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. …

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.

As a transformational leadership coach and ecologist Anne Caspari integrates lessons from the world’s best functioning organisation, nature, to restore balance to the modern workplace. — 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 part works independently of the other.”

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. …

“No critical thinking, no self awareness, no thoughts, just vibes.” In what is perhaps an information-overload coping mechanism and after wayyy too much time spent at home during the pandemic, some Gen-Zs on TikTok have started promoting a hyperfeminine philosophy called Bimboism. In a podcast called The Bimbo Manifesto, 19 year old Fiona Fairbairn spells out that “bimbuality” is the…

The game last night was the most watched Football event on TV in the UK, ever. My 87 year old grandad got the train from Nottingham to London to watch it with my dad. Across the country people were travelling to watch it with loved ones. For a brief and…