The Editors

What happens when a good chunk of people are unemployed due to automation? Douglas Rushkoff on the future of work and its broader implications (e.g. UBI, meaning etc.).

We have built a system of criminal law that depends upon our trusting the government but what is the state of trust in our institutions? Revisiting the Aaron Swartz story.

Corporate culture is all the rage these days and this historical artefact from the Benjamin Moore company shows how important corporate value systems have always been.

Big cities are constantly changing, shops and restaurants opening and closing, neighbourhoods gentrifying, others being re-discovered, some declining or simply becoming sleepier.

'Free' has not exactly been the best model for the internet and Kevin Kelly's 'generative' was an interesting (perhaps even prescient) idea that anticipated some of the more recent developments (NFT's come to mind).

Ariane Michaud and Frederique Sarrazin have created something special out of something banal: a fashionable and modern fall and winter collection made entirely of yarn.

Communications between citizens and their institutions is often problematic, discouraging people from engaging. Brickstarter is a platform to turn possibilities into proposals into projects.

Whether it relates to Quinoa (this story) or other commodities heavily consumed in developed countries —such as coffee— it is useful to explore questions of sustainability in the context of ever more complex supply chains.

A team of creative neighbourhood-changers that assemble as a non-profit think tank to come up with interesting ways to start conversations, renew a sense of community, and unfold curiosities.