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Pedro Rioss paternal grandparentswere both born in the United States, yet the government forced them to move to Mexico in the 1930s. They were teenagers at the time.Rios, the director of the American Friends Service Committees U.S.-Mexico Border Program, guesses that government officials sent his grandparents on trains to the border, but he doesnt know the story. Neither of them talked about the experience.He said his grandmother seemed to be unable to forgive the part of herself that led her to be expelled from her home country.She despised being Mexican to some extent, Rios said. I think it was because of the discrimination that she lived through.Over its history, the United States has repeatedly worked to exclude and remove people in moments when xenophobic, nativist, and white supremacist voices have swayed public opinion toward fearfrom the exclusion of Chinese immigrants, to the forced removals of Mexicans and Mexican Americans, to the relocation and incarceration of Japanese and Japanese Americans. The result of those efforts was often generational trauma, with elders unable to talk about what they went through, as in the case of Rios family.Now, withpromises of mass deportationfrom the Trump administration, many academics see thathistory poised to repeat itself.Roberto D. Hernndez, a professor of Chicano and Chicana studies at San Diego State University, said the racialization of Mexican and Mexican American people during deportation efforts of the 1930s and 1950s is similar to the messaging from white supremacist groups today.He pointed to aletterthat circulated in Oregon in December calling for white residents to identify and report people they suspect of being undocumented, as part of a coming brown round-up under President Donald Trump. He said it contained the same messages of anti-Mexican racism that buoyed the movement in the 30s.Withreportsof Border Patrol agents carrying out mass arrests in Bakersfield, California, even before the inauguration, fear has grown in immigrant communities. In the days since Trump took office,an increasein immigration arrests is further stoking that anxiety.This kind of fear has long-term generational consequences, said Kevin Johnson, a professor of law and Chicano studies at the University of California Davis.Rios has witnessed that firsthand.Its unfortunate that the politics take precedence over peoples lives and the destruction that separation and forcefully removing people from their homes causes to family, Rios said.Rooted in RacismFrom their earliest appearances, the U.S.s laws, policies, and practices that limited certain nationalities ability to come or to stay were tinged with racist concerns about nonwhite men marrying white women and with fears that immigrants would take jobs away from people born in the United States.In the 1800s, Western states, including California, passed laws limiting Chinese and other Asian nationalities from entering their territories, owning land, and marrying white women. In 1879, Californiasnew constitutionenabled state officials to remove immigrants who they deemed to be detrimental to the well-being of the state.Johnson said vigilante groups also took it upon themselves to scare Chinese residents into leaving. In the 1870s, many Chinese workers lived in Truckee, California, where they helped tunnel through mountains to complete the Transcontinental Railroad.One night in 1876, a group of white vigilantes went to the homes of some Chinese workers in that town and set them on fire. As the cabins burned, the vigilantes shot the people who fled, killing one.The vigilantes were tried for murder and acquitted by an all white jury, Johnson said. The group later received a cannon salute in celebration, and one of the members went on to become the towns constable. The incident became known as the Trout Creek Outrage.Now theres basically no Chinese presence in the town of Truckee, Johnson said.In May of 1882, Congress codified these fears into law by passing the Chinese Exclusion Act, which banned Chinese people from immigrating to the United States for 10 years. Officials built a prison onAngel Islandin San Francisco to detain arriving Chinese immigrants.The ban was later extended, and as immigration laws evolved in the United States, lawmakers continued to find ways to keep most Asian nationalities out until a major change in immigration law in1965.Its been often forgotten in California that our citizens as well as our government as well as the federal government engaged in these horrible acts, Johnson said.Mass DeportationsWith the onset of the Great Depression, state and local officials blamed Mexican immigrants, who had previously been welcomed during the labor shortages of World War I, said Hernndez, the San Diego State University professor.Back then, Hernndez said, the anti-immigrant rhetoric was purely economic. He said thats different from the Trump administrations tactics, which have usedcriminalizationin addition to economic complaints to vilify immigrants.Though the federal government will lead deportation efforts under the Trump administration, the plans include deputizing local law enforcement to assist and pulling in military or National Guard for support. Hernndez and Johnson both worry that these plans hearken back to practices in the 1930s and 1950s that sawU.S. citizens deported alongside immigrants.In the 1930s, local authorities, including police, rounded up people believed to be Mexican andsent them south. Most were taken away on trains and ships, Hernndez said.I remember the big cattle boats coming down from Los Angeles, shipping Mexicans back to Mexico, Herb Ibarra, then principal of San Diego High School, told TheSan Diego Unionnewspaper in 1979. My mother knew that a relative of ours was on one of the boats, so she took me with her to San Diego Harbor. I wont ever forget the boats, the humanity packed onto the decks under armed guard.The state and local officials leading the effort didnt put deportees through a formal process, Johnson said.There were no hearings. There was no due process, Johnson said. A lot of [U.S.] citizens were removed as well as immigrants.Some chose to self-deport, he said, including the family of former California Supreme Court JusticeCruz Reynoso, who was born in Orange County. Johnson said he worries that the fear inspired by Trumps rhetoric will similarly push families to leave on their own.In 1954, the federal government under the guidance of then-President Dwight Eisenhower led a second push to remove Mexicans through an effort that included a racial epithet in its name. This time, Johnson said, the deportations ran more like a military operation, with the National Guard providing some logistical support.During that time, many ended up in Mexicali, where they resettled as farmers, according to Jose Mena, who lives there and coordinates a coalition of migrant shelters.The fear and trauma left behind in the community that remained in the United States were profound.Former state Senator Martha Escutia told a story during her time in office about her father, who was afraid to walk to the corner store without his passport because he lived in Los Angeles during the 1930s and had a darker complexion that could have led police to racially profile him as an immigrant, Johnson recalled.Johnsons own mother, who is Mexican American, told him when he was young that his family was Spanish, even though they went to visit his grandmother in Mexico, he said.It had a lasting impact on the Latino community in Southern California in terms of sense of belonging and identity, Johnson said.Forced MovesMany Japanese Americans know that generational trauma well.During World War II, the U.S. government rounded them up and held them in hastily constructed prison camps. Trump hasindicatedthat he might invoke the same law, the Alien Enemies Act of 1798, as part of his mass deportation plans, and that he will similarly construct facilities to hold people during the removal process.Much as Rioss grandparents didnt talk about their sudden forced moves to Mexico, Erin Tsurumoto Grassi, associate director of Alliance San Diego, an advocacy group for inclusive democracy, said her grandparents didnt say much about their time in U.S. government custody as Japanese American children.Her grandfather turned 12 the day then-President Franklin Roosevelt signedExecutive Order 9066, which led to the relocation and incarceration of more than 120,000 people, including children. Her grandmother was 7 at the time.They remember the dust. They remember a ton of dust, Tsurumoto Grassi said.Dana Ogo Shew, a board member of Amache Alliance, which works to preserve and educate about the history of the Granada Relocation Center, also known as Amache, in Colorado, said that anti-Asian sentiment had been festering long before the Japanese military bombed Pearl Harbor. That hatred included organizedleaguesthat tried for decades to get rid of Japanese people. That, she said, made it easier for the federal government to forcibly remove Japanese people from communities.After the executive order, the military worked with various civilian agencies to identify and move people. In the process, the government created the War Relocation Authority to lead the charge.Tsurumoto Grassi said the removals caused a repeated fracturing of the community. First, the government sent families to assembly centers. Her grandmothers family, she said, was held in a horse stall.Then, they went to long-term holding areas that had been quickly constructed, most in areas withextreme temperatures. Each time they moved, friendships and families were split apart, Tsurumoto Grassi said.The removals also had economic repercussions, Shew said. Some families quickly sold off what they owned before they left, often at prices far below market value. Those who owned property often lost it because they were unable to pay the mortgage. Others had their belongings stolen while they were imprisoned.The amount of loss in terms of dollars, theyve never been able to put a number on it because it would be so hard and so high to calculate, Shew said.Collectively, Shew said, the Japanese American community struggled to overcome the emotional toll in the years after they were allowed to return.They had so much fear and shame and felt like they had done something wrong, Shew said. They were afraid it would happen again, so they didnt talk about it.Not Going QuietlyThe descendants of those held in the prison camps are doing the work now to try to heal the generational trauma, Tsurumoto Grassi said.Though long dormant, the Alien Enemies Act is still on the books. Other immigration laws have changed, adding procedural requirements before someone can be deported, but its not clear whether the changes will be enough to prevent a repeat of the past.Many anticipate that whatever the Trump administration does will end up in legal battles.Its how the courts are going to interpret [the laws] in this context, said Adam Isacson of the human rights advocacy organization Washington Office on Latin America.In 1944, the Supreme Courtdecidedin the case of Fred Korematsu, a Japanese American man represented by the American Civil Liberties Union, that there was military necessity to the forced removals. In 1983, a legal team got the case reopened, and a district court judge overturned Korematsus conviction for violating a military order, but the Supreme Court ruling remains precedent.Descendants of those harmed by U.S. policies of exclusion and forced removal hope that the country can learn from the pattern of misleading and discriminatory information making way for policies that uproot families and cause generational trauma.Lets just not make the same mistakes and get caught up in the same kind of hysteria. I mean, literally, its hysteria, Shew said.She said Japanese Americans have stood by other groups in moments of discrimination and marginalization, and that she expects them to do the same this time.Tsurumoto Grassi said that if the government does return to the tactics of the last century, shes prepared to fight.She learned about what happened to her grandparents after attending a talk in college that brought her to tears.Her search to understand her familys history led her to the Japanese American National Museum in Los Angeles. While there, she could hear a pro-immigrant protest outside, she said. She realized then that she was meant to work in social justice.Weve learned the lessons of what happened, and I dont think were going to let people go quietly into the night anymore, Tsurumoto Grassi said.ByKate Morrissey, Capital & MainThis piece was originally published by Capital & Main, which reports from California on economic, political, and social issues.

You can learn many things from TikTok, like how to make a dense bean salad or how to tell if you have good facial harmony. Now, you can also enroll in college-level courses with TikTok as your classroom. Welcome to HillmanTok University.With Donald Trump busy rolling back DEI initiatives across higher education, dozens of creators are taking matters into their own hands and posting video courses to form a free educational community, with lessons varying from herbalism to gardening to history.Only a week old, HillmanTok is a growing movement with over 400 courses already on offer, all accessible for free. Named after the fictional university from late 1980s to early 1990s sitcom A Different World, the collection of courses are meant to provide an educational experience akin to attending a HBCU (Historically Black Colleges and Universities).The idea for HillmanTok came to Cierra Hinton, a sixth grade teacher in Georgia, when she stumbled across a TikTok video by Leah Barlow, a liberal studies professor at North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University. The video was solely intended for the 35 students enrolled in her Intro to African American Studies class. However, it quickly went viral, gaining an audience of over 4.3 million. Not me scrolling into a lecture hall, one user commented. We have homework due tomorrow!?! Lawd let me catch up and read my syllabus, another added.Inspired by Barlow, other Black professors and educators began sharing their own educational materials on TikTok and Hinton had the idea to pull all of these course offerings under the umbrella HillmanTok. If Barlows class doesnt strike your interest, how about a class in Black economics? Or organic chemistry? Lectures on any of these subjects are delivered in TikTok-length bursts, and in longer sessions over TikTok Live, with an audience of about 16,000 registered users on the HillmanTok official website.As well as courses, the website features a school store that sells T-shirts and issues student IDs. The school song, as voted for by participants, is Kendrick Lamars tv off and their mascot, a black panther. School colors are yellow and maroon in a nod to the original Hillmans University of A Different World.Due to the unwieldy nature of TikTok, its been difficult for Hinton to regulate, with some bad faith actors using the HillmanTok hashtag as a way to monetize their own content and sell merchandise and ebooks. Late last month, the original page to Hillman was hacked and there were outside attempts to have the name trademarked.Despite these bumps in the road, the mission for HillmanTok University remains the same: to provide free education for anyone who wants it.

Local studio Form Us With Love has transformed its waterfront workplace into a bistro for Stockholm Design Week, where visitors can meet, eat and "actually use and test" the furniture on display.The project is the second iteration of Testing Grounds, an installation that Form Us With Love debuted at last year's Stockholm Design Week by reconfiguring its studio as a future workplace prototype.Form Us With Love has transformed its Stockholm studio into a buzzy bistro. Photo courtesy of Form Us With LoveThis year, the space is being used to present design collaborations with lighting manufacturer Blond, furniture brand +Halle and modular shelving specialist String.It was also transformed into a meeting and eating hub to make use of the studio's existing open-plan kitchen, Form Us With Love co-founder Jonas Pettersson told Dezeen.+Halle is debuting its Nest Club Chair"We have this long-term culture of cooking together every Wednesday," he said. "About half a year ago, someone said during that lunch, maybe we should start a restaurant, in the way that you'd say 'maybe we should start a band'.""Then we started talking about what kind of cuisine we would have, what we would be drinking, how we would decorate it," Pettersson continued. "So we thought we would do a prototype for Stockholm Design Week."Clusters of tables and chairs create a restaurant-style experience. Photo courtesy of Form Us With LoveForm Us With Love arranged clusters of white tables and metal Torno chairs, a former collaboration with +Halle, across the studio to provide bistro-style seating for diners. +Halle is debuting its Nest Club Chair an enveloping red armchair that adds pops of colour to the otherwise "austere" space, explained Pettersson.The studio is illuminated by thin, red-accented lighting created with Blond. Called Catena, the customisable lighting components can be both suspended and wall-mounted together or as standalone objects."The idea is that interior designers can play around with single pieces or a system," said Pettersson.Read: Swedish designers doing things that have "never been done before"Form Us With Love clad the central kitchen unit in white-hued perforated metal storage to create a drinks bar. The adaptable storage, called Center Center, was previously created with String and is now available in a series of colours.Considering the decision to present the design collaborations in a functional space where interacting with the pieces is actively encouraged, Pettersson said, "it's nice that you can actually use and test them".Blond lighting and String storage also features in the interior design"Products on podiums are interesting in some ways," he reflected. "But it's interesting to see how people experience things. We can design something, but we can't dictate how it's going to be used. So this place is a testing ground for us to see."Inviting illustrations of wine glasses, food and furniture characterise the studio windows, adding a playful contrast to the utilitarian interiors.The bistro is holding multiple dinners and other events throughout Stockholm Design Week.The photography is by Jonas Lindstrm, unless stated otherwise.Stockholm Design Week 2025is taking place at various locations around the city from 3 to 9 February. To see what's on, visitDezeen Events Guide.The post Form Us With Love turns Stockholm studio into buzzy red bistro appeared first on Dezeen.

The Dezeen team have been reporting live from Stockholm Design Week in the Swedish capital, where office rollercoasters, cardboard cities and leather alternative were on the menu on 6 February.6pm klart slutDezeen's cocktail at the newly opened Stockholm Stadshotell is underway and our editorial team is raising a glass to the end of a busy few days.Dezeen Dispatch is never too far away as it has been all week!Although the real belle of the ball might be these cut-glass Anne Nilsson vases that attendees (and now Dezeen Live readers) can sneak a first peek at.The asymmetrical pieces were created specifically for the hotel by the legendary Swedish glass designer and her newly founded glassworks Nybruk billed as the country's "first design-driven glassworks to open in 100 years".Anne Nilsson has created a vase for Stockholm StadshotellSkl from everyone here in Stockholm! And thanks for following along with our live coverage (klart slut is Swedish for over and out at least I hope it is).Discover what's still happening at Stockholm Design Week on Dezeen Events Guide Dezeen's editorial team enjoys a drink5.30pm fun facts about acneDezeen's Jennifer Hahn has snuck off for a quick tour of the Acne Studios headquarters a hulking brutalist building erected in 1972 by Czech architect Jan Boan that originally served as the Czech embassy in Stockholm and filed the below report.Acne Studios HQ was formerly the Czech embassy in StockholmPlease enjoy these fun facts I gleaned along the way:The Max Lamb stone furniture in the lobby is so heavy it had to be craned in and the building's floor had to be haphazardly reinforced so it wouldn't collapse.Some of Acne's mannequins were modelled on the Daniel Silver sculptures you can see nearby.All 400 employees working across the building are encouraged to eat in the company's own canteen, casually arranged around a wooden sculpture created by Helmut Lang a few years after he retired from fashion design (rumour has it he would quite like to buy it back).The building's top floor originally housed the embassy's living quarters and had tiny windows to prevent Allied Forces from spying on their inhabitants during the Cold War.For some slightly less fun but much more practical information about the renovation of the building, you can revisit our 2019 story on the project.Daniel Silver sculptures are displayed at Acne HQCanteen tables surround a wooden sculpture by ex-fashion designer Helmut LangThe brutalist building has been renovated to reflect Acne's more colourful aestheticColourful stairs!Pink lights and a handbag!Still brutalist. Images by Jennifer Hahn5.10pm dog treatsThe team has met two more design pets! Dante and Aston are rescue dogs from Ireland whose humans are design practice All Matters Studio.Dante, or possibly Aston, enjoying the All Matters Studio takeover of a flower shopThe dogs were hanging out at the brand's Sder flower shop takeover, where it was showing its green-marble table as well as a matching speaker made with Transparent. Cajsa CarlsonAston, or possibly Dante, said hello to members of the Dezeen teamFind out more on Dezeen Events Guide about All Matters Studio flower shop takeover All Matters Studio's green marble table makes for a statement feature in the little flower shopIn a departure from their usually, ahem, transparent designs, Transparent have collaborated with All Matters Studio on a speaker using green marble5pm rugs in windowsDezeen's Max Fraser has been to see the window displays of established department store NK on busy Hamngatan, which have been dedicated to the Made in Sweden and Together 2025 project.Together is an annual initiative by NK Interiors which celebrates the strength of Swedish design. This year, they joined forces with Swedish rug brand Kasthall.The windows of NK have been used as an exhibition space for the projectEstablished designers including Jonas Bohlin, Monica Frster, Lisa Hilland and Pia Walln have created textile items specifically for the display. Where is the younger talent?A whole window was devoted to scholarship-winner Lukas Carpelan's rugsGiven pride of place in the window this year is scholarship winner Lukas Carpelan. His textile designs reference the landscape of Havng in southern Sweden and the soft landscape found there.Another neat stack of Dezeen Dispatch pops up in a suitably design-y spot of Stockholm. Images by Max FraserMeanwhile, inside the department store, Dezeen Dispatch was spotted displayed atop a Piet Hein Eek table in the interiors department!Find out more on Dezeen Events Guide 4.30pm life is a rollercoasterWhile design week might be an emotional rollercoaster for some, deputy editor Cajsa Carlson took things a step further and went on an actual rollercoaster!The great Exhibition have installed a functional rollercoaster in their officeTrying out creative studio The Great Exhibition's60-metre-long rollercoaster The Frontal Lobe, Carlson enjoyed feeling the wind in her hair as she took the sharp turns in the chrome, capsule-shaped train.Images by Cajsa Carlson4.00pm more lamps and vasesPaola Bjringer, curator and founder of womxn design collective Misschiefs, has turned her home into a gallery, writes Dezeen design editor Jennifer Hahn.There, amidst the clutter of her own life, her personal design collection and her son's action figures, she has displayed work by six Swedish designers based around the theme of upcycling.Kajsa Willner's Craft Punk Vases are displayed in Paola Bjringer's homeIn Bjringer's bedroom, there's a lace quilt by textile designer Anna Nordstrm made from "generations of lace textiles from Paola's family".Anna Nordstrm made a lace quilt from Bjringer's family archive.Image by Sanna Lindberg"When Paola asked me to work with her family's lace archive I was excited but a little scared," Nordstrm said. "It wasn't going to be the first time I have cut and stabbed into a collection of textile heirlooms, but this was the first time it was not my own family's belongings."The everyday, if very design-friendly, domestic setting includes Bjringer's Michel Ducaroy-designed Togo sofa"If we don't use our archives, what's the point? All those untouched boxes in the attic."Meanwhile, Kajsa Willner's Craft Punk Vases and Sara Szyber's Reclaim armchairs in the living room are both made from reclaimed waste wood.Images by Jennifer Hahn unless otherwise stated"Do we really need more lamps or vases?" Bjringer questioned. "What we need are spaces that encourage conversations about the state of the world."Find out more on Dezeen Events Guide 3.30pm material innovationFollowing on from the amadou entry below (2.30pm), Amy Frearson has zoomed out for this report on how a wave of radical designers in Sweden are experimenting with digital technology and alternative materials to invent new ways of making furniture.Read: Swedish designers doing things that have "never been done before"3.00pm going once, going twiceA 1950s cabinet by mid-century Danish designer Hans J Wegner retailing for a cool 2.4 million is among the pieces that architects Claesson Koivisto Rune have pulled from the Jackson Design archives for Stockholm Design Week.The exhibition features rare design pieces, which are for sale from Jackson Design archivesTheir Aiiro exhibition brings together lesser-known products created by some of the most important designers of the 20th century, including a one-off table that Poul Henningsen designer of the PH lamp created for a friend (which at 1.6 million looks downright affordable next to the Wegner). Jennifer HahnThe idea of the exhibition was to display pieces that "you will never see again""Usually, you as journalists and other people who come here, you see a lot of contemporary design," said CKR co-founder Eero Koivisto. "So we thought, wouldn't it be nice to see 35-40 pieces that you will never see again?"The exhibition runs until 29 March"These projects will probably be sold to people around the world. So this is a once-in-a-lifetime chance to see them all in one room."Find out more on Dezeen Events Guide Images by Jennifer Hahn2.30pm amadou you know about me?Over the past few years, a slew of materials companies have used highly engineered, complicated processes to coax mycelium and bacterial cellulose into something resembling leather."Something resembling leather", made from a material called amadouFinnish designer Mari Koppanen has gone in the opposite direction and looked to the past for answers which she found in amadou, a suede-like material derived from tinder fungus that has been used to make clothes and hats for hundreds of years.Mari Koppanen's Kp exhibition is on show at the Nordiska Museet"In the small mountain village of Corund in Romania, which used to have the largest community of amadou artisans, only a few people now still have the skills to work with the material," Koppanen said.Amadou has been used for design objects from bowls to seats to lamps. Images by Jennifer HahnHer Kp exhibition at Nordiska Museet hopes to revive the craft by adapting it to create a range of modern design objects ranging from bowls and mushroom-shaped seats to lamps made from a composite of amadou offcuts that resembles cork and is held together by natural cellulose glue. Jennifer HahnNordiska Museet is on an island in central Stockholm1.45pm Jenny Nordberg for SoecoAmy Frearson has written up her visit to lvsj Grd the section of Stockholm Furniture Fair dedicated to limited-edition design and gallery pieces where she focussed on a collection of office furniture by Swedish designer Jenny Nordberg with Soeco.Read: Jenny Nordberg creates office furniture from "library" of unwanted parts1.30pm truth zeekrEarlier today in the Stockholm showroom of electric car brand Zeekr, Dezeen deputy editor Cajsa Carlson conducted a conversation with Chris Martin of Massproductions and Delphine Mac, Zeekr's chief interior designer.Dezeen's Cajsa Carlson (centre) moderates a discussion about the interior design of carsThey explored the influence of domestic furniture in the design of car interiors, something the brand has developed for its Zeekr Mix vehicle.The car, not yet available in Europe, is on display and explores the concept of a mobile living room, where the front seats swivel to face the back seats and "homely comfort" is prioritised.The Zeekr Mix vehicle's front seats swivel to face the back seatsMassproductions have a display for their new Astro chair as part of an installation called "sculptures from the factory". Max FraserChris Martin of Massproductions looks at the brands new Astro chair design. Images by Max Fraser1.20pm on the hoofI've taken my noble steed (Lime scooter) to Djurgrden island, where Finnish designer Mari Koppanen is exhibiting at Nordiska Museet. More on that in a bit! Jennifer HahnFind out more on Dezeen Events Guide in the meantime Ride safe, Jen!1.00pm lunch breakIt's lunch time for deputy editor Cajsa Carlson, who chose to work from one of her favourite places in Stockholm this morning: Kungliga Biblioteket, Sweden's national library, which is open to the public and located in a 19th-century building in the fancy stermalm part of town. It's a great quiet place to work or study.Kungliga Biblioteket Sweden's national libraryIt also has an excellent and well-priced restaurant in its basement where you can get the lunch of the day. Today, Carlson chose the Danish-style fried cod with remoulade sauce the Scandinavian equivalent of tartar sauce which provided a much-needed energy boost for day four of design week.Remoulade sauce is the Scandinavian equivalent of tartar sauce. Images by Cajsa Carlson12.45pm second pourTrailed in this live coverage yesterday (5.00pm entry), you can now read Jane Englefield's full write up of the terrazzo beer taps and their environs at the Bobo showroom the work of designer Gustav Winsth.Read: Gustav Winsth designs tavern-style showroom for glassware brand Bobo12.30pm trend for hairy thingsSeveral designers have had hair on the brain this Stockholm Design Week, Dezeen design editor Jennifer Hahn writes, with several projects across the city incorporating synthetic strands.In the home of collector Paola Bjringer, Botswana-born artist Ayesha Quraishi exhibited a metal sculpture decorated with hair pieces, while South African designer Nkuli Mlangeni-Berg and Konstfack student Anna Babenko showed an installation made from colourful braids for the Plastic Perspectives exhibition at the Stockholm Furniture Fair.Ellen Aduofua Bernardsson's tapestry is woven from hair extensionsNearby, Swedish-Ghanaian designer Ellen Aduofua Bernardsson (who's among our six emerging designers to watch) exhibited a tapestry woven from hair extensions."The ritual of tending to someone's hair is intimate and caring and takes time, like working with any craft," she told Dezeen.Images by Ellen Aduofua Bernardsson12.00pm burn lace in SdermalmAnd in another report from last night, Dezeen's editor-at-large Amy Frearson writes: Stockholm interiors don't get much better than the house where I spent the evening.Built in 1889, the Sdermalm residence has been preserved in its original grandeurLocally based design duo Frg & Blanche teamed up brands Vitra and Artek to host a dinner in an ornate residence in Sdermalm.The home has been in Emma Marga Blanche's family for four generationsBuilt in 1889, the striking home has belonged to Emma Marga Blanche's family for four generations.Eagle-eyed Dezeeen readers may recognise it as the venue for Frg & Blanche's 2019 exhibition The Baker's House.Frg & Blanche's Burn Lace lights are made from heat-treated polyester feltThe showpiece of the evening was Frg & Blanche's Burn Lace, a tactile lighting collection made from heat-treated polyester felt, although guests were also treated to a spot of piano playing from Fredrick Frg.11.30am Dezeen Awards 2025 is goLast night we celebrated the launch of Dezeen Awards 2025, kicking off with a panel on "design that matters", followed by Campari spritz paired with Dezeen Dispatch at Nordiska Galleriet.The panel discussion moderated by Dezeen's Max Fraser (that's the back of his head just above the DJ decks!) preceded a party to launch Dezeen Awards 2025"I'm tired of talking about dead designers" said Mirkku Kullberg rom Kasthall and Glasshouse Helsinkiin the panel discussion about respecting designers legacies whilst making space for newness and innovation.Campari spritz and Dezeen Dispatch at the end of Wednesday in Stockholm. Images by Jennifer HahnModerated by Dezeen's editorial director Max Fraser, the panel included Kullberg, Front's Sofia Lagerkvist,and Johan Oscarson from Elding Oscarson, who were winners of Dezeen Awards 2024 cultural project of the year. Clara FinniganEnter Dezeen Awards today 11.00am cardboard cityHow much can you build with cardboard? London-based design studio Hunting & Narud set out to answer that question with its exhibition design for Flokk, the workplace furniture manufacturer and parent company for brands including Offecct, HG and Profim.Flokk's signature logo spelled out in cardboard shapesDezeen editor-at-large Amy Frearson dropped by the stand at Stockholm Furniture Fair, where she discovered house-shaped meeting rooms, partitions made from cardboard tubes and a bar with a zigzagging backdrop.Meeting rooms were styled with the outline of a pitched-roof house in cardboardPartition walls rendered in cardboard tubing. Images by Amy Frearson10.30am the trees have eyesThe forest is taking over at surfaces company Cosentino's Stockholm showroom!The plants are planted directly into the floorDesigner Monica Frster has created an interior where plants and pine trees are planted into the floor using a synthetic soil made from waste material from Cosentino's own production.Lush vegetation contrasts sleek stone surfacesThe result is an unusually eye-catching showroom with a natural vibe, where the green plants create a Scandinavian feel and contrast against Cosentino's sleek stone surfaces. And where other than in Stockholm would you have a forest-feeling showroom? Cajsa CarlsonThe planting is positioned throughout the showroom. Images by Cajsa Carlson10.00am wild at heartThe sun has come out in Stockholm! As reports from last night's festivities trickle in, catch up on everything that happened yesterday.Furniture is on display upholstered in the Wild at Heart collectionDezeen's Jennifer Hahn took a trip to the Kvadrat showroom, where textile brand Sahaco is presenting its 2025 collection in an installation themed "Wild at Heart".The installation is taking place at the Kvadrat showroom in StockholmThe collection was largely informed by the designs of the late Austrian artist Franz West, and includes three upholsteries and seven drapery fabrics.Sahaco describe the collection as "daring and poetic". Images by Jennifer HahnCheck out what happened on Tuesday and Wednesdayat Stockholm Design Week.See Dezeen Events Guide for all the latest information you need to know to attend the event, as well as a list of other architecture and design events taking place around the world.All times are Stockholm time.The lead image is by Jennifer Hahn.The post Thursday from Stockholm Design Week 2025 appeared first on Dezeen.

Computer mice arent exactly the most comfortable products to use despite how critical they are to computers. Some laptop owners even prefer using a mouse instead of the built-in trackpad, even if it means bringing along a bulky item. Yes, there are ergonomic mouse designs, but the majority of them wouldnt even fit in your pocket, let alone a very slim briefcase.The ergonomic problem becomes even worse with portable wireless mice because theyre often designed to be flat and thin to make them easy to carry around. There are a few creative designs that have them fold or twist to switch between flat and angled bodies, but theyre only comfortable to use for a short period of time. This smart mouse design offers a curious solution to that problem by actually splitting the mouse into two, allowing you to use the form thats best for the occasion.Designer: Smart Mouse CoThe Air Nova mouse looks like an odd yet also familiar mouse, one with a bulging back thats typical of these devices. The oddity is the gaping hole in the middle where the optical sensors or ball would normally be, making you wonder how it works. In reality, the mouse isnt this whole contraption but is actually only the front rectangular part where all the action happens.Air Nova is actually a small rectangular box with a multi-touch surface that you pair with a computer to use like a regular Bluetooth mouse. That ergonomic base is actually removable but it is essential to its operation. When magnetically attached to it, you can move the Air Nova around your desk and click like a regular mouse, though it also accepts touch gestures similar to an Apple Magic Mouse.Detach that puck from the base, though, and Air Nova transforms into a wireless remote for your computer, practically a trackpad you hold in your hand. It uses a different set of gestures to flip through slides and whatnot, and it has a laser pointer to guide your captive audience to your points. Curiously, it also functions as a voice recorder for taking notes, an added feature that may or may not make sense for a portable mouse.Thanks to its detachable design, you can keep the bulky base and the actual mouse in separate compartments in your bag. When you need a traditional and ergonomic mouse, simply connect the two pieces together, but you can still control your computer in presentation mode without that base. Its not a perfect solution, of course, but short of shape-shifting vertical mice, its probably the closest we can get for now.The post Modular wireless mouse and presenter has a curious ergonomic design first appeared on Yanko Design.

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MacworldPeople write in with mysteries all the time. One is why their Mac (and sometimes other devices) will seemingly connect to a Wi-Fi network just fine but not be able to access the internet via that connection. They know the password and network are both correct: they have other devices, like an iPhone, connected without a problem.The culprit is usually a firewall or VPN. Most people no longer use firewall software, even though macOS continues to offer it as an available feature in System Settings > Network. Apples is largely anapplicationfirewall, one that allows apps to communicate in and out, rather than anetworkone that can be configured to block incoming addresses, connections to certain internet ports on your computer, and other activities. (This is available from the command line in macOS, however.)If you use a third-party firewall that blocks traffic and cant connect to the internet after making a valid Wi-Fi connection, check its rules and configuration. You may need to disable it for a moment or enable an option that prompts you to allow a new network configuration before proceeding.Its more likely that you have a VPN (virtual private network) enabled for work, school, or personal protection. A VPN creates an encrypted tunnel between your device and some other point on the Internet, which may be inside a corporate or academic networks firewall or in a data center when youre using a VPN you pay for as a service.The trouble isnt the VPN but the VPNs ability to connect. When you connect to Wi-Fi, your VPN settings may have the service try to connect with its counterpart at the other end of the tunnel. If it cant make that connection, it can appear that you have no internet connection.The solution is to either disable or remove the VPN. Depending on the VPNs settings, you may be able to just flip its switch off; in some cases, you may need to disable an option that has it try to always make a VPN connection as soon as you connect to a network. VPN settings are located in Settings (iOS/iPadOS) or System Settings (macOS) at the top level if enabled or in Network. Configurations may be nested under VPN & Filters, depending on your version of the operating system.You can remove a VPN configuration by clicking or tapping the i (info) icon to the right of its name, clicking or tapping Remove Configuration, and confirming the operation. In iOS or iPadOS, you can also go to Settings > General > VPN & Device Management, select the VPNs profile, tap Remove Profile, and confirm.This Mac 911 article is in response to a question submitted by Macworld reader Ken.Ask Mac 911Weve compiled a list of the questions we get asked most frequently, along with answers and links to columns:read our super FAQto see if your question is covered. If not, were always looking for new problems to solve! Email yours tomac911@macworld.com, including screen captures as appropriate and whether you want your full name used. Not every question will be answered; we dont reply to emails, and we cannot provide direct troubleshooting advice.