The Land of the Dolls is where we belong. But I want to grow up. There are a million things I want to do. People to meet, worlds to explore. I’ve always wanted to dance. I do love you, but I can’t stay in the Land of the dolls forever.

wo mysterious bodies in the forest in Mexico. They live in a cave. Nobody knows their names or where they come from. Seems they‘ve met a very long time ago in the forest, so they have some arms with them. Some residents living nearby said a lot of people saw two ghosts wandering in the forest.

As climate change wreaks havoc around the world, it may feel sometimes that we are doomed as a species. But with human ingenuity and resilience, the awareness of the dangers facing us on the part of the younger people everywhere, and with the right political decisions, there are plenty of reasons for hope.

“I come from a Faraway Realm, where all the wealth in the world can be found. I crossed deserts and mountains, I braved the sea and ocean, to come here and tell my story…”

In an apocalyptic future, the vestiges of the world as we know it today form a scrap heap of artefacts that tell a tale of a human touch no longer needed in a society driven by automation. Yet the latest show of the American artist Josh Kline is more hopeful as well as a wake-up call for us to revere the living.

Urban life is going through a radical change. We are transforming the way we live and how we work. Sustainability is becoming an occasionally tedious buzz-word of the era, but it means so much more than simply electrification and a question of CO₂ emissions. It is a call for general action that some companies take seriously – just like MINI

Meet musicians Kleerup, Mapei and Linn Koch-Emmery as you’ve never met them before, as their personalities are interpreted as newly fashioned Schweppes cocktails. The Forumist interviews them to get the whole picture.