FRAME Issue 163 – Designing for Longevity

In FRAME Issue 163, explore how today’s most innovative designers, architects, and cultural institutions are redefining longevity in design. From timeless lighting and products that consider their entire life cycle, to adaptable architecture and second-life timber, this issue highlights creative practices shaping a more sustainable and enduring future.

Discover museums that both preserve the past and imagine the future, affordable housing solutions for ageing populations, and AI tools that safeguard architectural heritage. Gain insight into slow hospitality concepts that frame time itself as the ultimate luxury.

Learn from experts in Indigenous, nature-based technologies about how reviving traditional solutions can help us tackle the climate crisis while inspiring resilient design for generations to come. Be moved by cross-disciplinary projects that question our relationship with time, sustainability, and even mortality.