WEEK IN REVIEW INTERVIEW WITH AI WEIWEI ai weiwei participates at this year's engadin art talks (E.A.T.), which will explore the different meanings of hope through the lens of the creative, humanitarian and scientific fields. designboom spoke with the artist, who has emerged as one of the leading cultural figures of his generation in china and beyond through his diverse and prolific practice, driven by his social activism and political beliefs. read our conversation in full here, and find out more about the upcoming weekend-long event here. 'EVERYTHING HERE IS VOLCANIC' AT FRIEDMAN BENDA frida escobedo, pedro reyes, javier senosiain and more mexican artists, designers, architects and makers participate in friedman benda's 'everything here is volcanic'. conceived by independent design curator, editor and researcher mario ballesteros, the ongoing exhibition 'wants to transport the chaotic, multifarious, supersaturated and superimposed nature of design as practiced now in mexico, and to make it immediately palpable in a very different context'. A FLOATING CITY SETS OUT TO CLEAN THE OCEAN polimeropolis proposes the urbanization of the great pacific garbage patch with a series of giant floating islands. the concept project envisions a sustainable, self-contained city built from the plastic waste it captures as it cleans up the ocean. see more submissions by our readers here, and find out how to upload your own project here. the weekly is an inside review curated by sofia lekka angelopoulou. | 