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Careers, Identity

Who we say we are at work

At work we edit ourselves: our names, our stories, our weekends. The edits are small, and they add up.
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Culture, Design

Design that remembers

Buildings, objects and interiors can carry memory as surely as stories do. The best of them make room for the people who will live with them.
By gaelle
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Leadership, Spaces

The room where decisions are made

Every organisation has a room where the real decisions happen. Who gets in, and who is listened to once inside, shapes everything that follows.
By gaelle
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Business, Careers

Money, risk and the first hire

Starting something is a financial decision long before it is anything else. Some of the most useful early choices are also the least glamorous.
By gaelle
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Culture, Travel

Travelling home, travelling back

For many of us a trip home is never only a holiday. It is a check on who we have become and who we left behind.
By gaelle
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Culture, People

The sounds we carry home

Music is often the first thing to travel and the last thing to be lost. It tells people where they are from before they say a word.
By gaelle
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Community, Spaces

Places that keep us together

A hall, a market, a barbershop, a square. Communities are held together by places that rarely get credit for it.
By gaelle
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People, Relationships

Friendship, family and ambition

Ambition is often described as a solo act. For most of us it is a group project, with family and friends carrying more of the weight than we admit.
By gaelle
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Two African contemporary dancers suspended in mid-movement inside a brutalist concrete gallery in Dakar
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Sample headline for a culture story that wraps onto a second line

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