Growing a Network
Berlin's Die Gemeinschaft was founded to bring transparency and better communication to the secretive world of top gastronomy.
Buildings for the Birds
Dubai-based urbanists Ahmed and Rashid bin Shabib believe traditional pigeon towers have the potential to inspire renewed forms of coexistence.
Chairs at the Table
Anthropologist architects Jingru (Cyan) Cheng and Chen Zhan bring chairs to The Common Table as tools for resilient collective structures of care in China.
Dairy Non Dairy
Designer Philipp Kolmann is on a quest to create plant-based cheese and save the microbiomes and artisanal food culture of the Alps in the process.
Climate: Are We Thinking Too Hard?
Writer, curator and educator John Thackara advocates a new kind of universal foundation course to foster ecological literacy and a whole-systems understanding of the world.
Knowledge is Choice
Nataly Restrepo is a strategic food designer concerned with new connections between food design and commerce. We talked to her about brand responsibility and the future of food labelling.
A Multispecies Banquet
Designers of the future Superflux's Refuge for Resurgence invokes the symbolic by setting a table for interspecies dialogue in the wreckage of the Anthropocene, writes Alec Carver.
A Love Supreme
Nilesh Patel made this beautiful black and white short film about his mother making samosas for love and for the future. Twenty years later we asked him to revisit.
A New Dutch Production Waterscape
Designer architect Rianne Makkink talks about her studio's harbour redevelopment plan complete with low-impact food and energy resources: mushrooms, insects, duckweed and seaweed.
