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Blueprint for Living is a weekly rummage through the essential cultural ingredients - design, food, travel, gardens, fashion - for a good life.
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Willows, green grass, craft beer, arts festivals and the crispest air - come on a mind journey to Ōtautahi.
A manmade fibre that signalled a shift in our relationship to nature and the great outdoors.
Troy Vettese on the relationship between infectious disease, industrial agriculture and environmental degradation and why meatworks have been at the centre of so many COVID-19 outbreaks.
The strange and cholent-inspired origins of a great culinary invention that, almost a century on, is having a major revival.
The corridor has long been a source of psychic disturbance - from gothic fiction to horror films and haunted houses. So how did the corridor go from utopian ideal to the archetypal stuff of nightmares?
Come on a mind journey to Canberra's great not-so-natural wonder, Lake Burley Griffin, featuring carp, politics and a surprise stopover in Lucknow, India.
A stomach-churning but memorable experience of elevated transportation.
Who would benefit most from going back to life before Coronavirus?
Journalist and author Rick Morton takes us to the harsh, isolated, arid world of far west Queensland where he grew up.
Darra Goldstein takes us north of the Artic Circle where she discovered the true heart of Russian cuisine.
Step into the icy wilderness and come on a tour of the Icelandic capital, featuring cardamom pastries, hot springs and a visit to the phallological museum.
Cartoonish, sexy, menacing, political - the perplexing and varied history of a fashion icon.
From East Jerusalem to Nablus, Haifa to the West Bank, Sami Tamimi and Tara Wigley take us on a tour of Palestinian cuisine and reflect on the relationship between food, identity, displacement and memories of home.
Jonathan Safran Foer talks about the relationship between the production of meat and racial injustice, economic inequality and environmental degradation.
Founder of Forensic Architecture, Eyal Weizman, discusses the reinvention of the city as the site of politics and the use of urban space as a means of surveillance, repression and resistance.
These days the Austrian capital is widely known as the world's most liveable city. But in the cosy, domesticity of that term 'liveability', there's no hint of the drama of Vienna's cultural past.
After a hot, destructive summer, a backyard bird bath could provide welcome respite for wildlife.
"There are no epaulettes in the banya", according to an old Russian saying, but is the pool the truly egalitarian space we like to imagine?
From Marie Kondo to empty imboxes, cleanses and detoxes to light and airy instagrammable interiors, minimalism now touches every aspect of contemporary life. Art critic Kyle Chayka explains its ubiquity and reflects on its philosophical and spiritual origins.
What does street food do for the life and liveliness of a city? Does it's resurgence reflect a desire for a different kind of urban social life?
Come on a mind journey to Brixton, an bustling intersection where diversity, community, gentrification, house music and calypso collide.
Jack Self on the bleak economic compromise and minimalist mystification of tiny homes.
Ruby Tandoh talks about the joys of chicken nuggets, the nihilism of the wellness industry and how we might recover pleasure in a world of food anxiety and fetishism.
A journey through the fraught, messy, complex streets of modern Jerusalem, a city definitively shaped by three very different architects.
Has there ever been a better time to learn about this place, our home; about country, connection, the stories of the land and its people?
From the Zoroastrians of Persia to Harry Potter, the magic wand has endured as a cultural icon.
One chef, one cook, one home kitchen. This week, Jonathan and Annie talk Christmas turkey, pudding, pavs and what to do with a glut of berries.
Photographer and former broadcaster Tim Ritchie on pre-dawn loneliness and the beauty of empty Sydney.
Landscape design, seasonal planting and rural tranquillity; Paul Bangay gives us a tour of his iconic garden.
A bustling, futuristic metropolis with a strong sense of history.
Author Nguyễn Phan Quế Mai takes us to the small rural town where she grew up and witnessed the devastation of war in 1970s Vietnam.
Annie Hastwell takes a behind the scene look at a new travelling exhibition following the history of the lawn, and of that game changer, the lawn mower.
We're not used to thinking of multiculturalism in this country as something that occurred before colonisation, but it was present nevertheless.
From the illusion of epidemiological and economic resilience to social and racial segregation, Plexiglass has become a potent material symbol of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Come on a culinary journey through Montreal, from the world's greatest bagels to maple whiskey, via Leonard Cohen's favourite steak house.
A decline in drinking particularly among young people has been accompanied by the increasing popularity of the mocktail; intrepid producer Buffy Gorrilla has questions and goes in search of answers.
One chef, one cook, one home kitchen. This week, we tap into the COVID-normal zeitgeist and get some hot tips on how to do summer picnics.
Phaius australis, once found throughout the wetlands of the Queensland coast and hunted to near-extinction, is reanimated in a new installation by curator, plant lover and plant philosopher, Danni Zuvela.
The aromatic molecules behind your favourite food pairings, from strawberries and balsamic, to orange and chocolate and possibly even oysters and kiwi.
Golf courses have become sites of contest, where urgent questions around public space, environmental protection and community in rapidly growing cities are being played out.
There was a time in travel culture when internet cafes and travel agents reigned supreme.
Colin Bisset and Jonathan look back on the first two decades of design since 2000, through the lens of materials, trends and innovation.
Fashion and sustainability journalist Clare Press discusses the challenges faced by the fashion industry during this period.
Landscape sociologist Claire Collie joins Blueprint to chart our cities trajectories over the last two decades.
Gardening Australia's Millie Ross traces gardening trends, from backyard blitzes to indoor plants and reflects on her own journey as a gardener.
From food court dumplings to rooftop martinis, Alhambra to Compton, we take a journey through the sights, sounds and flavours of LA.
Half of Kangaroo Island was lost to blazing bushfires last summer; but with Australians confined now to the continent, local producers are enticing visitors to South Australia's stunning Mediterranean style island.
From the coolth of fern valley to the arid world of succulents, via spring time viburnums, Jonathan takes a tour of the botanic gardens as the seasons start to change
On her 80th birthday, the great doyenne of Australian cooking reflects on her life in food, restaurants and words.
From farmers markets to taco trucks, Bel Air to Compton, we take a journey through the sights, sounds and flavours of LA.
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