How Brighton & Hove became Britain's greenest food city
Long known as a progressive beacon, Brighton & Hove is quickly becoming a global model of food sustainability.
Quayside at Wells-next-the-Sea, Norfolk
Quayside at Wells-next-the-Sea, Norfolk
Knots and Leaves
Knots and Leaves
Dungeness
Dungeness
Finland's rising capital of food
I got my first taste of why Turku – the oldest city in Finland – has become a new Nordic food hotspot as I sampled my way through its 19th-Century Market Hall. The handsome red-brick building is set a block back from the River Aura, which flows through town and out into the Turku Archipelago – the world's largest archipelago, where around 40,000 islands stretch across the Gulf of Bothnia towards Sweden.
Three pioneering cities, one sustainable future: how lives will change if cities realize their climate goals
It’s the 2030s. Through bold decisions and inventive technologies, three cities have reached the ambitious climate goals they set a decade earlier. From bike highways to fish lifts, here’s what urban life looks like in the age of kept promises.
The ancient French town of floating gardens
Carved out of the River Somme's marshy hinterland, the Hortillonnages is made up of 110km of slender canals that have led Amiens to be dubbed "the Venice of the North".
Inherent vice: What to do with decaying masterpieces?
What happens when an artwork starts to decay – or is deliberately designed to? Norman Miller explores how galleries and museums meet the challenge of 'inherent vice'.
Break With Tradition
It’s been 100 years since the birth of modernism and its new way of
looking at the world. Celebrate with a city break and see some of the
best architecture of the era.
The UK's heritage apple renaissance
An alarming 81% of traditional apple orchards have vanished from Britain, but activists are planting British heritage varieties in community plots in all shapes and sizes.
The Dutch city testing the future of urban life
With a hotchpotch of neighbourhoods focused on innovative architecture, sustainability and social enrichment, can Almere give us a glimpse of what living in cities could be like in years to come?
A Weaver's Life
Sussex maker Annemarie O'Sullivan harvests her own willow withies, from which she weaves beautiful baskets inspired by ancient traditions.
The animals that detect disasters
For millennia, people across the globe have reported alarmed animal behaviour in the run-up to natural disasters. Could these signals be used to warn us of impending catastrophes?...
The Buildings Made From Rubbish
Extracting materials is wreaking havoc on the planet. Could the world's growing mounds of waste hold the key to sustainable construction? Norman Miller gets digging.
NSFW: Gaze Upon the Horrid Melting Flesh of Neural Network Porn
We’re pleased to bring you a different version of Futurism, containing stories from the horizon of hedonism. Welcome to The Science of Pleasure. Norman Miller meets the artist exploring the strange visions that result when AI learning programs gaze at porn.
Scotland's mysterious ancient artificial islands
While no one is sure exactly why these ingenious islets were constructed, they provide a unique window on human life all the way back to Neolithic times in Britain.
Brighton: The unlikely birthplace of cinema
While Hollywood was still an anonymous LA suburb, one British seaside city was busy inventing the "language" of cinema, during a glorious decade from the late years of Queen Victoria's reign into the start of the 20th Century.
Tartan: The misunderstood icon of 'Scottishness'
Tartan is updating its image in the 21st Century, with new patterns exploring issues around climate change, homelessness – and World War Two dive bombers, writes Norman Miller.
The UK seafood that could send you to jail
On the English Channel Island of Guernsey, people have spent centuries gathering a particular prized mollusc. Today its harvesting is wrapped in strict rules - that led to the world's first underwater arrest...
Cryptic crosswords: A puzzling British obsession
Norman Miller looks at the history of a very British form of language play..
The forgotten foods that could excite our tastebuds
Just 12 plant species and five types of animal make up 75% of the world's food. But at least 30,000 of the 350,000 known plant species on our planet are edible, according to the United Nations' Food and Agriculture Organization. Norman Miller looks at a world of new crops that could transform the global diet.
The theremin: The strangest instrument ever invented?
The theremin sometimes seems like an instrument from Earth’s future or another world. Its music seems conjured from nothing, notes and tones teased and manipulated by hypnotic movements of hand and fingers through air. Meet the only musical instrument controlled entirely without physical contact.
Sisters Are Brewing It For Themselves
A new generation of brewsters are returning women to their historic place in the forefront of beer making.
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