Our task is to figure out what it is. — Anthropocene: the ubiquitous term used to refer to our epoch, when our species has become the main driving agent in the Earth’s circulatory processes. The carbon released into the atmosphere through driving our cars, flying our planes and powering our industries, is disrupting our planet’s normally self-regulating systems. To understand…

Cultural theorist Stuart Hall once wrote that pop-culture is “an arena that is profoundly mythic. It is a theatre of popular desires, a theatre of popular fantasies.” For years, #FreeBritney campaigners eagerly followed Britney’s Instagram for hidden clues that the singer was crying out for help. The conviction amongst fans…

On reciprocity, care and a reimagined relationship. Republished from my newsletter: Regenerative Futures Berlin This past weekend I went to a workshop with the Open Soil Atlas, a pilot project to create open-source data on soil health around Berlin. At the workshop, we learned how to test the soil and…

2019 interview with Krolikowski Art, the artists and organisers of the Metamodern Arts Festival in Kyiv. — This conversation with the Kyiv-based artist duo Alexandra and Alexander Krolikowski is Pt.2 of a series of conversations with some of the metamodern artists behind the organising of the Metamodern Arts Festival. Read Pt.1 here. Alexandra and Alexander first started their journey in 2007 after running away together from Alexandra’s…

Dr Ana Trbovich is the co-founder of Grid Singularity and The Energy Web Foundation (EWF), two technology ventures working to design the smart, green, decentralised energy ecosystems of the future. — It is often said that energy is the “lifeblood” of modern societies. From the central heating that keeps us warm in the winter, to the internet networks that connect us with people across the world. More so today than ever, life without electricity would be unimaginable. Yet, paradoxically, our demand…

Berlin winter hacks. Sometimes it’s Vitamin D, sauna and clubbing. This year at least, it’s fairy lights. So far I have strung them across the ceiling, adorned the houseplants and looped them around the handrail of the balcony. Even now that Christmas and New Year’s are over they won’t be…

Brett Scott is an author and the creator of ‘Altered States of Monetary Consciousness’, exploring emergent forms of finance, alternative currencies and economic activism. — Brett is the author of The Heretic’s Guide to Global Finance: Hacking the Future of Money. He recently launched Altered States of Monetary Consciousness, a YouTube channel covering the global monetary system, alternative currency projects, economic activism, tech politics and cryptocurrency.

Transformational leadership coach and ecologist Anne Caspari integrates lessons from the world’s best functioning organisation, nature, to restore balance to the modern workplace. — This article was originally published on Emerge, in 2018. Photography by Caroline Mackintosh. Have you ever looked a a bee or an ant and had the feeling that there’s no such thing as a single bee, or a single ant? Anne Caspari has. “They’re a collective,” she says. “No one…

After a spiritual upbringing in Nigeria’s capital city of Lagos, Bayo Akomolafe founded a network of artists, activists and academics dedicated to using art and ritual to reframe the world’s interlocking social and environmental crises. — When Bayo Akomolafe was a child he prayed to God for a “faith-o-meter” — some kind of tool that would measure his worthiness and assure him of his place in heaven. “Of course I didn’t get my prayer answered,” he says. “But I got something better than an answer, I…