Blueprint for Living is a weekly rummage through the essential cultural ingredients - design, food, travel, gardens, fashion - for a good life.
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2024-03-23 |
The alt right diet, meat and masculinity and chef Jo Barrett's last supper Raw meat, egg slonking, seed oil panic and the war on “soy globalism” - welcome to the obscurantist dietary fixations of the alt right. Jan Dutkiewicz, Assistant Professor of Political Science in the Department of Social Science and Cultural Studies a... |
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2024-03-16 |
Paris' radical climate plan and a design history of the bicycle The city of Paris is about to enact an ambitious new climate Plan and we discuss the commitment to building a cyclist friendly urban centre; We also delve into the design history of the bicycle; and visit a man who makes penny farthings. |
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2024-03-09 |
Nam Le on Iowa City, Provincetown and becoming a writer and hors d'oeuvres with Elizabeth David Internationally renowned designer Bethan Laura Wood is building a library like no other; she gives us a tour of Kaleidoscope-o-rama; Nam Le, award winning author of The Boat, takes us to the two places that shaped him as a writer; and Annie Smithers co... |
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2024-03-02 |
Solarpunk: a vision of a brighter future, the churn in aesthetics and a museum of disgusting foods Solarpunk's vision for a brighter future, the churn in aesthetics and why do we find some foods disgusting? |
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2024-02-24 |
Besha Rodell predicts 2024 food trends, Nathan Thrall on Jerusalem and Guy Grossi's last supper Besha Rodell casts her gaze back on the food scene that was 2023 and makes her predictions for 2024; Journalist and author Nathan Thrall takes us to the city he calls the most divided in the world – his home city of Jerusalem. |
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2024-02-17 |
Aesthetic uniformity, hipster cafes and Neutraface, the ubiquitous signifier of gentrification Exposed brick, smashed avocado, hanging Edison bulbs, the patina of industry and reclaimed wood furniture – this is the algorithmic aesthetic writer and critic, Kyle Chayka investigates in his new book, Filterworld: How Algorithms Flattened Culture. Al... |
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2024-02-10 | Kevin McCloud on the definition of good design, why Grand Designs is such a compelling proposition;Â Yanis Varoufakis reflects on growing up in the shadow of the Parthenon, on his idyllic childhood and its contrast to the brutal political reality agains... |
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2024-02-03 | Psychoanalyst Josh Cohen reflects on the contradictions, conflicts and the disordered and divided appetites of the modern individual and Colin Bisset gives a design history of the comfortable chair. |
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2024-01-27 | This week, a haunted edition of Blueprint: a meditation, through food, cooking and place, on loss and the insistence of the past. |
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2024-01-20 |
The architectural and environmental legacies of colonisation The settler-colonial project involved the imposition of European conceptions of natural landscape on the one hand, and the built world on the other. Jack Pascoe, Owen Hatherley and Michael-Shawn Fletcher consider the legacy of colonialism - its persist... |
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