Welcome to TOPIA
Where anything goes – as long as it’s good
TOPIA is your guide to an extraordinary world in metamorphosis – a kaleidoscopic look at culture, nature and positive impact
What on earth is TOPIA?
This new digital magazine is for anyone who has ever wondered just what this mind-bender of a universe is all about or just wants to be entertained with outrageously good stories.
Packed with matters that impact everyone from design to conservation, TOPIA takes curious minds on a round-the-world trip, shining a spotlight on the remarkable people – and creatures – keeping our planet cool.
Ready for some cheerscrolling?
TOPIA
is Lewis Carroll meets Tina Fey in the canteen at National Geographic. It’s a multicoloured cabinet of curiosities, where diverse voices report from the world’s wildest edges.
The joy is in the mashup. Although we are happy to guide you around our wild wonderland, feel free to choose your own adventure. Click on The Rabbit Hole randomiser at the top and bottom of the page as many times as you like to be inspired by a different feature each time.
Like nature, TOPIA changes theme with the seasons, each providing a romp through unique tales that tap into the thrill of being alive. Season 01 kicked off in March 2022 with a bang.
Why?
Because we might be overstretched, overproduced, overwhelmed. But we’re not over tomorrow.
The world is in rehab. Planet Earth is in mid-redesign – getting reinvented, rewilded, and regenerated from ground up. Curiouser and curiouser, we’re learning to overcome our addictions and transform it all: from what we farm, eat, and wear; to how we power our homes, travel, and run our lives.
A richly representative place where different voices – including those from nature – can tell their story, consider TOPIA your portal into a creative wonderland of anarchic joy, with alchemy inspired by the impossibility-denying and multicoloured mindbender that is Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland.
Humans love stories. So Our Mission is simple. We want to engage creative, curious and downright perplexed minds in what’s important by telling incredible tales with brilliant storytelling, beautiful visuals and editorial integrity. Because…
If anything is going to save the world,
it’s us falling in love with it.
What’s so good about this?
We like having fun. Our pieces are quirky, innovative, and sometimes irreverent. But it all comes from a good place. Everything featured on TOPIA has a ‘What’s so good about this?’ box to help us think differently, quizzically. We encourage everyone to explore your mind as much as the planet, to follow your curiosity, to question the status quo, to adventure into the wilderness.
Meet the writer
Our contributors are important to us and always attributed well with a ‘Meet the writer’ box. It includes your photo, bio and links to your website, social media profiles and portfolio of TOPIA work. Each one of your pieces is given a TOPIA-style creative ‘treatment’ when it is pushed out across our four social channels – and featured in our highly engaged newsletter. Pitch us a story.
Enter the KALEIDOSCOPE: Our series
Access All Areas
As a small, independent publication, we prioritise editorial independence over profit. There are no barriers, paywalls, ads or pop-ups. TOPIA is published online – free – with new content added daily, a seasonal podcast and fortnightly newsletter, A World of Good. Just sign up for an AAA pass to devour deeply interesting and inspiring stories.
Produced between London and Barcelona, TOPIA is created by Lisa Goldapple in collaboration with a sparkling array of collaborators, from Argentina to Zimbabwe. Meet Team TOPIA.
