Ricky Schodl

Family Matters

My neighbourhood toy shop was a special place. There were floor-to ceiling piles of board games, stuffed animals, and no

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#17 From the borders of the union

Life with migrants

Snow is falling over Lipa, a temporary camp for migrants, 30 kilometres away from the city of Bihać in Bosnia and Herzegovina. It snowed last night and it’s snowing again tonight.

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#17 From the borders of the union

Will they come for our fish?

In 2019, a harness-clad Icelandic performance group named Hatari appeared on the Eurovision song contest stage to perform their song Hatrið Mun Sigra (Hatred Will Prevail). Through screaming, singing and strobe lights

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#13 Designing (for) Humans

Plattenbauromantik

One sunny afternoon in June, Clara Rogowski stood at the base of a 16-storey apartment block on the outskirts of Leipzig. As she pointed her iPhone upwards, her screen framed a familiar motif. Rough washed-concrete panels

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#13 Designing (for) Humans

Design for life

“When the project came up, I knew we had to take it,” says Professor Jo-Anne Bichard about Our Future Foyle. The urban intervention aims to redesign the river area in Derry, Northern Ireland. In the city with the highest suidice rate in the UK, the Foyle and its namesake bridge are notorious spots for people taking their own lives. The Northern Ireland Public Health Agency (PHA) commissioned a team of designers to revitalise the area, and prevent cases of suicide.

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#13 Designing (for) Humans

Home First

In the huge Library of Gender Studies—a feminist non-profit organisation in Prague—Alexandra Doleželová struggled to find any data on women’s poverty in her home country of the Czech Republic. After sharing her thoughts

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#13 Designing (for) Humans

Waste world

Buildings keep us warm, allow us to gather, and are often sites of idea- generation. They are places of residence, comfort and safety. But they come at a huge environmental cost. The construction industry accounts for 38%

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#12 Online Lies, Offline Lives

Diary of a Troll Hunter

Hello, I’m Oleksandr.
I’m a so-called troll hunter, and part of an online army of people fighting disinformation

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#10 the Sports Issue

Devon’s Baptism of Fire

Hidden in the verdant valleys of Devon, a rural county in South West England, lies Ottery St Mary. A textbook English countryside town, the average

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#10 the Sports Issue

Welcome to the Wild West

The old cultural centre smells like sweat and bratwurst. Middle- aged dancers in Western wear arrange themselves into neat lines around me. A bouncy girl with pigtails and

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#12 Online Lies, Offline Lives

The Whistleblower Whisperer

Angela Richter is a German-Croatian theatre director and journalist who has interviewed some of the world’s most notorious whistleblowers, including Julian Assange and Edward Snowden. I asked her to explain her vision of a world without secrets.

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