“The magnificent here and now of life in the flesh is ours, and ours alone, and ours only for a time.” Natality lessons from D.H. Lawrence
“Tired of the hustle… wanna hear the leaves rustle”. And other advertising strategies for the ultimate client, devised by The Agency for Nature
From a designer’s perspective, AI is like the new version of plastic - distorting everything, at great ecological cost
Hard Art says: “Everything today is about story, about attention, about making people feel something fully enough to do something about it"
"Evil Does Not Exist" is a powerful Japanese eco-drama about one community’s fight against intrusive land development
Transition Tooting is going to make their locality into a "Town Anywhere" - capable of imagining, and realising, positive futures
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Digitally divided in society, echo-located in a neighbourhood, sanctified on a mountain... Documentaries that make a world
With K-Pop giants SEVENTEEN headlining Glastonbury, South Korea’s long-term soft power strategy is truly paying off
The original sustainable architect, an evocation of time and tide, one year in a flower-farmer's life: A/V for Spring
Alternative Editorial: launch of a new political project from the Alternative Global— SPRING
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Humans bossing humans around, non-player characters lost in routine, and Sora making anyone a movie maker. A/V for this virtual moment
“I am a window of opportunity”: Plymouth’s innovative social enterprise sector comes up with Vacancy Atlas, redefining the high street
How do you make sustainable travel super-attractive? You sculpt hydrogen refuelling stations, and redesign the classic train journey
After half-a-century, Cindy Sherman is still photographing herself, showing how media (and now AI) splinters our identity
“San Francisco was the left edge of America, a refuge from its conformities, a sanctuary for misfits, a lab for new ideas”. And now, says Rebecca Solnit…
"Don't Fight", "Don't Win", "Don't Surrender". The mottos of the independent Republic of Užupis, made by artists in Lithuania's capital Vilnius
The best music videos of last year take you higher, open up wormholes, create you from an embryo, and rap sublimely
What is the Fête of Britain? It's a four-day takeover in Manchester, curated by Brian Eno and Es Devlin's new cultural movement, Hard Art
Ai Wei Wei on art's role as a "guardian" against the effects of AI. But it also means "weird video games, emotional chaos and sabotage chic"
Thinking like Gaia is more than the sum of the cards, says planetary coach Tom Mansfield
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