Issue 32 Beyond Duty – Sublime

Revolution 2.0

Laura Santamaria — Mon, 18 Feb 2013 16:34:32 +0000

Remember the North African revolutions? Tunisia, Egypt and Libya, all within the space of a few months, threw off decades of dictatorship. Every one of the protest movements would, in a normal year, have warranted intense analysis, documentaries and books. So widespread and momentous were the events in North Africa that the minor details are...

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Just Design

Katrine Carstens — Mon, 18 Feb 2013 16:14:38 +0000

Just Design presents the reader with three options on how to view the state of the world: Pessimism (‘We’re screwed’), Delusion (‘Whatever’) or Optimism (‘It’s possible to figure this out’). Bridging the gap between the two most common types of design books, the lavish visual catalogue and the academic tome of a text, this book...

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Fresh Accents

Jenny Page — Wed, 13 Feb 2013 00:00:00 +0000

Left to right Green People Anti-Ageing Omega Rich Facial Oil 30ml, £16.95 a facial oil with nourishing avocado and almond oil. Contains Omega 3 and 6, as well as rosehip oil which helps maintain healthy, youthful-looking skin L’Occitane Cade Juniperus Oxycedrus Shaving Cream150ml, £14.50 enriched with a purifying and stimulating complex of essential oils and shea butter, it...

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Ground Control

Laura Santamaria — Tue, 12 Feb 2013 15:11:40 +0000

This welcome reissue of Ground Control includes a new chapter on the imminent London Olympics. It is the perfect addition to a book that seeks to raise the profile of the often tedious planning and building decisions that are changing the public spaces of Britain. Anne Minton is convinced that those changes are for the...

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Help is in the Air

Katrine Carstens — Sat, 05 May 2012 18:30:52 +0000

From the roof of The Royal London Hospital in Whitechapel, London’s Air Ambulance provides a lifesaving service to people in their moment of greatest need. Their one helicopter covers more than 600 square miles of the capital’s urban sprawl. Founded in 1989 in response to a report by the Royal College of Surgeons, it...

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Hands, Spirit, Heart

laurasan — Sat, 05 May 2012 18:04:42 +0000

Fashion has truly come of age. No longer content simply to create looks that open people’s eyes, there is a growing tribe of socially aware designers who are seeking to stretch people’s minds. While ethically focused businesses have made confident strides in the past several years, there are pioneering designers who have gone well...

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Being The Best

Laura Santamaria — Sat, 05 May 2012 17:53:26 +0000

‘This was no technical masterclass. This was blood and grit, a war of attrition. My mind could have given up on me at so many stages, and I just would not let it.’ Matter-of-fact and resolute, these are the words of Chrissie Wellington on her fourth victorious world Ironman triathlon – one of the...

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Beyond Clever

David Buckland — Sat, 05 May 2012 17:28:49 +0000

This past month has been a roller-coaster ride of success and struggle for the climate agenda. Nature Climate Change has just published a feature on Cape Farewell: Climate is Culture, plus we’re on the cover. Success! The UK government is dragging its feet over its climate commitment – ‘we are going to be the greenest...

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It’s What’s Inside That Counts

John Grant — Sat, 05 May 2012 17:24:56 +0000

If we could only persuade people to be more dutiful, more moral, more ethical. The trouble is – on the evidence of numerous past attempts – we can’t. And the irony may be that we don’t have to. Armed with the right information and understanding, most people will do the decent thing, most of the...

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Bigger and Not Better

Jeremy Leggett — Sat, 05 May 2012 17:20:30 +0000

The concept of duty is defined in the workplace easily enough with a tightly drafted job description. But that covers only my duty to my employer. What of my duty to society, beyond employment? Here there are no bullet-point templates. As for going beyond duty – surely an objective a good society would encourage in its citizens – what might that mean, in today’s world? The Financial Times recently ran a series of articles entitled ‘Capitalism in Crisis’.

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