This week in PostMag: swimming holidays and cyborg cockroaches
Chinese-Peruvian cuisine in Lima, a Croatian getaway for those who like taking to the water, and remote-controlled cockroaches at Singapore Design Week
What better time to start planning your next holiday than the end of summer? Yes, yes I know, we’re only just back from a slow-paced August. I managed to escape Hong Kong’s brutal heat with a weeklong trip to Yunnan province last month, but I’m already plotting the next getaway. That’s the thing about travel, isn’t it? It’s addictive. The change in place, in pace and in tastes. It’s hard to get enough.
So, in the spirit of escapism (and a soft landing back into real life), we’re kicking off autumn with a travel special, and we’re hopping continents – from the nostalgic snack stalls of Lima’s Chinatown and a swimming boat bobbing in the Adriatic to a Singaporean exhibition where cyborg cockroaches might just save the world.
Most notably, a cyborg cockroach takes centre stage in a showcase about design’s role in crisis response. It’s one of many commissions in a programme that also includes a pavilion built from hundreds of Unica stools (Singapore’s unofficial national seat) and a showcase of emerging designers, this year debuting creatives from Hong Kong and mainland China alongside others.