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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.

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When East Meets West

Weaving words to spread the magic of the Middle East, Persian-Canadian writer Amy Nina Pugsley looks to one of Istanbul’s oldest traditions to explore the impact modernisation is having on a region too often marred by negative perceptions.

Kumbharwada

What might a settlement in modern day Mumbai learn from a Nineteenth Century town planner in Edinburgh?

Resolving to design the city bottom-up

Dan Dorocic of ON/OFF – an architecture collective named after the group’s precarious working hours and projects – revisits one of the collective’s most extraordinary projects, Co-machines, in a call to move towards a bottom-up approach to the designing of our cities.

Mike Pickles’ Hong Kong

M+ Museum // Tai Kwun // The Mills

Simon Hicks’ Sustainable Global Spaces

Paley Park // Agrasen Ki Baoli // Cheonggyecheon River

Responding to Other People’s Dreams

By sketching the dehumanising boxes so rife within the UK’s housing sector, Gael Welstead presents a conceptual and pointed overview of the connected crises negatively affecting our health and well-being

Other People’s Dreams

Advocating for collective agency driving forward the future of our built environment, the work of Baxendale rallied against the production of the ‘least worst’ – as the practive’s Lee Ivett reflects upon

Twitter Dialogue: How do you design what you don’t know?

We invited Leeds Beckett/ Project Office’s Craig Stott to lead an interactive Twitter discussion to explore how we better design our built environment for those living with dementia.

Sierra Metro’s Sister Spaces

Nova Iskra // Category is Books // Custom Lane

Outstaying our Welcome

By way of a mapping of the 341 bus route in London, writer and musical artist Aidan Tulloch uses the vehicle to think about place, space and language in London, through the lens of Sustainable Development Goal 11: Sustainable Cities and Communities.