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What does a Latin designer’s work need to look like to be considered “Latin”? 🤔

For Peruvian-born, Brooklyn-based designer Hazel Villena, the answer isn’t so simple.

At Wanted Design during New York Design Week, Villena unveiled the Bean Lamp — an object that feels part creature, part machine. 👽✨ A cast-metal body supports a soft, matte disc of light, while its legs act less like a base and more like a stance. As she puts it: “It is designed to hold its own character before it does its job.”

Despite New York’s reputation as an open-minded creative hub, Villena says there’s still a subtle expectation placed on Latin designers.

“There’s an increasing expectation that work by Latin designers should look visibly Latin,” she explains. Bright colours, familiar motifs, traditional materials — if those references aren’t immediately present, designers can find themselves labelled as “not Latin enough” or drawn into conversations that focus more on identity than the object itself.

Yet Villena approaches the issue with remarkable clarity. The challenge, she says, is often less cultural than structural. As an independent designer funding her own production without institutional backing, she faces the same realities as many emerging creatives today.

💡 “Latin designers have been shaping global design for a long time,” she says. “The shift isn’t that we’re new, but how we are being incorporated into the global discourse.”

Her background informs how she thinks and creates, even when it isn’t explicitly visible in the final object.

And perhaps that’s what makes the Bean Lamp so compelling. It isn’t trying to perform an identity. It simply exists on its own terms.

“What feels encouraging,” Villena says, “is that work like the Bean Lamp is increasingly being read on its concept and craft first, with the designer’s background as part of how the work is understood rather than how it’s introduced.”

✨ A small shift, maybe. But an important one!

Photos and videos by Hazel Villena @makerhazel

#lamp #lightingdesign #latindesigner #newyork #nycxdesign @wanteddesign

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ICFF: Wanted Launch Pad

Presented with media partner Dwell Magazine, is an international platform for emerging designers to introduce new concepts and showcase prototypes of furniture, home accessories, and lighting.

The best place for manufacturers to meet new designers, discover fresh ideas and potential products to develop.

Each of the two categories, Furniture/Home Accessories and Lighting, features international pre-selected design studios and independent designers.

Sponsored by American Standard. Presented with WantedDesign and media partner Dwell Magazine

Source: ICFF

#ICFF #ICFFWanted #LaunchPadICFF #DwellMagazine

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The Bean Lamp by Brooklyn-based designer Hazel Villena is a lighting object that explores the line between functional design and creature-like form. Developed around a sculptural metal body and illuminated disc, the lamp uses curved structural elements that intentionally resemble limbs, creating an ambiguous silhouette. Constructed from cast copper, polycarbonate, and aluminum, the project reflects an interest in form, perception, and objects that challenge straightforward interpretation.

Designer: @makerhazel

For submissions, collaborations, or creative services: hello@theeditmag.com
#TheEditMagazine

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We are excited to announce that Lola Ben-Alon and the Natural Materials Lab are selected as a winner of Dirty, the 43rd cycle of the annual @archleague Prize for Young Architects + Designers!

The 2024 competition theme, Dirty, asked entrants to “look beyond their presentations of professionalism, respectability, and expertise:” Dirt, or dirt-ness, is a fundamental element within the design, scholarly research, and teaching at the Natural Materials Lab. Stemming from a geo-material scholarship, our work not only speculates on the future of earthen construction through digital and
geotechnical possibilities, but also asks to deeply bathe, bodily speaking, in earth materials as wearable items and ingestible substances. We confront dichotomies between ‘high-tech’ and ‘low-tech’ design methodologies, working with materials that are rooted in our collective embodied experiences and histories.

This year’s League Prize programming and exhibition will follow a hybrid onsite and online model. The lecture series will be held online at midday on Thursdays starting June 13 on Zoom. Professor Ben-Alon will host the first lecture with Strat Coffman (@bagstrat) moderated by Rodrigo Escandón Cesarman (@aprdelesp).

Thank you to the amazing people at the Natural Materials lab who helped make this work come to life. Specifically, the images shown: the [EAT ME BUILD ME] project, exhibited at the 2022 Tallinn Architecture Biennial with Sharon Yavo Ayalon (@shayavo) and curated by Lydia Kallipoliti (@lydiakallipoliti)and Areti Markopoulou, with the assistance of student Hazel @Villena (@makerhaze); The Soil Garments with lab assistant Penmai Chongtoua (@senseimai)

This year’s winners are:
Lola Ben-Alon — The Natural Materials Lab, @naturalmaterialslab
Chase Galis, Christina Moushoul, Sonia Sobrino Ralston — Office Party, @office.party
Erik Carranza — Anonima, @sa_anonima
Strat Coffman, @bagstrat
Rayshad Dorsey, Joseph James, Diego Zubizarreta Otero, Julian Owens, Michael Urueta — Partners of Place (PoP), @partnersofplace
Leah Wulfman, @leahlippp

Image 1: @pentagramdesign
Image 2: Tõnu Tunnel @tonutunnel
Image 3: Yunha Choi for the Natural Materials Lab @naturalmaterialslab

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Congratulations to my graduating Core I students from Fall 2019!!! You spent so long online after that semester and I'm exceedingly grateful for our time in person together!

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Get caught in a web 🕸

Check out @ColumbiaGSAPP's art installation (@GSAPPWEB) from this spring's seminar, "The Outside Project," led by Laurie Hawkinson (@smithmiller_hawkinson) and Galia Solomonoff (@solomonoffarchitecture). The pavilion will be on view through early June, hovering in the plaza by Avery, Fayerweather, and Schermerhorn halls.

📷 #ColumbiaPhotoOfTheWeek by Hazel Villena (GSAPP'22)#ColumbiaUniversity

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] Project: Vibran Node – Housing Complex
] By: Cohaul Guohao Chen @necrohavl + Hazel Villena @makerhazel

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Imagine a journey of spirituality through the landscape, following bodies of water, mountain and cave; pausing to breathe and pray in a seamlessly natural space. The rural mosque is fragmented as spaces onto the natural topography, and through these low-tech interventions, one might rediscover new experiences of reconnecting with the divine through the earth.

Partner in crime @makerhazel
Adv IV Studio Ziad Jamaleddine

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Imagine a place of worship choreographing all natural elements to directly connect with the land. Imagine traveling through a sacred landscape of trees, rocks and raised earth, deeply connecting micro to macro cosmic aspects of spirituality and Sufi rituals. Here, we show the three journeys we imagine on the site: prayer spaces, animal and land care, and community empowerment.

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Advanced IV Ziad Jamaleddine, Spring 2021
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• HOUSING COMPLEX •
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