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The intimate and invasive art of ethical taxidermy

Does displaying dead animals bring us closer to nature, or drive us further apart?

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When everyday environments become anxious spaces

Social anxiety disorder isolates those who experience it. Part of the solution is to design public spaces with mental health in mind.

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Domestic titans

Feeling trapped by the idea that an impenetrable carapace of space trash could surround the planet, Elvia Wilk turned to thoughts of the new worlds still to be revealed here on Earth.

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Chemical highs and psychedelic research

Could recreational drugs make you happy? Kate Wilkinson explores why keen clubber Simon believes taking psychedelics has helped him develop as a person.

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  • A naked man sitting in a wooden chair rises to a standing position and turns. Collotype after Eadweard Muybridge, 1887.
  • A young uniformed man sitting with a pillow on his chair, facing a machine giving electro-magnetic treatment; a nurse holds his head in position. Photograph.
  • A mechanism to enable invalids to lift themselves up into the sitting position in bed. Engraving by A.W. Warren, ca. 1820, after H.W. Reveley.
  • A woman, naked above the waist, sitting on the ground with her legs stretched out to her left, rises to a standing position, a folded paper in her right hand. Collotype after Eadweard Muybridge, 1887.
  • Directorscut : positive : [man sitting in Rodin's 'Thinker' pose] / photo: Nick Wright.
  • Directorscut : positive : [man sitting in Rodin's 'Thinker' pose] / photo: Nick Wright.
  • Three women of different cultures sit smiling against a window to represent an advert for Positively Women. Colour lithograph.
  • Peter Zamara, an HIV positive man, sits leaning against a baseball post holding a ball; a poster from the America responds to Aids advertising campaign. Lithograph.
  • A woman and a man sitting on a sofa with a man sitting on the floor and another standing representing counselling for those with HIV/AIDS; advertisement by the World Health Organization for living positively with HIV. Colour lithograph, ca. 1995.
  • Frankie Alston, an HIV positive woman, sits with one knee up on a bench looking out to sea; a poster from the America responds to Aids advertising campaign. Lithograph.
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