Section: Design & Innovation

Big ideas with heart

Guest Post

Avoiding hype and binary AI mindsetsAI is all the rage right now – and there’s an unspoken reason for that
Interview

To infinity and beyondUniversal Everything embraces technology to generate endless joy
Interview

How to design better using science“The best way to predict the future is to invent it”
Interview

“Digital technologies can stimulate empathy”Queer Eye Brazil host Guto Requena on urban design – and love
Conversation

Restoring Eden – Iraq’s marshlandsAzzam Alwash in conversation with John Elkington
Feature

Deep troubleIs deep sea mining inevitable?
Feature

Can advertising be good?Brian Eno and Jon Alexander headline the world’s first Earth Day Advertising Summit
Interview

Cool ideas for a hot planetInside the nonprofit that turned festival activism into an art form
Feature

Gulliver travels to San SebastiánThe cool culinary congress inspired by Gulliver’s Travels
Feature

The golden coral women of WasiniMeet the Kenyan fisherwomen breathing life back into a dying island
Interview

Hedonism with heartWake the Tiger at the world’s first ‘Amazement Park’
Guest Post

Have we created an AI monster?The great AI debate
Interview

A tapestry of Black historyGeorge McCalman’s vivid portraits highlight Black pioneers
Interview

“It started with the arrival of a boat”Safwat Saleem’s art balances sugar and pain
Interview

The Sound of Temperature RisingChristine Sun Kim’s heated soundscape focuses on climate change
Interview

“Will our legacy be pyramids of garbage?”Q&A with Lebanese-Egyptian artist Bahia Shehab
Interview

The art of serious playYana Buhrer Tavanier on the Fine Acts inspiring change
Feature

The sex robots are comingAnd so are we
Quick Read

The future is plastic freeYour new creative tool to design plastic out of existence
Guest Post

“I want a repairable toaster”Make it circular or don’t make it at all
Quick Read

Braille NeueA universal typeface for a more inclusive society
Feature

Generation NextWhat 7 culinary gamechangers predict for 2023
Video

‘The Real Ross’ – Steve BrusatteSimone Angel meets Jurassic Park’s dinosaur consultant
Interview

Going circularUpcycling in Taiwan is changing the way we see trash
Feature

Junk KoutureThe competition inspiring young people to create rubbish fashion
Feature

Expanding queerness into 2023What a new wave of queer space means
Quick Read

Welcome to the jungleA bestiary of birds who mean business
List

21 cosmic websites you need to knowHow big is space? Sci-fi legend David Brin investigates
Interview

“Well-behaved women rarely make history“Enter the punk mind and mosaic house of artist-provocateur Carrie Reichardt
Interview

The climate hero that doesn’t sleepMatt Davies on why the termite is the greatest superbug
Interview

She is fierceHow to become a self-made artist – with Charly Clements
Guest Post

When climate data goes viralViral activist Benjamin Von Wong explains climate equity in paper and charcoal
Book Extract

“You are already eating bugs!”Gaia Vince argues for meat alternatives to avoid climate upheaval
List

The worst album art in the world!12 dreadful record covers cracking life’s mystery to reenact at Christmas
Interview

Dominique Crenn on art – and loveThe rebel chef with four Michelin stars paints her utopia
Interview

Lauren Martin gives us lifeNYC illustrator creates a joyful cosmos by animating the mundane
List

18 designers at the tableThe Climate Creative Collective bringing maverick creativity to COP27
Quick Read

Wonderland DreamsArtist Alexa Meade blurs the lines of art and reality in New York
Interview

“I’d have a cold beer every day!”Toast Ale co-founder Louisa Ziane brews a better future
Interview

Eggs on the edgeSaving the world’s weirdest parrot and a newt the size of a man
Conversation

Diving after your dreamsNelly Ben Hayoun meets Jill Heinerth – the fearless aquanaut who dives through icebergs
Quick Read

Whatever you do, make it circularIt’s time to build a circular society – one great idea at a time
Interview

On the wings of scienceTracking the extraordinary journey of the cuckoo
Editor’s Note

Introducing TOPIA Season 02 – The EggCracking life’s mysteries with Lisa Goldapple
Conversation

“This compass doesn’t look right to me!”Philippe Rouja and Nelly Ben Hayoun dive into the Bermuda Triangle
Interview

“The kids are alright”Graphic Days want us to Grow Younger
Interview

Bendy ‘nanas and wonky flowersQ&A with nostalgia-loving, garden-plucking artist Liv Lee
Feature

If it’s broke, fix itTaking mending to the street doctors
Interview

In Hearts WakeThe imperfect pursuit of a climate positive album
Conversation

“Capitalism can be good”John Elkington meets Patagonia’s billionaire boss Yvon Chouinard
Interview

Beatie Wolfe beamed music into spaceAnd now she’s releasing the world’s first commercially available bioplastic 12″ record
Interview

I Scream ColourQ&A with Humberto Cruz – the digital doodler brightening our reality
Interview

Enter the Maus HausQ&A with Alice in Wonderland-inspired street artist Claudia Osborn
Interview

Make it fun!Q&A with artist Yeye Weller – creator of colourful happy things
Feature

Can urban acupuncture heal us?9 cities feeling the pinpricks of change
Conversation

“My father took me to see Einstein play the violin”John Elkington meets science fiction legend David Brin
Quick Read

The world’s first solar biennialA new and holistic perspective on the energy of the sun
Feature

Introducing Space FeminismsBringing a new perspective to the space industry
Interview

Black in JapanBuilding the first foreign-owned anime studio in Japan
List

5 wonders of the machine ageTitanic of the mountains, Nazi gold and Elvis Costello
Feature

Drawing UmbrageIndian cartoonists are lining up to bring down the system
Interview

Can crypto art save the creative world?Viral video originator Eclectic Method on NFTs
Feature

Enter the primeval fireballStep inside a new digital universe
Quick Read

Good news! Our planets are safeThe solar system is stable for at least 100,000 years
List

5 radical books to reframe your perspectiveYour summer reading list – brought to you by What Design Can Do
Interview

“Bras made of recycled water bottles are a distraction!”Taking plastic solutions beyond eco-circles
Interview

“Not your typical man”Orange Culture designer Adebayo Oke-Lawal on toxic masculinity
Interview

Meet the nü waste warriorsDouglas McMaster’s Justice League gives upcycling a twist
List

TikTok O’Clock14 creators creating real change
Interview

“Nature will outlast capitalism”Songwriter-scientist Love Ssega designs his utopia
Interview

The revolution will be CrystalisedDrag Race UK’s Crystal designs their utopia
Quick Read

UncompressedMeet the world’s first synth-nerd supergroup
Interview

Free your mind from gravityThe exciting future of art in space
Interview

“Anarchy is misunderstood”Skirting the strange with a pioneering off-road rally driver
Interview

The real Top GunMeet the real-life ‘Charlie’ – a true Maverick
Feature

How to hack a bus stopBrandalism fights corporate crimes with spoof ads
List

8 reasons to go to Sónar Festival 2023Get a glimpse of the future of AI in Barcelona
Interview

The Wonderful Wizard of MinecraftDigital noodler Adam Clarke builds a better world – one block at a time
Conversation

Nelly Ben Hayoun meets the real Iron ManUnlocking our sixth sense with brain magnets
Interview

Putting the perfume in planetary scienceWhy the Milky Way tastes like raspberries
Short Story

NutriOrbsSavour the flavour of the future
Conversation

Dancing in space to tackle knotty problemsJohn Elkington meets James Parr – the inventor getting astronauts excited
Interview

How to live – and build – in symbiosis with natureEco-conscious designer Julia Watson explores the power of Indigenous technologies
List

And then there was sound14 iconic album covers influenced by the Big Bang
Feature

WhatsApp WarriorsZimdancehall stars hustle their way to the top – using phones
Feature

How to avoid being hit by lightningScience, radio and myths collide in Zimbabwe
List

17 wondrous website time machinesFall down the rabbit hole to find retro treasure
Interview

The forces that move usParag Khanna explains how climate change is remapping humanity
Feature

“You literally piss on your robot”Recycling ourselves to cheat death
Interview

How to bring down a Russian timber baronMeet the eco spies uncovering Siberian scandals
Feature

Deep impact – Shooting to the starsMeet the world’s top astrophotographers
Interview

“We are the cosmic weirdos”How can we see space differently? Dr Chanda Prescod-Weinstein answers
Interview

“We’re missing the first chapter”How can we see space differently? James Webb Space Telescope’s Dr Amber Straughn answers
Interview

“Crabs will inherit the Earth”How can we see space differently? Astronomer Dr Tana Joseph answers
Interview

Sciencing the “Bazinga!” out of The Big Bang TheoryBehind the scenes: what it’s like to fact-check Sheldon Cooper
Conversation

Space rocksTOPIA meets the stardust expert who eyeballs fireballs to hunt for water

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