Trends

Supermarkets and grocery retailers are manufacturing cultural cachet from within their existing low-price identity.

Supplements are evolving beyond capsule and powder formats into strips, pouches and patches, making everyday wellness more discreet and convenient.

The rules and institutions that governed global trade, security and cooperation are fracturing as power is dispersed across more actors, but the architecture to manage it has not arrived. The world is being reordered without agreement on what replaces it.

Looking beyond A/C, urban cooling technologies are preparing architectural spaces for hotter climates in global cities.