Dispatch, our first-ever physical newspaper, we're partnering with Stockholm Furniture Fair to host happy hour drinks at the fair's Paper Bar in Hall A.The newspaper includes an interview with British designer Faye Toogood, who is this year's Guest of Honour at the fair, as well as an in-depth look at emerging Swedish designers, an exploration of recent shifts in the country's design scene, the highlights to look out for during the week, tips from locals and much more.Copies of the free newspaper will be distributed around the city and will be available at the furniture fair. Make sure to grab your copy of Dezeen's brand-new newspaper!Find out more about Dezeen Dispatch hereDezeen will be in conversation with Italian designer Luca NichettoDezeen x Luca Nichetto talkDate: Tuesday 4 FebruaryTime: Doors 6.00 pm, talk 6.30 pm to 7.30 pmAddress:Gulled Showroom, Rosenlundsgatan 38Dezeen's editorial director Max Fraser is due to host atalk with Italian designer Luca Nichetto at the Stockholm showroom of furniture brand &Tradition.To celebrate the addition of new Nichetto designs to the &Tradition portfolio, the pair will discuss the art of storytelling and the works that have captured the essence of Nichetto's artistic practice. The talk will be followed by drinks and snacks.To attend, please RSVP torsvp@andtradition.com.Dutch designer Ineke Hans is speaking in the second keynoteDezeen x Ineke Hans keynote: Design disruptionDate: Wednesday 5 FebruaryTime: 11.00 am to 12.00 pmAddress: Paper Bar, Hall A, Stockholm Furniture Fair, Stockholmsmssan, Mssvgen 1For the second day of our talks programme at SFF, Dezeen's editorial director Max Fraser is moderating a keynote with Dutch designer Ineke Hans.Hans will discuss her work and delve into how to disrupt more, waste less and act better in an age where we need to challenge aspects of mass production while striving for social and environmental change.The talk is free to attend for anyone with a ticket to SFF.Alexandra Zenner, Carl-Axel Wahlstrm, Marta Giralt Dunj and Sean Barrett (clockwise from top left)Dezeen panel discussion: The AI-volutionDate: Wednesday 5 FebruaryTime: 1.00 pm to 2.00 pmAddress: Paper Bar, Hall A, Stockholm Furniture Fair, Stockholmsmssan, Mssvgen 1Dezeen is also hosting a panel discussion titled The AI-volution where speakers will discuss the opportunities and challenges of AI becoming a digital design collaborator.Our editor-at-large Amy Frearson will chair a discussion with Interesting Times Gang's head of innovation Sean Barrett, The Copy Laboratory founder Carl-Axel Wahlstrm, Gharage creative strategy lead Alexandra Zenner and FranklinTill design director Marta Giralt Dunj.The talk is free to attend for anyone with a ticket to SFF.We're hosting a talk and party to celebrate the launch of Dezeen Awards 2025Dezeen Awards x Nordiska Galleriet talk and partyDate: Wednesday 5 FebruaryTime: Doors at 6.00 pm, talk: 6.30 pm to 7.30 pm, party 7.00 pm until lateAddress: Nordiska Galleriet, Nybrogatan 11To celebrate the launch of Dezeen Awards 2025 we've teamed up with Swedish design authority and retailer Nordiska Galleriet for a panel discussion titled: Design that matters.Moderated by Dezeen's editorial director Max Fraser, the talk will explore how shifting consumption trends are shaping design today. The panel will include Front co-founder Sofia Lagerkvist, Kasthall and Glasshouse Helsinki CEO Mirkku Kullberg and Elding Oscarson co-founder Johan Oscarson.The talk will be followed by the Dezeen Awards 2025 launch party with music and drinks.Register to attend the free event Dezeen and Zeekr will host a talk about adaptive environmentsDezeen x Zeekr talkDate: Thursday 6 FebruaryTime:09.30amAddress:Zeekr Center Stockholm, Hamngatan 37Electric vehicle company Zeekr and furniture brandMassproductions will present a talk on the theme "Adaptive Environments: Seeking More from Transformative Design" moderated by Dezeen deputy editor Cajsa Carlson.The panel discussion will focus on how cars and homes can be designed to adapt to people's evolving lifestyles and explore innovation and versatility. It will feature Zeekr's electric minivan Zeekr Mix and Massproductions' Astro chair, as well as an excerpt from the furnituremaker's exhibition Sculptures from the Factory.To attend the event, please sign up here.Dezeen will be hosting a drinks party with Stockholm StadshotellAprs Fair drinks with Dezeen at Stockholm StadshotellDate: Thursday 6 FebruaryTime: 4.00pm to 8.00pmAddress: Stockholm Stadshotell, Bjrngrdsgatan 23Dezeen is partnering with the newly opened Stockholm Stadshotell for an Aprs Fair drinks party at the hotel bar.Located in Stockholm's Sdermalm area, Stockholm Stadshotell was built in the 1870s and has been restored to "become a kind of living room for one of the most dynamic and creative cities in the world".The Aprs Fair drinks are open to everyone from 4pm.Stockholm Design Week 2025Stockholm Design Week takes place from 3 to 9 February 2025. See our Stockholm Design Week 2025 guide on Dezeen Events Guide for information about the many other exhibitions, installations and talks taking place throughout the week.The post Dezeen to host party and launch newspaper during Stockholm Design Week appeared first on Dezeen.

Dezeen Showroom:materials take centre stage in German brand Gira's Esprit line of switches and sockets, which come in glass, stainless steel or linoleum-plywood. The Esprit range was designed to enable customers to create a home to reflect their personality, with eclectic mix-and-matched colour combinations.The Esprit range combines materials and colours. Photo by Patrick SchwienbacherFeaturing a simple and timeless square shape, the Esprit design has a central plastic button in a frame made from either glass, stainless steel or linoleum plywood.Each material comes in a range of coloured finishes, ranging from chrome to anthracite and bronze for the metal and black, white or even umber or mint for the glass.It is built on square shapes and comes in a range of sizesGira describes the glass frames as bringing lightness and clarity to interior designs. The metal contributes a glint of luxury, and the linoleum-plywood which visibly layers the two organic materials suggests style and sustainability.The Esprit range is available in a range of sizes ranging from 1-gang to 4-gang and echoes the size and styling of Gira's Pushbutton sensor 4 smart control unit, allowing the two products to be placed harmoniously side-by-side.Product details:Product: EspritBrand: GiraContact: architects@gira.comDezeen ShowroomDezeen Showroom offers an affordable space for brands to launch new products and showcase their designers and projects to Dezeen's huge global audience. For more details email showroom@dezeen.com.Dezeen Showroom is an example of partnership content on Dezeen. Find out more about partnership content here.The post Esprit switches and sockets by Gira appeared first on Dezeen.

Great automotive design is a game of tensionbetween power and elegance, aggression and restraint, history and progress. Bugatti has always thrived in that space, creating cars that balance brutal performance with a sculptural presence that feels almost timeless. But as hypercars push further into the realms of advanced aerodynamics and extreme engineering, that balance becomes harder to maintain. The Avallon concept tackles that challenge head-on, rethinking how form and function coexist while staying unmistakably Bugatti.Instead of chasing radical reinvention, the Avallon refines the elements that have always defined the marque. It embraces the brands signature split-body aesthetic, exposes its mechanical heart like a piece of kinetic art, and integrates aerodynamics so seamlessly that they feel like natural extensions of the design rather than add-ons. Every vent, crease, and intake plays a role, not just in shaping airflow but in creating a visual language that speaks to both tradition and the future. Its a study in how far a brand can evolve while keeping its soul intact.Designer: Frdric LE SCIELLOURAt the front, the Avallon reinterprets Bugattis iconic horseshoe grille with a sharper, more contemporary execution. Its slightly recessed, flanked by large, angular air intakes that channel airflow around the nose for improved aerodynamics. The headlights feature a distinctive quadruple-LED cluster on each side, emphasizing the brands dedication to precision engineering and modern lighting design. This arrangement creates a striking horizontal emphasis that contrasts with the verticality of the central grille, giving the front an aggressive yet refined stance.Move your eye to the rear, however, and a striking central spine runs down the deck, dividing the upper body into two subtly distinct planes. This signature split recalls Bugattis heritage, from classic models to the modern Chiron, while also serving an aerodynamic function by directing airflow toward the engine bay. The engine itself is a spectacle, sitting beneath two pronounced air intake housings capped with grille-like covers. These arent just mechanical necessities; theyre sculpted into the rear clamshell as design statements, accentuated by a thin LED strip that runs between them. The result is a futuristic, motorsport-inspired aesthetic that highlights both form and function.Along the sides, the design plays with concave and convex surfaces, giving the car a sense of motion even when its parked. The body tapers inward at the waistline, making room for deep, sculpted side intakes that feed air into the powerhouse behind the driver. Carbon-fiber elements trace the lower edges of the car, blending aerodynamics with aesthetics. The side mirrors, perched on razor-thin arms, almost look like theyre floatingclearly designed with both form and function in mind. And then there are the wheels: a multi-spoke design with green brake calipers peeking through, adding a bold splash of color against the otherwise sleek and serious bodywork.At the back, a slim LED strip stretches across the entire width of the car, with an illuminated Bugatti badge sitting front and center. Below it, a gloss-black panel holds the Avallon badging, while carbon-fiber mesh vents suggest serious heat management for the engine. The diffuser is seamlessly integrated into the lower section, with rectangular exhaust outlets that echo the vent shapes seen up top. The broad-shouldered stance and tapering tail keep the car unmistakably Bugatti, while the sharper details signal an evolution in design.What makes the Avallon concept so captivating is its ability to blend functionality with artistry. Every curve and crease serves a purpose, from optimizing airflow to highlighting the engineering marvel that is the engine. The interplay of exposed carbon fiber and polished silver panels creates a dynamic sense of depth and layering, as if the car were assembled with the precision of a master jeweler. Yet, for all its modern touches, the Avallon remains unmistakably Bugatti: sophisticated, muscular, and dripping with heritage.If this is a glimpse at whats next for Bugatti, its an exciting one. The Avallon stays true to the brands DNAelegant, powerful, and obsessively detailedwhile injecting fresh ideas that could define the next generation of hypercars. Its a reminder that when Bugatti dreams up a concept, its not just about speed or luxury; its about making something that feels truly special.The post The Bugatti Avallon Concept is an Absolute Masterclass in Form, Function, and Speed first appeared on Yanko Design.

Advanced Architecture Lab and Wiki World have collaborated to design a wilderness retreat that redefines traditional architectural norms and how humans engage with their environment. Dubbed the Cabin of Maze, this innovative project explores blurred spatial relationships, offering a distinctive living experience.It is situated in the Wuhan Ganlushan Culture Creativity Cit, which is an emerging cultural and tourism hub at the northern entrance of Yangtze New Town, China. The retreat merges solitude with communal living, providing an immersive experience that is both unique and reflective of its surroundings.Designer: Advanced Architecture Lab and Wiki WorldWith the Cabin Of Maze, the designers wanted to provide a unique living experience, that is a far cry from conventional floor plans. The architectural duo instead decided to create 13 interconnected rooms (bedrooms, living rooms, and bathrooms), scattering them all across an island. The rooms are connected by a 100-meter-long (328-ft), 80-centimeter-wide (31.5-in) black corridor, which serves as the heart of the entire project.The Cabin of Maze is unlike traditional designs. This project wants to challenge and surprise its residents, disorienting them with its varied corridors and passageways. The main corridor isnt just a typical passage, it functions as a maze, delivering a truly unique and one-of-a-kind experience. At certain sections, it opens up to the sky, creating small courtyards.The experience has a sense of spatial disorientation to it, thereby giving visitors to get lost inside. The creators wanted to intentionally form this feeling of being lost, making it a playful and interesting feature of the retreat. It becomes a sort of cabin-finding game, creating a sense of discovery and adventure in the air. The Cabin of Maze was constructed using carbonized timber, a material that harmonizes with the forest environment while providing durability and weather resistance. This choice reflects the architects dedication to using natural materials, and focus on a reduced carbon footprint during the building process.The Cabin of Maze was made using carbonized timber, a material traditionally valued for its ability to seamlessly integrate with forest surroundings while providing exceptional durability and weather resistance. The architects chose carbonized wood as part of their commitment to utilizing natural materials, aiming to minimize the building processs carbon footprint.The cabins are elevated above the ground, thereby causing minimal disruption to the natural landscape. This elevation reduces soil impact, promotes better water drainage, and helps preserve the local ecosystem. The cabins feature a modular and flexible design and are assembled with small metal components that facilitate easy construction and deconstruction. This adaptability allows the layout to be modified and rearranged as needed over time.The interior of the cabin is quite simple and organic, with an emphasis on connecting with nature. Natural textures and materials highlight the space, thereby complementing the exterior. The rooms feature basic living amenities, so comfort is maintained, and prioritized alongside some adventure. The design is quite minimal, amped with big windows that offer views of the surrounding river. The interiors are created like a blank canvas, allowing the residents to feel at home, and customize the space according to their preference.Even though the Cabin of Maze is an immersive and thrilling experience, the disorienting corridor and the amusing style of the design may not be preferred by everyone. However, this project does deliver an innovative retreat, wherein the village or tribe experience has been reinvented and rejazzed.The post Elevated Eco-Retreat In China Uses A Disorienting Corridor To Create A Immersive Living Experience first appeared on Yanko Design.

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In the week since a Chinese AI model called DeepSeek became a household name, a dizzying number of narratives have gained steam, with varying degrees of accuracy: that the model is collecting your personal data (maybe); that it will upend AI as we know it (too soon to tellbut do read my colleague Wills story on that!); and perhaps most notably, that DeepSeeks new, more efficient approach means AI might not need to guzzle the massive amounts of energy that it currently does.The latter notion is misleading, and new numbers shared with MIT Technology Review help show why. These early figuresbased on the performance of one of DeepSeeks smaller models on a small number of promptssuggest it could be more energy intensive when generating responses than the equivalent-size model from Meta. The issue might be that the energy it saves in training is offset by its more intensive techniques for answering questions, and by the long answers they produce.Add the fact that other tech firms, inspired by DeepSeeks approach, may now start building their own similar low-cost reasoning models, and the outlook for energy consumption is already looking a lot less rosy.The life cycle of any AI model has two phases: training and inference. Training is the often months-long process in which the model learns from data. The model is then ready for inference, which happens each time anyone in the world asks it something. Both usually take place in data centers, where they require lots of energy to run chips and cool servers.On the training side for its R1 model, DeepSeeks team improved whats called a mixture of experts technique, in which only a portion of a models billions of parametersthe knobs a model uses to form better answersare turned on at a given time during training. More notably, they improved reinforcement learning, where a models outputs are scored and then used to make it better. This is often done by human annotators, but the DeepSeek team got good at automating it.The introduction of a way to make training more efficient might suggest that AI companies will use less energy to bring their AI models to a certain standard. Thats not really how it works, though.Because the value of having a more intelligent system is so high, wrote Anthropic cofounder Dario Amodei on his blog, it causes companies to spend more, not less, on training models. If companies get more for their money, they will find it worthwhile to spend more, and therefore use more energy. The gains in cost efficiency end up entirely devoted to training smarter models, limited only by the companys financial resources, he wrote. Its an example of whats known as the Jevons paradox.But thats been true on the training side as long as the AI race has been going. The energy required for inference is where things get more interesting.DeepSeek is designed as a reasoning model, which means its meant to perform well on things like logic, pattern-finding, math, and other tasks that typical generative AI models struggle with. Reasoning models do this using something called chain of thought. It allows the AI model to break its task into parts and work through them in a logical order before coming to its conclusion.You can see this with DeepSeek. Ask whether its okay to lie to protect someones feelings, and the model first tackles the question with utilitarianism, weighing the immediate good against the potential future harm. It then considers Kantian ethics, which propose that you should act according to maxims that could be universal laws. It considers these and other nuances before sharing its conclusion. (It finds that lying is generally acceptable in situations where kindness and prevention of harm are paramount, yet nuanced with no universal solution, if youre curious.)Chain-of-thought models tend to perform better on certain benchmarks such as MMLU, which tests both knowledge and problem-solving in 57 subjects. But, as is becoming clear with DeepSeek, they also require significantly more energy to come to their answers. We have some early clues about just how much more.Scott Chamberlin spent years at Microsoft, and later Intel, building tools to help reveal the environmental costs of certain digital activities. Chamberlin did some initial tests to see how much energy a GPU uses as DeepSeek comes to its answer. The experiment comes with a bunch of caveats: He tested only a medium-size version of DeepSeeks R-1, using only a small number of prompts. Its also difficult to make comparisons with other reasoning models.DeepSeek is really the first reasoning model that is fairly popular that any of us have access to, he says. OpenAIs o1 model is its closest competitor, but the company doesnt make it open for testing. Instead, he tested it against a model from Meta with the same number of parameters: 70 billion.The prompt asking whether its okay to lie generated a 1,000-word response from the DeepSeek model, which took 17,800 joules to generateabout what it takes to stream a 10-minute YouTube video. This was about 41% more energy than Metas model used to answer the prompt. Overall, when tested on 40 prompts, DeepSeek was found to have a similar energy efficiency to the Meta model, but DeepSeek tended to generate much longer responses and therefore was found to use 87% more energy.How does this compare with models that use regular old-fashioned generative AI as opposed to chain-of-thought reasoning? Tests from a team at the University of Michigan in October found that the 70-billion-parameter version of Metas Llama 3.1 averaged just 512 joules per response.Neither DeepSeek nor Meta responded to requests for comment.Again: uncertainties abound. These are different models, for different purposes, and a scientifically sound study of how much energy DeepSeek uses relative to competitors has not been done. But its clear, based on the architecture of the models alone, that chain-of-thought models use lots more energy as they arrive at sounder answers.Sasha Luccioni, an AI researcher and climate lead at Hugging Face, worries that the excitement around DeepSeek could lead to a rush to insert this approach into everything, even where its not needed.If we started adopting this paradigm widely, inference energy usage would skyrocket, she says. If all of the models that are released are more compute intensive and become chain-of-thought, then it completely voids any efficiency gains.AI has been here before. Before ChatGPT launched in 2022, the name of the game in AI was extractivebasically finding information in lots of text, or categorizing images. But in 2022, the focus switched from extractive AI to generative AI, which is based on making better and better predictions. That requires more energy.Thats the first paradigm shift, Luccioni says. According to her research, that shift has resulted in orders of magnitude more energy being used to accomplish similar tasks. If the fervor around DeepSeek continues, she says, companies might be pressured to put its chain-of-thought-style models into everything, the way generative AI has been added to everything from Google search to messaging apps.We do seem to be heading in a direction of more chain-of-thought reasoning: OpenAI announced on January 31 that it would expand access to its own reasoning model, o3. But we wont know more about the energy costs until DeepSeek and other models like it become better studied.It will depend on whether or not the trade-off is economically worthwhile for the business in question, says Nathan Benaich, founder and general partner at Air Street Capital. The energy costs would have to be off the charts for them to play a meaningful role in decision-making.

On Thursday, Microsoft announced that its rolling OpenAIs reasoning model o1 out to its Copilot users, and now OpenAI is releasing a new reasoning model, o3-mini, to people who use the free version of ChatGPT. This will mark the first time that the vast majority of people will have access to one of OpenAIs reasoning models, which were formerly restricted to its paid Pro and Plus bundles.Reasoning models use a chain of thought technique to generate responses, essentially working through a problem presented to the model step by step. Using this method, the model can find mistakes in its process and correct them before giving an answer. This typically results in more thorough and accurate responses, but it also causes the models to pause before answering, sometimes leading to lengthy wait times. OpenAI claims that o3-mini responds 24% faster than o1-mini.These types of models are most effective at solving complex problems, so if you have any PhD-level math problems youre cracking away at, you can try them out. Alternatively, if youve had issues with getting previous models to respond properly to your most advanced prompts, you may want to try out this new reasoning model on them. To try out o3-mini, simply select Reason when you start a new prompt on ChatGPT.Although reasoning models possess new capabilities, they come at a cost. OpenAIs o1-mini is 20 times more expensive to run than its equivalent non-reasoning model, GPT-4o mini. The company says its new model, o3-mini, costs 63% less than o1-mini per input token However, at $1.10 per million input tokens, it is still about seven times more expensive to run than GPT-4o mini.This new model is coming right after the DeepSeek release that shook the AI world less than two weeks ago. DeepSeeks new model performs just as well as top OpenAI models, but the Chinese company claims it cost roughly $6 million to train, as opposed to the estimated cost of over $100 million for training OpenAIs GPT-4. (Its worth noting that a lot of people are interrogating this claim.)Additionally, DeepSeeks reasoning model costs $0.55 per million input tokens, half the price of o3-mini, so OpenAI still has a way to go to bring down its costs. Its estimated that reasoning models also have much higher energy costs than other types, given the larger number of computations they require to produce an answer.This new wave of reasoning models present new safety challenges as well. OpenAI used a technique called deliberative alignment to train its o-series models, basically having them reference OpenAIs internal policies at each step of its reasoning to make sure they werent ignoring any rules.But the company has found that o3-mini, like the o1 model, is significantly better than non-reasoning models at jailbreaking and challenging safety evaluationsessentially, its much harder to control a reasoning model given its advanced capabilities. o3-mini is the first model to score as medium risk on model autonomy, a rating given because its better than previous models at specific coding tasksindicating greater potential for self-improvement and AI research acceleration, according to OpenAI. That said, the model is still bad at real-world research. If it were better at that, it would be rated as high risk, and OpenAI would restrict the models release.