The endless flow of a city, the river that carries us after death, the empires that break-up like cells: more videos for the soul
Alternative Editorial: Intensely Personal Politics
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How to make child’s play of precarity: “Crisanto Street” and other documentaries
Love in the midst of conflict, Shanghai dreaming, and a fragile acceleration: 3 soul-food videos
"What happens after the play is the point of the play". A new wave of "people's theatres" generating civic power
Growing like the concentric rings of a mighty tree... a visualisation of waves of immigration to the US. What would ours look like?
Welcome to A Future Fantastic Festival in Sheffield. Imagine your future - and how you will get there - this July
Virals and memes, aimed at the soul: WWF's "We are all connected", the Force Majeure avalanche, and "Truth" flying to pieces
Alternative Editorial: We Are At War
Museums and artspaces can make control shift - if they open themselves out to community and planet
Lachie Gordon Athié on how festivals can help to align "I", "We" and "World" - and show a viable, regenerative alternative
If a design school like the Bauhaus was launched today, it would have eco-literacy as its foundation course
Participatory art can be misused by developers and councils. But done well, it gives voice to citizens
The yoghurt ladies of South Korea, and a "creatives" Airbnb that loves friction. Humans in the city, infinitely...
Alternative Editorial: This Is Waking Up
Beyond battles over its UK news content, the BBC gets on with bringing complex inner and outer worlds to you
How activists (school strikers and XR'ers) have shifted the policies of top-down politicians and officials
What do we do with a plastiglomerate? Contemporary arts grapple with the extinction possibility
How the "new nature writing" can help us to grieve nature, and save nature, at the same time
Seaside towns may well be at the end of the line. But they have much potential for local power. And they have the sea...