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Navigating in a connected world

Alex Lee ponders the promising ideas, stalled projects and pricey gadgets that aim to help visually impaired people get out and about. But it seems that an actual human could be the essential ingredient.

  • Interview

How to design an HIV awareness campaign

Using carefully crafted, colourful graphics is one public health team’s creative approach.

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How to rehabilitate the concrete jungle

A huge concrete housing estate from the 1960s, now seen as an ecological mistake, is being drastically redeveloped, compounding the environmental errors. Owen Hatherley posits a more creative solution.

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Generation portraits

Photographer Julian Germain’s major project focusing on portraits of multi-generational families came to a sudden halt during the various Covid-19 lockdowns. Here families celebrate coming together again in words and images.

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  • William Hunter: his home and anatomy school in 16 Great Windmill Street, London, England. Photograph by Grove Son and Boulton after a watercolour.
  • St Christopher's Church, the Bank of England, and St Bartholomew the Great, London: the western entrance, with a woman walking through. Engraving by J. Jackson after J. W. Archer.
  • Lobelia cardinalis L Campanulaceae Cardinal lobelia Distribution: Americas, Colombia to south-eastern Canada. The genus was named after Matthias de L’Obel or Lobel, (1538–1616), Flemish botanist and physician to James I of England, author of the great herbal Plantarum seu Stirpium Historia (1576). Lobeline, a chemical from the plant has nicotine like actions and for a while lobeline was used to help people withdraw from smoking, but was found to be ineffective. It was introduced from Virginia to John Parkinson in England by John Newton (1580-1647) a surgeon of Colyton (aka Colliton), Devon, who travelled to Virginia. Photographed in the Medicinal Garden of the Royal College of Physicians, London.
  • Lobelia tupa L Campanulaceae Tabaco del Diablo [Devil's tobacco]. Distribution: Central Chile. Dried leaves are smoked as a hallucinogen by the Mapuchu Indians of Chile. It was also used as a respiratory stimulant. The genus was named after Matthias de L’Obel or Lobel, (1538–1616), Flemish botanist and physician to James I of England, author of the great herbal Plantarum seu Stirpium Historia (1576). Lobeline, a chemical from the plant has nicotine like actions and for a while lobeline was used to help people withdraw from smoking, but was found to be ineffective. Photographed in the Medicinal Garden of the Royal College of Physicians, London.
  • HIV & AIDS : services for everyone / Hounslow.
  • HIV & AIDS : services for everyone / Hounslow.
  • HIV & AIDS : services for everyone / Hounslow.
  • Do you live in West London? : Are you affected by HIVand AIDS? / Ki-Rin West London HIV Centre.
  • Do you live in West London? : Are you affected by HIVand AIDS? / Ki-Rin West London HIV Centre.
  • Do you live in West London? : Are you affected by HIVand AIDS? / Ki-Rin West London HIV Centre.
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