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Musician and artist Khadija on empowering others by turning her identity into a superpower

Emma Hammar — Thu, 03 Nov 2022 14:52:00 +0000

Through creating music and experiencing her artistic path as an endurance sport, Khadija has grown to love her process. Transforming her idea of what it means to be an artist and the concept of failure, she’s learned to trust her intuition and to become more patient—with herself, her art, and her journey. After joining Khadija

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Transforming a love of home-cooked food into a successful online delivery service with Chi You

Emma Hammar — Thu, 26 May 2022 15:00:00 +0000

Chi You is an innovative and passionate cook who turned her interest and love of food into a thriving business. Chi recognized the need for a home-cooked food delivery service in 2020 and thought of a way she could meet that demand. She is now the proud founder of Personal Chef Berlin, a weekly meal-prep

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From online blog to full-time job: documenting local businesses and independent culture with Mary Scherpe

Emma Hammar — Tue, 17 May 2022 15:00:00 +0000

In March of 2006, Mary Scherpe co-founded the blog Stil in Berlin. She began by photographing and writing about local street style and in the process loved engaging with strangers and discovering her new city. An art-history student at that time, Mary grew more and more interested in writing about local culture for a global

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The Journal Collective magnifies underrepresented visual stories on its online platform

Aimee Shirley — Tue, 26 Apr 2022 15:11:00 +0000

In March of 2020, photographer Charlotte Schmitz, founder of The Journal Collective, had the forethought to question who would create the visual record of a life-changing, global moment. As a curious and ambitious artist, she was fascinated by how daily life was starting to shift and what that meant for her fellow photographers and their

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Remade Network’s Sophie Unwin is scaling up repair culture through social enterprise

Aimee Shirley — Mon, 21 Mar 2022 06:16:00 +0000

If it’s broken, fix it. Over the decades, this radically simple principle has been abandoned in the tailwinds of capitalism’s rampant trajectory. Charting the course for its revival is Remade Network, the three-year-old Glasgow-based social enterprise empowering community agency and digital inclusion through electronic repair, recycling projects, mending workshops, and job creation programs. For Remade’s

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Redesigning the future of the office workspace with NORNORM founder Anders Jepsen

Aimee Shirley — Mon, 07 Mar 2022 13:30:00 +0000

Just as no person is an island, no chair, table, or any piece of furniture exists in isolation. Each object that makes up our everyday environment is part of a complex ecosystem shaped by resource extraction, global supply chains, and a linear economy defined by eventually disposing of the old and re-buying the new. The

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Stefan Diez’s circular philosophy sets a new blueprint for industrial design

Aimee Shirley — Sun, 20 Feb 2022 13:20:00 +0000

What if the disposable could give way to the steadfast? Extraction to replenishment? Depletion to regeneration? If the future belongs to those who dare to dream, Stefan Diez’s version looks bright. Working at the forefront of his generation, the industrial designer has been quietly realizing his vision for a circular economy, manifest in his iconic

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The quiet activism of the Lissome founder Dörte de Jesus

Jenna Duffy — Wed, 06 Oct 2021 12:25:00 +0000

In every project she takes on, Dörte prioritizes joy and space for rest and contemplation as she seeks ways to nourish her authentic sense of wonder and intellectual curiosity. From her home in Berlin, she speaks openly about practices that promote balance, her sources for inspiration, and the pact she made with herself to never

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Michael Andersen and Jeppe Christensen disrupt the kitchen industry with their reformative approach to design

Jenna Duffy — Tue, 05 Oct 2021 15:00:00 +0000

It may seem like a strange turn of events for a business marketing executive and a construction engineer to suddenly enter the kitchen industry, but for Michael Andersen and Jeppe Christensen, it made complete sense. “I’ve always been interested in design and architecture,” says Christensen, who first conceived the idea for the kitchen company Reform

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Anti-war Journalist Julia Leeb and the Impact of the Unseen

Jenna Duffy — Tue, 31 Aug 2021 12:35:00 +0000

This interview is part of “A Different View On Cosmetics,” a content series produced with organic skincare brand Dr. Hauschka. These female creatives challenge conventional ways of thinking within their fields.

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