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Culture & Media

Digital Rewilding

In a post-algorithm world, personal curiosity leads and crowdsourced tastes and preferences are beginning to step back.

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Culture & Media

Future Museums

Museums are transforming through immersive technology, sensory storytelling and community-centred programming, reshaping visitor experience and redefining the future cultural landscape.

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Fashion

Innovation Debrief 2025: Craftsmanship Safeguards

As forecast in our Luxury Recrafted and New Codes of Luxury macrotrend reports, brands are becoming taste-makers and patrons of the arts by investing in the preservation of craftsmanship. From teaching ancestral know-how to emerging talent to digitising artisanal techniques for longevity, your favourite brand is already acting as a museum curator.

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Retail

Culture-coded Retail

Digital commerce may offer consumers convenience, but a new generation of in-person retail experiences energised by cultural relevance and built on brand community is luring them back into the store.

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Culture & Media

Foresight Friday: Fiona Harkin, director of foresight

Every Friday, we offer an end-of-week wrap-up of the topics, issues, ideas and virals we’re all talking about. This week, director of foresight Fiona Harkin dives into the bear pit and the tween mobile phone trap.

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Colliding Technologies

Amazon partners with IMDb to gamify streaming

With so much content available at our fingertips, choosing a TV show or film can often be a daunting process.

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Culture & Media

Daily Paper’s playlists solidify its sonic identity

The fashion brand is tuning into the powerful medium of music and becoming an official curator on Apple Music.

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Retail

Micro-mmunity Retail

Retail brands are swapping flagship and big-box store formats for downscaled neighbourhood shopfronts with services curated to the needs of local shoppers.

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Fashion

Abstract body of work

Wakefield – JW Anderson has curated a new exhibition at The Hepworth Wakefield.