Making

essayArchitecture
The replica and the original
Architectural copies of lost structures require reckoning with history and heritage. At what cost is the past rebuilt?
Elizabeth Kostina

videoMaking
On the Norwegian coast, a tree is transformed into a boat the old-fashioned way
6 minutes

videoNature and landscape
California’s landscapes provide endless inspiration for a woodcut printmaker
10 minutes

videoHistory of technology
Replicating Shakespearean-era printing brings its own dramas and comedy
19 minutes

essayDesign and fashion
When luxury is good
The waste and exploitation of fast fashion shouldn’t blind us to the joys of making beautiful clothing with care
Roger Tredre

videoMaking
Forging a cello from pieces of wood demands its own form of virtuosity
27 minutes

essayAnthropology
Your body is an archive
If human knowledge can disappear so easily, why have so many cultural practices survived without written records?
Helena Miton

videoMaking
Trek to a remote Himalayan village where artisans craft teapots fit for kings
11 minutes

essayConsciousness and altered states
Acid media
How perforated squares of trippy blotter paper allowed outlaw chemists and wizard-alchemists to dose the world with LSD
Erik Davis

videoArt
From a pencil sketch to cherubs dancing in stone – recreating a Donatello work
7 minutes

videoDance and theatre
How a Noh mask-maker summons a lifelike face from a single block of wood
16 minutes

videoDesign and fashion
Refined towards imperfection – a ceramic artist recreates a rare Korean treasure
15 minutes

videoMaking
From log to Go board – the world’s oldest game, made the old-fashioned way
20 minutes

videoDesign and fashion
From sheep to sea – an ode to the iconic sweater that warms Cornish sailors
4 minutes

videoFood and drink
From set-up to close, a day at the farmers market is a whirlwind sensory feast
10 minutes

videoRituals and celebrations
From roaring fire and molten glass an artist creates a healing ritual
13 minutes

videoMaking
Ceramic designs spin to life in a tactile meditation on the art of pottery
9 minutes

videoArchitecture
How the Dorze in Ethiopia make ‘beehive’ houses from bamboo that last a lifetime
35 minutes

videoTechnology and the self
‘Perfection is for the gods,’ and this sculptor gets to a thousandth of an inch of it
14 minutes

videoInformation and communication
There are many ways to make a flat map of the world – each of them a unique distortion
10 minutes

videoMaking
How sky-high dreams launched one man’s audacious life in homemade rocketry
5 minutes

videoArchitecture
Cultural wisdom begets cozy temporary homes for the Nenets of the Siberian Arctic
32 minutes

essayArchaeology
The clothing revolution
What if the need for fabric, not food, in the face of a changing climate is what first tipped humanity towards agriculture?
Ian Gilligan

essayArt
Changed by art
Gazing at a painting feels like an almost magical encounter with another mind but what real effects does art have on us?
Ellen Winner