Microfinance, Mega Future
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Yet more news on the economy – usually gloomy – and how it’s going to affect our day-to-day lives tends to leave us feeling bewildered. But for people in poverty-stricken communities,…
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Eating By Design
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‘Design means creative thinking,’ says Marije Vogelzang, artist, product designer, sculptor, party organiser and chef. ‘It doesn’t mean material, or even giving shape to something. Giving shape is the…
Flawed Is Beautiful
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A museum is already holding a retrospective of her work, which looks set to be regarded as one of the most important female designers of her generation, Hella Jongerius has…
Miral
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Spanning the period from the birth of the State of Israel in 1948 to the talks of the Oslo Peace Agreement in 1994, the story begins when the narrator asserts,…
The Wisdom of Bees
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The result is a fairly likeable anecdotal book split into 25 chapters, or ‘lessons’, with a sprinkling of fascinating information. (Did you know that bees have an inbuilt version of…
The Atlas of Human Migration
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The Atlas of Human Migration, a collaborative effort by five authors at the University of Sussex, is a very useful fact-based exploration of the same theme. Using extensive full-colour atlas…
Brother To Brother
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From their studio in Belleville, Paris, Ronan and Erwan Bouroullec are building an extraordinary reputation as Europe’s most original design team. It is a collaboration based not only on their…
Last Days Of The Arctic
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Eschewing digital and working in black and white, chronicling some of the harshest environments on the planet, Ragnar ‘RAX’ Axelsson has long walked a singular path in the photographic world.…
On The Right Track
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For some time now, social scientists have been concerned about the increasing fragmentation of our world. The trend towards individualisation and the loosening of those ties which traditionally bound social…
