Hopepunk: a messy, counter-cultural, collective kind of optimism.

Welsh for that wonderful sense of identity you get from your home landscape.

The zen principle of simplicity, here in a Cambridge variant.

That profound realisation that everyone is their own complex universe.

It all started in 1970, in this young architect’s sketch.

On one chart: everything that does (and can’t) exist. Amazing.

Imagination: not just how we invent Santa Claus, but how we understand the world.

Literally, other-sounds: the music of Britten in Curlew River.

Remue-ménage - the commotion that can lead to positive change.

Expo 58 - a fair of optimism, whose pavilions are still looking good in Brussels and Prague.

Lund - one of thousands of places for transnational education...

This is the logo for Arte Util - the idea that are should be useful.

In Spain this month. Could it happen here too?

Doggerland - the ancient bridge between Britain and the continent.

Eco-brutalism: concrete plus plants

Hierophany - a manifestation of the sacred - and why it matters in branding.

Lots of different ideas, side by side, with no central big idea: that’s the dialogic way.

How a new kind of mud can make greener houses

No green in this image: perfect for greenhushing…

What are crenels and merlons? The image is a clue…