Blueprint For Living - Separate stories

When Bee Wilson’s husband of 23 years left her, amidst the shock and grief, she wondered if she’d been paying attention to the wrong things: a lifetime of food and cooking suddenly acquired a new significance.

What comes to mind when you think about the word wilderness? For many, it conjures up images of pristine, wild landscapes untouched by humans. But increasingly, the term's being recast, as environmental records show that 'wilderness' is a relatively recent phenomenon.

Architecture critic, Owen Hatherley, discusses his book, Artificial Islands - Adventures in the Dominions which explores the legacy of British-designed cities - some of the most purely artificial landscapes in the world - and the ways in which cities like Melbourne and Auckland are today reimagining their own history.

As Victoria announces the end of native forest logging we talk to Jack Pascoe about the imposition of European style land management on the Australian landscape and what a future Victorian forest should look like. 

It's been dubbed the landlord special: beige-grey laminate, vast empty spaces, and colourless walls. Architecture correspondent for The Nation and author of McMansion Hell, Kate Wagner on the emergence of a disturbing new anti-aesthetic and the cultural and economic conditions in which aesthetic conformity is produced. 

Blueprint's resident chef Annie Smithers returns with another edition of Kitchen Rudimental, this time revealing her obsession with knivesAll that time spent cooking has meant that Annie is well attuned to the melodies of the kitchen, including that of a resonant sharp knife.Kitchen Rudimental is series from Blueprint where chef Annie Smithers and Jonathan Green head into the kitchen to chat, cook and bake their way through the skills that will help make you a more confident home cook.Find more of Annie's past Kitchen Rudimentals here.

With its ridges of soft, tufted cotton woven onto a cheaper base cloth, it combined softness and warmth with strength, making it comfortable to wear and popular with farmers and factory workers alike. It even had a kind of utilitarian chic when used by the Women's Land Army in the First World War, which saw women working in agriculture across Britain, filling the gap left by farm hands enlisted to fight abroad.

From Gwyneth Paltrow’s court-core to Logan Roy’s baseball cap, Kirstie Clements, author and columnist at The New Daily, discusses what has been identified as the latest fashion trend - stealth wealth.

Laleh Khalili on the movement of cargo, capital and cruiseliners across the globe and the human economy and exploitative labour practices that facilitiates it.

Lauren Oyler, author and essayist, recounts her reluctant journey into Goop at sea, featuring dry skin brushing, holistic skin care, and a searching moral inventory with a psychological astrologer.