Explore how class and culture influence our food preferences, from divisive dishes like oysters and rotten Icelandic shark to the controversial Vegemite. Learn about the evolutionary significance of disgust in food choices and cultural perceptions of delicious and repulsive foods.

The climate crisis has cast a long shadow over our visions of the future, but what if we imagined something more positive?

From coastal grandma to cluttercore, another day, another hashtagged fashion or design trend comes and goes. Trend forecasters are tracking ever more niche and short-lived styles.

Journalist and author Nathan Thrall takes us to the city he calls the most divided in the world – his home city of Jerusalem; a place of segregated neighbourhoods, 26-foot tall concrete walls, of borders and checkpoints.

Besha Rodell, Chief Restaurant Critic, The Age/Good Food, casts her gaze back on the food scene that was in 2023 and makes her predictions for 2024.

Legend of Australian gastronomy, Florentino’s Guy Grossi makes a simple braised calamari pasta and reflects on the legacy of his parents, the weight of expectation and the importance of tradition.

For a long time, the so called Australian dream of home ownership, produced a uniformity in the kinds of homes that were built and reinforced limits on architectural possibility; Professor of architecture and host of Grand Designs: Transformations, Anthony Burke, discusses the legacy of this and the role of architecture in resisting the homogenising effects of economic insecurity.

Exposed brick, smashed avocado, hanging Edison bulbs, the patina of industry and reclaimed wood furniture – this is the algorithmic aesthetic writer and critic, Kyle Chayka investigates in his new book, Filterworld: How Algorithms Flattened Culture. He discusses the political and psychological implications of this ubiquitous global ambience and what it means to live in a machine-curated world.

Angela Riechers, writer, art director, educator, and author of The elements of visual grammar: A designer's guide for writers, scholars and professionals, discusses the history of Neutraface and explains how and why this typeface became so ubiquitous.

Yanis Varoufakis, former finance minister of Greece and bestselling author, reflects on his childhood in Athens, the complex relationship between modern Greeks and the history of Athens, the transformative potential of a borderless earth, living in multiple countries and its influence on identity, and explores the concept of a borderless world and its impact on our sense of identity and connection to our homes.