Our editor-in-chief takes a look at the current issue.
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About the weddings of the Qashqai nomads in the Fars province.
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About a special animal from Costa Rica
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About a special parade in the Philippines.
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In the north of Norway, citizens are protesting against a planned copper mine.
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Welket Bungué, born in Xitole in the south of Guinea-Bissau in 1988, is an actor and filmmaker. After living and working in Portugal and Brazil, he now lives in Berlin.
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This house is on Kassari, an islet in the Baltic Sea that is connected by causeways to Hiiumaa, the second largest island in Estonia.
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Curator Bonaventure Soh Bejeng Ndikung reflects on the meaning we give to the things we make. A conversation.
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The Sámi from Scandinavia know how to build a house. For 4,000 years they have been building goahtis to withstand the harsh climate.
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How organic rubbish is turned into tableware in Bangkok.
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Weaving with flax is a traditional Māori handicraft which remains popular today.
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Why it’s high time for society to rethink its throwaway culture.
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Debbie Barberee and Holly Cypret from Florida turn plastic bags into mattresses for sleeping. A conversation.
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From flawless craftsmanship to clumsy do-it-yourself: our ideas of “homemade” are wide ranging.
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How a traditional Chinese technique of building boats has won over tourists from around the globe.
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How to turn discarded household appliances into new furniture.
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Cultural history rarely commemorates home-made objects – even though they often have extraordinary tales to tell.
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Cooking and baking with solar energy: An oven that needs neither electricity nor fuel.
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Israeli designer RONEN KADUSHIN explains, why he makes his designs freely available on the internet. A conversation.
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Make an instrument that sounds like the sea: a mbira.
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What would a DIY issue look like without our editors also making something? Our trainee takes on the challenge of creating a home cinema out of simple materials.
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While politicians in the USA and Europe discuss herd immunity and booster shots, many African countries are still lacking vital vaccines. Once again, the West looks the other way.
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Radio host and journalist Waheedulaah Orya reported from the Afghan city of Mazar e-Sharif – until the Taliban threatened his life. From his exile in Greece he describes watching in disbelief as they recaptured his home country. A conversation
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For a year, thousands of farmers converged at the gates of the Indian capital, demonstrating against the government's agricultural reform. Their tenacity finally paid off, with the surprise announcement that three controversial farm laws would be withdrawn.
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Whether shares, ETFs or cryptocurrencies: During the corona pandemic, young people have flocked to investing. Will this lead to a rude awakening - or a secure pension?
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No qualifications but you still want to study? The “Socrates” project in Berlin, Vienna and Budapest makes it happen.
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A majority of Bolivians support the government's plan to take control of lithium production and build it up on a large scale. But the plan has yet to bear fruit.
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I think that the lives of people with disabilities are still not valued as much as they should be. Here in the United States, news of the daily COVID death toll...
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The great English historian A.J.P. Taylor once said, “Men only learn from history how to make new mistakes.” That may be too pessimistic a view. I think we have...
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Can the climate crisis still be halted? Christiana Figueres and Tom Rivett-Carnac, authors of the Paris Agreement, are determined to keep looking forward.
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The author Sergei Lebedev talks about Russia’s internal conflicts, fear as a form of political pressure, and the craft of writing.
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The Vietnamese author Nguyen Phan Que Mai tells a family tale from her war-ravaged land.
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Louise Erdrich talks about resistance by indigenous peoples in 1950s America.
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