Blueprint For Living - Separate stories

Ligaya Salazar discusses the evolution of the sneaker style and the influence of social movements and youth culture, beginning with basketball and hip-hop communities in 1970/80s New York who elevated the sneaker from sportswear accessory to cultural symbol through the likes of Run-DMC.

Paul Bangay, garden designer, author of a new memoir,  Paul Bangay – A Life In Garden Design, has almost four decades of experience and is renowned for his mastery of scale, balance, form and colour. He reflects on the evolution of his design thinking and the people and ideas that have shaped his approach to garden design.Find more of Paul's Garden Rudimentals on the ABC RN website.

La Niña behind us, Annie Smithers gives us a tour of a flourishing, late spring kitchen garden, featuring an abundance of tomatoes, lovage, beans and brassicas.

The Mason jar has become a cliché, perhaps, but it remains a symbol of comfort, providing a homespun element in our hard-edged, clinical kitchens. 

Filmmaker and architect, Liam Young says that the scale at which we rethink and design cities needs to be commensurate with the immensity of the climate threat we currently face. He gives us a virtual tour of a his radically re-imagined future city.

Jack Pascoe explains why Australia’s neglect of species and places of cultural significance reflects a failure to care for Country and argues that Traditional Custodians should guide management of these valuable and increasingly threatened ecological entities.

Its arguably one of the most universally reviled features of the plant world but pollen has proven invaluable to detectives in solving crimes, from revelations of war crimes to the identification of murderers.

Forests are places of otherness. Which is why they've long been used for human rituals of all kinds.Like the weddings that take place in Thorncrown Chapel, a magical structure nestled among the trees of the Ozark Mountains in Arkansas.It's a building so attuned to its leafy setting that you might dismiss it as almost glib.And yet, since it opened in 1980, it's proved to be one of America's most popular, and even important buildings.This was first broadcast on August 13, 2022.

The halal snack pack, the capricciosa pizza, the milk bar, the meat pie – icons of the Australian food landscape; and yet none are embraced in the way Americans celebrate the bodega or the cheese slice. Besha Rodell discusses why.

One chef, one cook, one home kitchen: this week, slicing and dicing onions.