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Never demolish: Doing nothing to a building is an act of resistance

Never demolish: Doing nothing to a building is an act of resistance

by Maria Vogiatzaki | Apr 9, 2021 | Spaces

Starting out as an architect in the 1990s, I was so eager for work, and excited about the creative possibilities, that turning down a project seemed inconceivable. It was thrilling, then, at a conference a few years ago, to hear French architects Anne Lacaton and...

“Seaspiracy” Review: Find out what’s fact, what’s fiction and what to do about eating fish

“Seaspiracy” Review: Find out what’s fact, what’s fiction and what to do about eating fish

by Ronald Tardiff | Mar 30, 2021 | Opinion

This week Netflix dropped it’s long-teased documentary, Seaspiracy, about an ocean in peril, drowning in plastic, pillaged by overfishing, and rife with all manner of lawlessness. And to a large extent, this is true. In fact, despite it’s rather sweeping...

Slow down on this Western Cape slackpacking trail

Slow down on this Western Cape slackpacking trail

by Catherine Del Monte | Mar 10, 2021 | Places

Just over Sir Lowry’s Pass, an hour’s drive from Cape Town, is a slice of hikers’ heaven: the renowned Blue Mountain Trail. Regarded as a punchier sister to the Green Mountain Trail — a four-day, 60km slackpacking hike founded in 2007 — the Blue Mountain Trail is a...

Skin Minimalism: Using only 3 products will reduce waste and help save the planet

Skin Minimalism: Using only 3 products will reduce waste and help save the planet

by Nabeela Karim | Feb 24, 2021 | Beauty

Simplifying your skincare is not just better for your skin, but better for the planet too. We should all be familiar with the three R’s of waste hierarchy – reduce, reuse, recycle. While there is a focus on reusing and recycling, reducing is the one R that often goes...

Q&A: Nkwo Onwuka’s fashion brand is driven by the philosophy of less

by Jackie May | May 15, 2020 | Fashion

Nkwo Onwuka’s creative journey started in childhood when her mother, a dressmaker, showed her the way around a sewing machine. “We were never really in front of the television. We read books, went on ‘expeditions’, wrote stories, painted and we were always...