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Dashi Diner: Food and Purpose

TRANG TA

In 2022, Thu Thuy Pham and Phuong Thao Westphal, two friends of Vietnamese-German backgrounds, opened the doors to their Berlin diner DASHI. Within a short time, the diner has established itself as a popular destination for Berlin foodies and has now grown a reputation that goes far beyond the German capital.

Food

Issue 3

My Dojo: David Zilber

What's that one practice that has changed your life that you can share with us? It was a piece of advice I didn’t quite understand at the age of 18, in cooking school. It was delivered by this absolute dinosaur of a chef,

Food

Issue X

Tiempo de Zafra

Sophia Valera Heinecke

The holistic beauty of the beaches, like the life of most artists, like the environment of Santo Domingo, is a patchwork crafted with intention – the intention to survive and the intention to realize what was once just a dream.

Fashion

Issue 3

Seize The Day Like A Stoic

Ryan Holiday

Philosophy

Issue X

Hannah Dunkelberg

What are you the most proud of in your space? The studio itself. What’s that one practice that has changed your life that you want to share with us? Art.

Art

Issue 2

Hannah Kuhlmann

How are you able to create your most authentic quality work? Furniture are objects which have a direct contact to our bodies in everyday life, unlike art on walls or objects in shelves. They usually get less attention and are reduced to their function, but like everything else they carry messages

Design

Issue X

Anna Santangelo

What are you the most proud of in your space? The community of friends and creatives that exist in our studio. When someone leaves, it’s always a process to find someone new, but it is something that is super important for the balance and energy to feel right in the space.

Fashion

Issue X

Volodymyr Sannikov

What are you the most proud of in your space? I think it’s models of climbing holds that I’ve made, of course not all of them, but some I really like. And there’s a lot of space to improve, so I hope there will be more interesting holds or even sets.

Starting

Issue X

Tom Król

Where and how are you able to create your most authentic, highest quality work? I think that the artistic practice is one that has many phases: moments of reflection; places where the production process finds its peaks of concentration or focus. My studio is an essential place where a lot of things come together, then start to form into something new and where this ‘new’ is actually possible.

Art

Issue 1

The Analogue Comeback

Frank Berzbach

Ever since the introduction of the personal computer into our homes during the 80s, digitization has become more and more integrated into our daily lives: telephone booths, alarm clocks, wristwatches and calendars have been replaced by smartphones; vcrs, tape recorders and turntables have made way for streaming services; typewriters...

Philosophy

Issue 3

Making Friends With Our Fears

Anne-Laure Le Cunff

When we grow up, we are told to be strong; to fight our fears, our nightmares, our doubts; to be confident and ambitious. The admonition we receive is not without consequences. As adults, fear becomes a personal burden not to be shared with others, lest it starts spreading…

Fear

Issue 2

Learning from Lina

Pia Brückner

Architecture

Issue 2

Know Thyself

Dennis Freischlad

We speak in abstractions and symbols, and we speak in vain. Each word marks the very loss of what is meant to be said, each wanting-to-speak is altering the ever-name-less into a world of language and form.

Philosophy

Issue X

Samma Samādhi

Frank Berzbach

There is only one moment in the creative process when our thoughts should digress in a cultivated way: in the “incubation phase.” This is the first phase after we have received an assignment and are still have a distance from the problem. Under time pressure, this is not easy at all: not yet looking for concrete solutions to the problem, while sending the mind on its way.

Philosophy

Issue X

Making in Movies

Jascha Hannover

Frida Kahlo (Salma Hayek) is broken. Her body has been shattered in a bus accident, a metal rod has pierced her pelvis, and the doctors have barely succeeded in saving her life. She has been bed-bound for weeks, trapped in a full body cast with very little movement...

Art

Issue X

Enchanted Embodiment

Ben Roth

Despite the many theories about the nature of reality, what I experience as most real, is being a creature with a body. Being Here means arriving in this animal body, acknowledging my corporeality fully, feeling it as deeply as I can. Being Now means participating in this continuous process of life as it unfolds within, and all around; witnessing it in all aspects and subtleties as it takes form in the endless moment of Right Now.

Philosophy

Issue X

Running Through Isolation

Intisar Abdul-Kader

It is 8pm on the 23rd of March 2020 and I was glued to my TV screen watching the Prime Minister address the nation… lockdown will be starting in the UK to help combat the effects of the Covid-19 pandemic in the National Health Service (NHS)

Starting

Issue 2

No Such Thing As A Fresh Start

Oliver Burkeman

The big lure of all such moments — as you’ll know if you have a similar weakness for time management systems, decluttering initiatives and suchlike — is the promise of making a fresh start.

Philosophy

Issue X

The Art of Touch

Brooklyn Reardon-Nikara

Growing up as an Indigenous Māori in Aotearoa/New Zealand, I was subject to a society dominated by white European/Pākehā culture. With a mixed whakapapa (family history) that included both the colonized and the colonizers, I felt a tension between my inner- and outer-worlds that remained dormant for a long time...

Philosophy

Issue 3

The Flower of Life

Cong Le Tran & Sonja Pham

Based on Cong Le Tran’s Vietnamese roots and upbringing in Germany, he carries two worlds within himself in the best sense. They guided him throughout his quest to find a unique creative voice. Even more so as a 1980s kid, experiencing a significant turning point: The beginning of the internet era. With this rich potential of innovative ideas stemming from the analog and digital world and his practice of Buddhism...

Design

Issue 3

The Jean Genie: Story of a Denim Lover

Liselotte Girard

My favorite trousers are not Levi‘s yet Georges, the founder of Maverick Repair Jeans in Paris and a true aficionado for 501s agrees to see it for consultation. After a diagnosis, he heads for the back of his shop. Slaloming between piles of previously pampered jeans, he opens the doors of his workshop to me. At first glance, it may seem a little cramped. It contains years of archives, works, and fabrics, as well as three sewing machines, one of which is an old leather workshop reformer.

Fashion

Issue 3

Dare to be Eternal: Oliver Urman

Hugo Hoppmann, Sarah Discours

Stepping into Olivier’s home atelier you enter a universe where elegance meets the raw and unconventional. Here, every detail is intentional, and every moment is infused with pleasure. Olivier’s dojo is a sanctuary for creativity, a space where even mundanity becomes an act of artistry.

Art

Issue X

Don’t be afraid, take a bite!

Hugo Hoppmann, Sarah Discours

Sticky fingers run down jelly sandwiches. Tomato sauce splatters are unleashed upon unsuspecting tabletops. Most adults might gawk at the regressive desire to pick up a fist full of food and create worlds. But for Suea, a Korean-born, Brooklyn-based cook and food designer, tapping into this impulse unleashes possibilities with the power of nuclear fission...

Food

Issue 3

Tareet’s Visions

Sarah Discours

When I was 18, I went to a university for art and design, but quickly realized that it was too theoretical for me. I went on to do an internship with a tailor in Paris, where I fell in love with clothing…

Fashion

Issue 3

A Primitive Walk

Hugo Hoppmann

We have been dancing with ease for decades, on a Planet Earth that has its limits and showing this to us clearly, but we have turned a blind eye to its messages. We are pursuing a progress that leads us to the abyss, still we are always trying to run more! We need to stop dodging realities and present the planet new methodologies, materials and production systems that do not make us and our earth sick. What if progress means going back to the primitive?

Design

Issue 2

Attitude and Altitude

Hugo Hoppmann

His adventures have led Sibusiso guiding expeditions and giving motivational talks, keeping a strong focus on giving back to the community through his work. As a professional speaker, his message is simple: every person has their own “Everest” to climb. Whether you’re prepared for it or not, it’s there – challenging you to reach the top. And if he can do that in the most dangerous and inhospitable conditions and against all odds so, he suggests, can you.

Fear

Issue 2

A Call with Tricia and Terry Jones

Hugo Hoppmann

Some people build magazines. Others build entire worlds. On a quiet Monday afternoon, I spoke with Tricia and Terry Jones—partners in life, love, and legendary founders of i-D magazine. What followed wasn’t just conversation, it was a reminder: to stay true to your principles, to nourish the people around you, and to remember that enough is often exactly what we need. We talked about work and rest, the long arc of building something with care, and how to keep showing up—with presence, with love, and with pasta.

Starting

Issue 1

Hot Air: Filmmaker Regina Schilling

Jannik Schäfer

Filmmaker Regina Schilling is a great person to talk to about all of the above. An unusual voice in film, she had her first child aged 18, then pursued a big career in publishing — only to give it all up in order to become a filmmaker at 35. Regina’s widely celebrated and very personal essay film Kulenkampffs Schuhe (2018) revisits the repressed post-war traumas silently present in German game shows in the 60s and 70s. In this issue, Regina speaks candidly to Jannik Schäfer about her work, her process, and her creative struggle.

Art

Issue 1

Massimo Vitali

Hugo Hoppmann, Sarah Discours

Dive into our conversation with the legendary photographer about morning rituals, bicycles, cybertrucks, life, love and the lockdown...

Photography

Issue 2

Finding Presence in Running

Thi Minh Huyen Nguyen and Daniel Marin Medina

Through WAYV, they empower and embrace the politics of putting different, under-represented and marginalized bodies into motion. Together with their weekly training group, they serve an open and inclusive conversation that challenges the satatus quo and thus, the members create a progressive perspective of Berlin and the world. On a sunny May morning, Huyen and Daniel sat down to discuss their meditation and running practice.

Starting

Issue 1

Lacuna

We spoke with our Cape Town based friend and PRESENT contributor Lars Moereels about his journey, new habits, and the process behind his latest Logo Sofa project for LACUNA Studios April 12, 2022

Starting

Issue X

Dashi Diner: Food and Purpose

TRANG TA

Food

Issue 3

My Dojo: David Zilber

Food

Issue X

Tiempo de Zafra

Sophia Valera Heinecke

Fashion

Issue 3

Seize The Day Like A Stoic

Ryan Holiday

Philosophy

Issue X

Hannah Dunkelberg

What are you the most proud of in your space? The studio itself. What’s that one practice that has changed your life that you want to share with us? Art.

Art

Issue 2

Hannah Kuhlmann

Design

Issue X

Anna Santangelo

Fashion

Issue X

Volodymyr Sannikov

Starting

Issue X

Tom Król

Art

Issue 1

The Analogue Comeback

Frank Berzbach

Philosophy

Issue 3

Making Friends With Our Fears

Anne-Laure Le Cunff

Fear

Issue 2

Learning from Lina

Pia Brückner

Architecture

Issue 2

Know Thyself

Dennis Freischlad

Philosophy

Issue X

Samma Samādhi

Frank Berzbach

Philosophy

Issue X

Making in Movies

Jascha Hannover

Art

Issue X

Enchanted Embodiment

Ben Roth

Philosophy

Issue X

Running Through Isolation

Intisar Abdul-Kader

Starting

Issue 2

No Such Thing As A Fresh Start

Oliver Burkeman

The big lure of all such moments — as you’ll know if you have a similar weakness for time management systems, decluttering initiatives and suchlike — is the promise of making a fresh start.

Philosophy

Issue X

The Art of Touch

Brooklyn Reardon-Nikara

Philosophy

Issue 3

The Flower of Life

Cong Le Tran & Sonja Pham

Design

Issue 3

The Jean Genie: Story of a Denim Lover

Liselotte Girard

Fashion

Issue 3

Dare to be Eternal: Oliver Urman

Hugo Hoppmann, Sarah Discours

Art

Issue X

Don’t be afraid, take a bite!

Hugo Hoppmann, Sarah Discours

Food

Issue 3

Tareet’s Visions

Sarah Discours

Fashion

Issue 3

A Primitive Walk

Hugo Hoppmann

Design

Issue 2

Attitude and Altitude

Hugo Hoppmann

Fear

Issue 2

A Call with Tricia and Terry Jones

Hugo Hoppmann

Starting

Issue 1

Hot Air: Filmmaker Regina Schilling

Jannik Schäfer

Art

Issue 1

Massimo Vitali

Hugo Hoppmann, Sarah Discours

Dive into our conversation with the legendary photographer about morning rituals, bicycles, cybertrucks, life, love and the lockdown...

Photography

Issue 2

Finding Presence in Running

Thi Minh Huyen Nguyen and Daniel Marin Medina

Starting

Issue 1

Lacuna

We spoke with our Cape Town based friend and PRESENT contributor Lars Moereels about his journey, new habits, and the process behind his latest Logo Sofa project for LACUNA Studios April 12, 2022

Starting

Issue X