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The "Ville de Demain" programme is rethinking what urban life can look like, and a growing network of practitioners is helping make that vision real.
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Forget the gallery circuit, the most urgent contemporary art in France's oldest city is happening on walls, stairwells, and sun-bleached shutters.
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The sea-swimming trend is not just a mood, understanding the physiology behind cold-water immersion might convince you to finally wade in.
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A first-person meditation on how the food we grow up eating becomes a geography we carry inside us long after we've left home.
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In Praise of the Neighbourhood You Always Walk Past
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The Quiet Renaissance of Natural Dyeing
From Marseille's textile workshops to the hills of Provence, a new generation of makers is pulling colour back from the soil.
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The Case for Doing Absolutely Nothing, Correctly
Italians have a word for it, philosophers have theorised it for centuries, and most of us have completely forgotten how to actually rest.
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A personal account of returning to beginner's mind, and discovering what it does to the rest of your life when you are genuinely bad at something new.
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