Filmmaker and architect, Liam Young gives us a tour of his radically re-imagined city of the future; Jack Pascoe explains why recognition of cultural significance is required for ecological protection and Colin Bisset on the design history of the mason jar.

Its arguably one of the most universally reviled features of the plant world but pollen has proven invaluable to detectives in solving crimes, from revelations of war crimes to the identification of murderers.

Critic Jill Dupleix on the ubiquity of kingfish crudo and burrata and Carlos Moreno, inventor of the 15 minute city and target of conspiracy theorists on why proximity should be at the heart of urban planning.

The question of what should follow in the wake of the decision t. o end native forest logging in Victoria has exposed deep divisions over how best to manage Australian forests. Professor Michael-Shawn Fletcher discusses. 

Sustainability, wellbeing, placemaking, innovation, liveability: welcome to the hollowed-out language of architecture in the 21st century.

In this edition of Blueprint For Living, an audience with a croissant engineer, a Turner Prize winner, and the car grille. Stay for the buxus party. 

Why do todays domestic interiors mimic 4 star hotels and what might Siegfried Kracauer have said about it? Renown garden designer Peter Donegan on why the hawthorn is his favourite tree; and Annie Smithers with a way to prepare asparagus that is sublime in its simplicity.

Raw meat, egg slonking, seed oil panic and the war on “soy globalism” -  welcome to the dizzying dietary fixations of the alt right.

Alexandra Lange - award winning design critic, writer, author of The Design of Childhood: How the Material World Shapes Independent Kids - reflects on why our cities seem so antagonistic to children and what a city designed for children might look like.

From 'return to the land' rhetoric of celebrity chefs-turned-farmers to the idyllic pastoral scenes depicted on the packaging of supermarket pork chops, 'meat love' - according to cultural critic and writer, Amber Husain - continues to obscure the violence entailed in and political implications of meat consumption. 

A visit to Revival Projects where Director, Robbie Neville, has established Melbourne's first inner-city timber mill and kiln.

The arrival of Wendy's in Australia, a tour of a late winter garden, the implications of our food choices and the history of the Marius sweater

Rummage through the essential cultural ingredients - design, architecture, food, travel and fashion.

George Monbiot wants to turn the global food industry on its head – from radical changes in farming practices to 3D-printed steaks. The prolific writer, environmental activist, and rewilder, explores this and more in his latest book, Regenesis. Then it's time to meet an eccentric, little-known modernist architect who fought conventions and eschewed publicity: Bill Lucas. His friends and colleagues Peter Longeran and Julie Cracknell join Blueprint to find his traces in Australian...

Lucianne Tonti on the decline of a once thriving local industry and the complex set of forces that have produced aesthetic uniformity in the world of fashion. And Tim Entwisle talks to Fergus Garrett, world renown garden designer, about the rewilding of Great Dixter.

The ever-changing food landscapes and never-ending rivalry of Sydney and Melbourne and the growing movement for dam removal and river restoration across Europe.

Professor Laleh Khalili discusses the movement of cargo, capital and cruiseliners across the globe and the human economy and exploitative labour practices upon which it relies.

From the landlord special - beige-grey laminate, vast empty spaces, and colourless walls - to the neutral-coloured knitwear favoured by todays wealthy elite, we discuss aesthetic conformity and homogeneity in the worlds of fashion, architecture and design.

As floods increase in frequency and intensity, do geographical realities need to be at the centre of planning decisions in order to protect flood-prone communities? 

The settler-colonial project involved the imposition of European conceptions of natural landscape on the one hand, and the built world on the other. Jack Pascoe, Owen Hatherley and Michael-Shawn Fletcher consider the legacy of colonialism - its persistent myths and enduring imprint on the Australian landscape.

Tamar Adler explains how to use the Marcella Hazan tomato sauce onion and how to talk about no-waste cooking without moralism; Tom Wilkinson discusses the ideological and political context of the contemporary architectural fetish for decay.

An exhibition that tells the story of design, technology, material and culture and Jeremy Atherton Lin on the history of the gay bar.

The Dell Eco Reef is an innovative and artistic approach to coastal defence, installed in the City of Greater Geelong, combining new technology and knowledge of intertidal ecosystems.  

Rummage through the essential cultural ingredients - design, architecture, food, travel and fashion.

A visit to a workshop where salvaged building materials are repurposed and where a quiet revolution in sustainable design is taking place.