Among the Reflections, Studio Mumbai tells us how an emergency solution suggested by a site manager to make the drawings resist the difficult monsoon climate has become their practice. Roel De Ridder, Mela Zuljevic and Liesbeth Huybrechts tell us about the evolutionary stages of participatory design and explain why technology today plays an important role in fostering civic engagement. Ben Lerner explores the theme of the transformation of architecture into nature, of interiors into exteriors, using the books he read to his daughters during the pandemic. Digging into the Domus archives, Fulvio Irace re-examines the paradoxes of Richard Rogers’ London Lloyd’s complex, “a ‘monument’ to the last heroic season of militant Modernism”.

In this month’s Diary, pages dedicated to current events, Marco Petroni tells us about the need to reconfigure places and ways of working: a question of primary importance that opens up possibilities and spaces of intervention for designers. Loredana Mascheroni writes about the thirteenth edition of Manifesta, a nomadic art biennial. In the section dedicated to art, Valentina Petrucci analyzes the work of the young artist Pietro Quattriglia Venneri, animated by the mantra “Sniffing, chasing, buying”. Silvana Annichiarico continues with the selection of three emerging talents in the world of design. The editorial director Walter Mariotti concludes the section with the Coffee Break column, in a conversation with Riccardo Donadon, founder of H-Farm and since 2013 he is on the advisory board of Ca’ Foscari University.