2011 Archive

  • Story of an African farm
    Opinion • 16 Nov 11
    The untapped natural resources of the African continent are not easily assimilated into global food security issues. >
  • Biting bytes
    Opinion • 16 Nov 11
    “Every day 1.5 billion cups of tea are enjoyed throughout the world” and other things that you didn’t know about your food. >
  • Naked revolution
    Opinion • 16 Nov 11
    Even though he might rightly be regarded as one of the originators of food pornography, Jamie Oliver has never been about overindulgence. >
  • Foraging in 4'33
    Opinion • 16 Nov 11
    The notion of picking one’s own food, especially in urban areas, can seem absurd. Elizabeth Thacker Jones follows “The Wildman” Steve Brill around New York. >
  • The Hungry City by Carolyn Steel
    Food city
    Opinion • 16 Nov 11
    Food urbanist Carolyn Steel argues that cities, like people, are what they eat. She explains how food shapes the cities in which which we live. >
  • Smart art of eating
    Opinion • 16 Nov 11
    Control freaks will be reluctant to hear Brian Wansink explaining how we think we’re a lot smarter than we are when it comes to food. >
  • Food = fashion
    Opinion • 15 Nov 11
    Can what we eat predict the future? Just like the catwalk, our plates are always chasing the next new, writes food trend forecaster Marjan Ippel. >
  • Fit for consumption
    Opinion • 15 Nov 11
    The origins of many of the most ingenious food designs have long been lost in the ubiquity of everyday consumables. >
  • “We will never forget”
    Opinion • 9 Sep 11
    The 9/11 Memorial Plaza by architect Michael Arad opens in New York on the 10-year anniversary of the terrorist attacks of 11 September 2001. >
  • Panoptical
    Opinion • 15 Aug 11
    Photographer Mikhael Subotzky and artist Patrick Waterhouse have been capturing the shifting moods of Ponte City in Jo’burg since 2008. >
  • Endemic systems
    Opinion • 15 Aug 11
    Known for its chaotic masses and vast economic disparities, Mumbai’s slums do not need a bulldozer but an alternative perspective. >
  • The power of 10
    Opinion • 15 Aug 11
    Using the city as the context for design, ExpoTENtial employs creativity as the driving force for a higher quality urban experience. >
  • Of war reborn
    Opinion • 15 Aug 11
    While the remnants of 25 years of civil war clings to the urban fabric of Beirut, the city has managed to reinvent itself slowly. >
  • Design with the Other 90%: CITIES
    Minus 90%
    Opinion • 15 Aug 11
    Design with the Other 90%: CITIES calls on design to address the most critical issues arising from the impact of mass urbanisation. >
  • Shoot from the hip
    Opinion • 15 May 11
    Can one really out hip a photographer? What happens when one hipster calls three other hipsters "hipster"? >
  • Painting Obscura
    Opinion • 15 May 11
    Critics and scholars read Zander Blom’s art as a contemporary South African revision of Modernism. >
  • Diana by CJ Parker.
    Illustrious
    Opinion • 15 May 11
    After years of experiencing a creative identity crisis, South African illustration is gradually coming into its own. >
  • Conviction en masse
    Conviction en masse
    Opinion • 15 May 11
    Susie Hunt writes about China's emerging class of creative entrepreneurs who are leapfrogging the traditional agency model. >