Ancient Leaks

Early engineering, lost techniques, and the scientific intelligence of past civilizations to understand how innovation has evolved through deep time.

  • The Grid Just Died: a Backpack to Stay Powered

    The Grid Just Died: a Backpack to Stay Powered

    Just imagine one day you wake up and the electricity grid is off, nothing works. The lights are cold. The fight is on, but you are ready.

  • Metro Urban Museum, Peeta

    Metro Urban Museum, Peeta

    I’ve always believed that public space is the most powerful—and most overlooked—canvas for cultural transformation. Not the sterile kind of culture locked behind velvet ropes, but something alive, integrated into our everyday lives. That was the path that took me to MUM – Metro Urban…

  • Pyramids: Cosmic Pins & Backups for Visitors

    Pyramids: Cosmic Pins & Backups for Visitors

    Tectonically stable Giza was chosen to outlast any cataclysm, the pyramids engineered not as shrines but as indestructible backup nodes.

  • The Emotional Architecture of Luis Barragán

    The Emotional Architecture of Luis Barragán

    I’m inspired by a simple yet profound idea: our environments should resonate with our emotions, adapting to our needs in real-time. This isn’t a new concept—Luis Barragán, the iconic Mexican architect, was a master of what he called “emotional architecture.” Barragán designed spaces that didn’t…

  • Twist Reality Over a River in Norway

    Twist Reality Over a River in Norway

    An hour north of Oslo, a silver form twists mid-air over a dark Norwegian river. Part bridge, part museum, part sculpture.

  • Calcultating Empires in Milan

    Calcultating Empires in Milan

    The exhibition “Calculating Empires, A Genealogy of Technology and Power, 1500-2025” curated by researchers Kate Crawford and Vladan Joler at the Osservatorio of Fondazione Prada in Milan, exemplifies a focused inquiry into the current technological landscape, particularly artificial intelligence. The exhibition, 23 Nov 2023 –…

  • PALMS ON MARS, Jacquard Tapestry

    PALMS ON MARS, Jacquard Tapestry

    PALMS ON MARS, 2018 Jacquard Tapestry: 100% cotton yarn. Unique: one of a kind piece, created by the artist.

  • Curatorial Insight: Rae Martini’s ‘Ghetto Landscapes’

    Curatorial Insight: Rae Martini’s ‘Ghetto Landscapes’

    Urban Aesthetic Realism in balance between Expressionist Informal Painting and Calligraphic Sign – Lodovico Minelli Sarteri, 2011 Rae Martini’s “Ghetto landscapes” pictorial series moves towards the search for an aesthetic realism linked to places, lived or passing, scattered in the great contemporary metropolises. Visual microcosms,…