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Behaviours

Gen Z in Australia

Amid fractious global politics, national housing shortages and looming recession, Australia’s youth are connecting via grassroots activism and new ...

Australia : Gen Z : Loneliness

Markets

Authentic Avatars

Meet the innovators adopting an intersectional approach to make digital avatars more authentic.

Gaming : Pop-culture & Media : Technology

Micro Trends

Indigenous Influencers

Digital inclusion must mean embracing Indigenous culture. There are lessons in this for all businesses striving to embrace inclusivity.

Technology : Media & Entertainment : Society

Micro Trends

Fine Dining Redefined

A number of new restaurants are transforming fine dining, helping it to shed connotations of exclusivity through community-orientated initiatives.

Food : Drink : Luxury

Design Directions

Divergent Design

Designers are reframing the narrative surrounding neurodiversity from disability to hyperability through rich visual noise and joyful stimulation.

Design : Intersectionality : Health And Wellness

Micro Trends

Care Collectives

With collectivism on the rise, new spaces informed by traditional ideals of kinship are turning care into the next pillar of wellbeing.

Society : Health & Wellness : Beauty

Macro Trends

The Betterverse

The metaverse has become the new multi-trillion-dollar digital frontier for all that is immersive, engaged and virtual. Here we examine how organis...

The Metaverse : Media & Technology : Society

News

Black Beyond centres Black femmes in the digital art space

Art collective Black Beyond was founded in the midst of Pride and Juneteenth in summer 2021 to re-imagine Black femme futures in the world of digit...

Media & Entertainment : Youth : Design

Viewpoints

Gen Z are shaking up the elitist art world

The art world is on the cusp of major change. Here’s how Paul Hill, the 22-year-old founder of Strada, is empowering the next generation of artists...

Youth : Luxury : Art

Macro Trends

Redemptive Diets

Brands and consumers are uniting to build future-fit food systems that support changing social values, protect precious resources and secure supply...

Food : Drink : Society

Viewpoints

Designing for the future’s Equilibrium Cities

The Future Laboratory and creative network Dutch Invertuals are exploring how design can foster Equilibrium Cities – urban zones where collective o...

Design : Sustainability : Creatives

News

Sport’s largest movement to end disability discrimination

#WeThe15 by design studio Pentagram and advertising agency adam&eveDDB aims to break down barriers so all persons with disabilities can fulfil thei...

Sports & Leisure : Society : Media & Entertainment

Markets

Eyewear Market

After the shock of Covid-19, the eyewear market has its sights on enhancing physical retail, more inclusive optical designs and wellbeing-led eyeca...

Fashion : Design : Intersectionality

News

Spotify diversifies its podcast audience with transcripts

Streaming service Spotify is introducing automatic transcripts to podcasts, enabling wider audiences to access its audio-based content.

Media : Technology : Intersectionality

News

H&M’s pride campaign unlocks LGBT+ history

The fashion retailer is highlighting the meaning behind the universal LGBT+ rainbow symbol through an awareness-building, history-led campaign.

Advertising : Intersectionality : Pride

Viewpoints

For brands, Pride must be a long-term strategy

With a mission to democratise LGBT+ media, Tag Warner, CEO of Gay Times, discusses how brands can navigate Pride month and beyond.

Youth : Identity : Media

News

Gay Times hands the reins to Gen Z

Gay Times has recruited a group of young queer creatives to create content for its newly launched TikTok channel.

Media : Youth : Intersectionality

Viewpoints

Why brandsplaining is retail’s new battleground

Brands continue to market to women using sneaky sexism and corporate feminism tactics, say Jane Cunningham and Philippa Roberts, co-authors of new ...

Advertising : Retail : Society

Viewpoints

We must re-centre wellness on POC experiences

Poonam Dhuffer, founder of self-awareness platform YSM8, says it’s time for the wellness to re-centre on Black, brown and POC practices and lived e...

Health & Wellness : Intersectionality : Society

Micro Trends

Affirmative Banking

As the pandemic spotlights conversations about financial equality, new fintech disruptors created by and for intersectional communities are emerging.

FinTech : Technology : Finance

Viewpoints

Building hotels that uplift Black culture

The co-founder and chief innovation officer of Homage, a growing US hotel chain, are centring the Black hospitality experience on rest, healing and...

Hospitality : Leisure : Music

Viewpoints

It’s time sexual wellness got real

The most interesting part of sexual wellness R&D is how it’s helping us to better understand human sexuality through an intersectional lens, writes...

Health & Wellness : Seuxal Wellness : Intersectionality

Viewpoints

Brynn Wallner on future-proofing luxury marketing

The founder of Dimepiece, a platform educating women about luxury watches, says brands are failing to promote luxury as an investment.

Luxury : Youth : Branding

Macro Trends

Equilibrium Cities

Citizens are demanding a more receptive and equitable built environment that will allow future urban generations, nature and businesses to thrive.

Future Cities : Health And Wellness : Intersectionality

Viewpoints

The future according to: Azeema magazine

From creating a magazine for MENASA womxn to offering agency services, Azeema’s founders discuss the necessity of accurate media representation.

Youth : Media : Advertising