“Games providing the impression or actuality of more autonomy are growing in popularity”, says prog games-maker Keir Milburn
ACTION, A BETTER MEDIA, ARTISTS, CREATIVE INDUSTRIES, INGENUITY, LEARNING, TECHNOLOGY, NEW ENERGY SOURCES, DEMOCRATIC INNOVATIONpat kanecomputer games, video games, social games
The science of beauty: how aesthetics can boost your mood and cognition—and save you from a crash landing
Sound thinking: how the resonances of music and sound go deeply into the places that need to heal, with Alexandre Tannous
Novelist Elif Shafak highlights Virginia Woolf’s 1929 call to peace as deeply relevant to women today, in our own age of wars
How artistic organisations can express their role in helping the survival of biodiverse and human life on this troubled planet
Can a novel "offer the lived history of the individual against the official narratives of state history"? This year's International Booker Winner does so
“I feel I am valued in my society, that I can contribute valid ideas, that I have something to share”. Irish artists report the benefits of basic income
From a 1978 Japanese tv interview, Patti Smith comes with a perennial message: “*This* is your Golden Age…the time to flower is now”
The soundscape of Yorkshire, AIs having fun with cucumbers, and a beat combo messing with your mind... Playful A/V for you
Touching bags as a form of love, a history of men shouting, and stagecraft under lockdown. Some stellar film-essays
"Humans are imaginative activists - all of them, and they have been so for millennia. But we now need to come into our powers", writes Bridget McKenzie
ARTISTS, ACTION, ALTERNATIVE MEDIA SYSTEM, ENVIRONMENTALISTS, FUTURES, LEARNING, NEW ENERGY SOURCES, INGENUITY, SPRINGpat kaneeco-art, cultural politics, museums
Alternative Editorial: Where Gaza Meets Climate
A/UK EDITORIAL, ARTISTS, ENVIRONMENTALISTS, INDIVIDUAL, WAR/PEACE, YOUTHpat kanewar, peace, environment, RegenA, young, gen z, masculinity
How do we make the shift to planet-friendly food systems attractive, even cool? Cooking Sections, using art and design, shows us how
ENVIRONMENTALISTS, ARTISTS, INGENUITY, PLANETARIAN, PRACTICE, COMMUNITY, CREATIVE INDUSTRIES, GLOBALISTS, NEW ENERGY SOURCESpat kanefood, food politics, locavore
Radical Optimism is Dua Lipa’s philosophy for dealing with life’s chaos – but radical openness is a better approach
Joe Pease's videos are ontological shocks - all the hidden processes of modern life brought to the surface
Hard work, happy accidents, the pleasures of ritual: why, in a digitally-saturated age, we still love “analogue” tech
Mirror molecules, the soul of a smartphone, and dismissive rave: more audio-visual to reveal what's beneath the surface
“I don't know any other way to pull myself together”. A photographer commits to show everyday Moscow, under propaganda
“The magnificent here and now of life in the flesh is ours, and ours alone, and ours only for a time.” Natality lessons from D.H. Lawrence
“Tired of the hustle… wanna hear the leaves rustle”. And other advertising strategies for the ultimate client, devised by The Agency for Nature