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Our features explore the connection between the arts and social change. We amplify voices too often silenced, commissioning and covering stories from communities at the forefront of sustainable and inclusive development to highlight the creative endeavours bettering our world. Our online archive is free and open to all, showcasing a range of features excerpted from our print publications as well as specially curated digital pieces that further these conversations, highlighting creativity’s role in shaping a positive future for all.

Features

Loader Monteith Architects Founding Director Matt Loader and Studio SJM Architects Architect/ Director Sarah-Jane Storrie join us to discuss architecture’s role in rewriting the story of dementia as part of a quiet revolution at the intersection of design and care
Xiaohe Park // Isamu Noguchi Garden Museum // Cheonggyecheon Stream
The diasporic architect in the reconstruction of Sudan
An unexpected angle, a new focus, a change of perspective. Egle Kisieliute is carving a name for herself with her striking, sharply defined architecture photography; in the following series she explores the power composition holds to reframe our vision.
While a Eurocentric narrative has long dominated the architectural space, AMA Syria explores a new dialect
“The references listed below constitute a small sampling of texts and thinking that informed the discussion. They are loose, disparate and certainly inexhaustive, but pool a multidisciplinary range of perspectives – making and being from various voices at various scales between the individual and the collective.”
Drawing upon the concept of a traditional smokehouse, design practice Izat Arundell share their plans to revisit the structures and build two new forms to offer space for survival and celebration.
Post-event, join us to look back on a conversation exploring architecture and design culture, and the effective role of visual art in our construction of – and engagements with – physical space.
What might a settlement in modern day Mumbai learn from a Nineteenth Century town planner in Edinburgh?