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For the architecture lover, we’ve curated a considered edit of publications sharing poignant insights on the built environment from around the world. Our second issue shares extraordinary photography from the streets of North America and Mumbai before heading back to the UK for Eleanor Pender’s examination of city making and how we might incentivise citizens to be co-creators in their own neighbourhoods. A poignant questioning of the Grenfell disaster provides much for thought within the pages of this pressing issue. 004 continues the conversation with Baxendale Studio/ Lee Ivett’s discussion of the fear of agency within today’s society in Other People’s Dreams, a forceful examination of our current approach to contested space. Donald Urquhart’s Natural Wonder presents a strong case for the virtues of biophilic design alongside Egle Kisieliute’s Concrete Jungle and an intimate insight into the built environments of India.
This carefully curated gift is completed with our fifth issue, sharing the works of Berlin’s On/Off – an architecture collective striving to incentivise local communities to shape their own environments; Izat Arundell’s smokehouses project in the Scottish Hebrides and The Design Museum’s Priya Khanchandani.
1 in 2 of us will be directly affected by dementia in our lifetimes; it is currently the leading cause of death in the UK. In spite of this, the general public are largely unaware of the dementia journey and how this can look for an individual following diagnosis.
Many people with dementia feel their voice is taken from them and their true lived experience is rarely recognised or appreciated amidst a plethora of sensationalised headlines, medical jargon or scaremongering.
Within this landscape, we collaborate with people with dementia and, together, play with words to give voice to their experience. We then share these words across our print publications, online features, newsletters and events – centring lived experience and using this to increase empathy and understanding in wider society too often presented with a flattened, singular narrative of dementia focussed on incapacity, loss and inability. Our work redresses this, unlocking and showcasing what people with dementia can do before sharing this to rewrite the narrative by centring lived experience.
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