The Stories
Second acts, first person
Long-form profiles of people who changed fields and kept their curiosity. New stories every week, organised by the discipline they left and the one they found.
The Architect Who Grows Her Buildings
Ines Valdés-Okafor left glass towers behind to grow walls from fungus. Her structures are now outlasting her critics.
Listening to the Brain Sing
In a basement lab in Reykjavík, Saoirse Lindqvist turns the electricity of sleep into string quartets.
Robots That Learned to Dance
Nkechi Moreau-Hale teaches machines to move like people, and people to move with machines.
The Economics of a Well-Made Chair
Tomasz Achterberg left the central bank to prove that slow production pays. He publishes the receipts.
A Typeface Is a Term Sheet
Ren Isobe-Carvalho draws alphabets for subways and writes cheques for founders. She says the two jobs are the same.
Fieldnotes from the Cold Water
Halvard Ostrom dives beneath the Norwegian Sea with a notebook and a large-format camera. Both are data.
Code, Thread and the Long Patience
After selling her software company, Amaya Khoury went home to the loom. Now she weaves with datasets.
The Kitchen as a Laboratory
At a twenty-seat restaurant in Copenhagen, Dov Ferreira-Lund cooks dinner and models the regional food economy.