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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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This is not just a skatepark

Reconceptualising skateparks as spaces that cultivate creativity and self-expression.

boom saloon’s Athens

SNFCC // Benaki Museum // Gonia

boom saloon’s Year in Review

"Join us in sharing more incredible stories of the power of creativity in achieving sustainable development — this year, and always."

Dr M. Winter’s Tallinn

Lahemaa National Park // Telliskivi // Iglupark

Jimin Kang’s Oxford

Despite its haughty traditions, it is also a prefigurative place, an incubator for ideas and thoughts that bleed beyond the borders of the small city into the bigger world and the complex discussions of development at play, as some of these places represent.

Art, Design
· Environment & Place, Equity & Voice

Elliott’s

Exploring the cross-section of food and creativity through the lens of Scotland, Jess Dennison and Philippa Henley explore the authenticity, imperfection, cross-disciplinary thinking and debate at play as two sectors collide

Sitopia

When chasing the utopian dream of an equitable, healthy and resilient society for all, architect and writer Carolyn Steel argues that we must understand the transformational power of food to usher in the good life

Farida Alvarez’s Catania

Punto // Zo Centro Culturale // Vermut

Read Along: Affective Reformations

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.

Design
· Equity & Voice

It’s a journey, isn’t it?

Priya Khanchandani’s role as Head of Curatorial and Interpretation at the Design Museum in London may allow her more scope than ever before to drive forward our cultural institutions’ moral imperatives; yet, as Ryan Filchak discovers, this has long been on her agenda.