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Black Pencil Mushroom by Sezer Ali, 2024
Black Pencil Mushroom by Sezer Ali, 2024

Exploring mycelium’s role in sustainable innovation

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>> BRINGING IDEAS TO LIFE THROUGH BOLD AND THOUGHTFUL DESIGN

Fruit body

Mycelium

PORTFOLIO

LONDON COFFEE BREAK

AN ILLUSTRATED JOURNEY THROUGH EAST LONDON'S UNIQUE COFFEE CULTURE

BUY THROW REPEAT

WHY ARE WE FORCED BY CORPORATIONS TO CHANGE SWITCH OUR UPDATE MOBILE DEVICES SO OFTEN?

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THE NOTEBOOK

>> A SPACE FOR EXPLORING SUSTAINABILITY, CREATIVITY, AND CULTURE THROUGH ENGAGING STORIES AND INSIGHTS

Between 1400 and 1750, men loved each other in ways that no category can fully contain. Drawing on Noel Malcolm's landmark study Forbidden Desire, this essay traces the hidden histories of same-sex love across Renaissance Florence, Ottoman Istanbul, and early modern Europe — and asks what the archive can, and cannot, hold.

FORBIDDENDESIRE

1923 by Taner Ceylan, 2010 (From the lost painting series)1923 by Taner Ceylan, 2010 (From the lost painting series)

What history tells us about who we are

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THE CLIMATE ON OUR PLATES

The growing connection between extreme weather, agriculture, and the cost of food

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CLIMATE & FOOD

WHEN SUCCESS HAS NO CONSCIENCE

A LOVE FUSED IN PAINT

GENDER IS A GARMENT SOCIETY CHOOSES FOR YOU

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Virginia Woolf, Judith Butler, and the question of identity beyond gender

Personalities and the systems that reward them

An exploration of Gluck’s Medallion as a radical act of queer self-representation

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