humus^® – growing ideas

humus®, the magazine published for the first time on 1 April 1973 and curated by Gianni Sassi and the agency Al.Sa., is back in a new digital format. Originally launched as a four-monthly magazine, with six issues published in the Seventies, humus® was a completely unique publishing project, known for its front-running vision of social, environmental and cultural topics. Today it is back as a digital magazine – in both Italian and English – and sets out to investigate today’s topics, particularly relating to architecture and design, art and creativity with a constructive approach and a privileged focus on ceramics and all their artistic expressions.
Far from the concept of a house organ, humus® is an independent space for insight and debate. Starting from the literal meaning of the word (“set of organic substances found in the soil, of fundamental importance for plant nutrition” Treccani Encyclopaedia), humus® sets out to become a tool for listening and enrichment in a scenario in which cultural contents are increasingly fragmented and the opportunities for real understanding are increasingly rare.
Its Manifesto is clear: “We offer a space for the interpreters of design and ceramics, and for the voices of science and creativity – artists, photographers, researchers, scholars, experimenters – to illustrate their latest research works.
We will investigate a range of topics: economics, sociology, literature, geopolitics, physics, biology, IT... We will create connections and synapses useful for understanding reality.”
Today humus® is not just a digital magazine, it is an open space, a laboratory of ideas blending local and global art and science, tradition and innovation. A fertile soil – as the name suggests – for sowing and cultivating contents that really nourish in today’s increasingly fragmented cultural scenario.