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Eaten Away By Ants Architectures of Decay and Repair
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Food Forecast: Flood
an abstract, multicolored fire of red, yellow, orange, purple sparks and burns across a black background.
Essay
Fire as design Caring for Country as planning
An image showing a book with post it notes poking out of the side. There is an illustration of an acorn with a pencil to the side of the book.
Bookclub
Mold Magazine Earthseed Bookclub: Ch. 14-20 Cooperative Strategies for Building Future Worlds in Octavia Butler's Parable of the Sower
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AI and Food How will AI shape the future of food?
Bookclub
MOLD Magazine Earthseed Bookclub: Ch. 9-13 Navigating Change through Gardening in Octavia Butler's Parable of the Sower
Bookclub
MOLD Magazine Earthseed Bookclub: Ch 1-8 Seed Saving and Survival Planning in Octavia Butler's Parable of the Sower
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From Within How ferments might foment us
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(Re)Negotiating Utopias and Dystopias In Building New Worlds
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Sowing Abundance with Beacon Food Forest
Essay
The Banana Leaf is a Container Technology May the way we interface with the world be one of right relationship
In Case of Emergency Seed Saving as a Strategy for Disaster
Interview
Planting a Food Forest Stewarding the Beacon Food Forest, one of the largest food forests in the US
Two rocks, vacuum sealed together in a coating of plastic sit amongst green plants.
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The Minimum Viable
Profile
The Struggles and Triumphs of a Philadelphia Fishery Community
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Finding Harmony in Entropy One Gardener's Journey to Designing Systems for Change
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Challenging the Cult of Monoculture Toward Biodiverse Thinking
Editor's Note
Earthseed Revisiting Octavia E. Butler's Legacy
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Food Forecast: Geoengineering
Profile
Dreamers and Book Printers From Uruguay to Sweden, the history of the radical Nordan/Tryckop print press
Interview
Building a Solidarity Economy Cooperation Jackson is planting seeds for self-determination through times of crisis.
Interview
Methods & Provisions: Molding new models for healing with Wen Liu The Artist Embedding Herbal Medicine Into Her Sculptures
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Between the Cracks Weeding out Aesthetics
Profile
Organisms Democracy is Practicing an Interspecies Politics Power sharing as civic performance
Interview
The Ecological Solidarities of La Ferme du Rail Networks of care and relationships grow an urban farm and community hub north of Paris.
Editor's Note
On relational architectures
Interview
Methods & Provisions: Making Room for Mess with quori theodor
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Queering Conventional Conservation Ecology's Basis in Bias
Essay
Food Forecast: Melt Preserving Permafrost and the Right to be Cold
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The Abolitionist’s Artist Way How Recess is modeling an abolitionist vision for the arts.
Essay
Harmonizing Contradictions and Porous Thinking What design, contrast, curiosity and humility can teach us about cultivating coexistence in an age of intolerance.
A woman wearing a white shirt stands in front of shelving units with a a sewing machine and spools of yarn.
Methods & Provisions: Cultivating Microbial Fashion Futures with Rosie Broadhead
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What is Information? How queering knowledge offers new ways to understand the world around.
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It’s Time To Compost the Prison Plantation  Visioning Abolition With Prison Agriculture Lab
Essay
Food Forecast: Fire Sparking Food Futures From Good Fire to Biochar
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THE ABOLITIONIST’S FIELD GUIDE A conversation with jackie sumell
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Farming for Survival Behind Bars A Conversation with Lawrence Jenkins
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An Agricultural History of Cop City On Land, Memory, and Abolitionist Possibilities
On Abolition Editor’s Note
Essay
The Supermarket Sublime
Essay
Food Forecast: Salt Surviving Salinity
Essay
The Future of New York’s Street Vendors A New Policy Proposal Paving the Way for Street Vending in the City
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Designing for Informal Food Systems Learning from New York's Fresh-Cut Fruit Vendors
Podcast
Street Vendors Are Here to Stay
Acorns and corn kernels sit on a mirrored tray set in a bed of leaves of weeds.
Essay
The Edible Miniature: Tiny Cooks and the Microbial Cosmoses
Editor's Note
Street Vendors Fight to Make Space For Themselves Editor's Note
Interview
Methods & Provisions: Maintenance and Memory with Young Grace Cho
A minimalist collage of of an interior space.
Essay
Death and The Lightness of Being as Design Cornerstones for Climate Action
A digital drawing of several buildings framed by flowering vines.
Profile
INHABITING THE MARGINS WITH ROBIDA COLLECTIVE The young designers building community in a rural village on the Slovene-Italian border
A bundle of fruits coated in olive-colored wax sits next to another yellow beeswax-coated mound which sits on a bed of crushed ice. They are presented on a reflective silver platter found amongst lush greenery.
Essay
Meal Replacements and Ascetic Diet Cultures From Soylent, to mock duck, and HMRs
Methods & Provisions: Reconnecting to Nature With Lily Kwong
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Two McFlurries and a Red Flare One Chef's Fast Food Ritual
A metal box containing beeswax sculptures that form curlicues lies in a bed of long grasses.
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Portal Foods Ergot and Collective Imagination
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The Trouble With Ferments as Medicine The Science Behind Our Latest Gut Obsession
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Finding Erewhon A History of "America's Most Expensive Grocery Store"
Editor's Note
Health. Food.
Profile
Methods & Provisions: Time-Keeping with OnYee Lo
Three angular beeswax figures sit on rock-flecked sand.
Essay
Terraforming: Eating the Underground Cooking In Communion With the Earth
Interview
Collective Consciousness with ruangrupa ruangrupa's farid rakun on searching for new models of existence in documenta fifteen
Interview
Found in Translation Creating Space for the Hyperlocal with Robert Sukrachand and Chef Eve Palasak
Interview
A Moveable Feast On Restaurants and Resiliency with Jonathan Nunn and Isaac Rangaswami
Interview
Africa — A Designer’s Utopia Builds a New Design Archive Nifemi Marcus-Bello And Tunde Wey on Lagos' "Anonymously Designed" Objects
Editor's Note
Decentralized Design
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Frolicking Through Edible Graveyards A hybrid model for urban cemeteries to honor the departed by feeding the living.
Preserved lemon cut in half sits atop a green aluminum can on its side, the whole of the objects are layered in melted beeswax that has since dried.
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Cooking for the end of the world On Preppers and Preservation
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The Eternal Fountains of the Eternal City Hydrating with the historic public water fountains of Rome
A puddle of beige clay with terracotta clay shards in it sits on tambarked ground. There are grasses around the perimeter of the clay
Essay
The Recipe Commons
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(De)Colonizing Food Systems WAI Think Tank on Colonialism as a Driver of Climate Change
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Countering Green Capitalism with Ancestral Technologies James and Joyce Skeet of Spirit Farm on Integrating indigenous wisdom into systems thinking
On a white table cloth there are five sets of bread sculptures. In each set there are three of the same shape. Of the five shapes there is a wand-like shape, a twisted snack, a stick, small disfigured cones, and knots. The table cloth is set ouside against the hint of a verdant forest background.
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Mythmaking and Magic in Votive Foods
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Fertilization Fixation Designing alternatives for agriculture's nitrogen fertilizer problem
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Restriction as Possibility; Lifestyle as Politics
A photo collage on a beige background that includes an elderly couple holding trash bags, the stone face of an ancient roman statue, a palm tree blowing in the wind, and an oyster with a pearl in it.
Anti-sustainability rethinking ‘the S word’ in favour of environmentally abundant rituals
An illustration of an aztec garden structure, with an aztec pyramid at the top and a field of corn at the bottom.
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Territorial Cities of pre-Columbian America An interview with architect and urban historian Ana María Durán Calisto
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On Rural-Urban Systems
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Ecologies of Labor in Pasta Mapping (re)productive labor
Editor's Note
Unpacking the IPCC Editors Note
An aerial image of a methane processing plant.
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Economies of Excrement: Cow Pat Energy The possibilities of poo and how one Cornish engineering firm is offering British farmers a chance to enter the energy market
Adaptive Reuse as a form of Cultural Construction Kristoffer Ardeña’s Ghost Painting series weaves together the material of our every day lives.
metal forks and spoons woven together on a green background.
Essay
Why Have There Been No Great Worker-Owned Restaurants?
An illustrated, wheelchair-bound figure is constrained in a box set on an ombre black-to-blue background. The corner of a white bowl sits in the upper left hand corner.
Profile
Towards True Hospitality Aleem Syed's Food Truck breaks the "Cycle of Exclusion" by Designing for Disability
A blue and white sign with OPEN written in all black capitalized letters hangs in the window of a glass door, the sign is made of rhinestones.
Interview
Manhattan’s Most Anticipated Queer Potluck What Telly Justice and Camille Lindsley Have Yet to Tell You About HAGS
Essay
Carry On: Reimagining Sustainability A meal represents a web of entanglement between nature, culture and people.
Line Cooks Are Designers
Editor's Note
Work in Progress
Profile
Methods & Provisions: Designing Dreamscapes With Suea
Various objects and imagery (including stone sculptures of female nudes, a crushed plastic water bottle, a three-legged chair made of harvested ocean plastics, disembodied hands pouring a tiny jug of water, and an image of a lush forest landscape) collaged onto a sparse perspectival line drawing on an off-white background.
Essay
Animism: A Love Story for Longevity
A hyperrealistic explosion of fire hued blades, floats and stems of a frond of seaweedoccupies the entire frame of the image.
Interview
Tasting Algae in the Dark Growing algal futures and Singapore's food sovereignty with food waste
Essay
Nightcrawlers Shedding light on the world of nocturnal pollinators
Various objects and imagery (including stone sculptures of female nudes, a plastic bag with mushrooms growing from it, a cake and pile of seaweed set on top of a patch of grass, and a picture of molten lava flowing in a black landscape) collaged onto a sparse perspectival line drawing on an off-white background.
Essay
Our apocalyptic responsibility as creatures and creators
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In Service of Moonlight A Brief Introduction to Biodynamics, The Moon and The Cow Horn
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When Form Follows Fantasy On a Deconstructivist Nightlife
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Eating in the Night Season How Sámi Reindeer Herders Endure the Long Winter Nights through Multispecies Collaboration
Editor's Note
Nightlife
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Endangered Kitchen: Meat Missiles
Profile
Methods & Provisions: Recentering with Zacariás Gonzalez
Essay
From the Micro to the Macro: Biodiversity as Social Structure
Interview
Water Futures With Anthony Acciavatti Infrastructure as Monument in the Ganges River Basin
Profile
Methods & Provisions: Free-Diving With Faith Kim A designer on her time with Jeju Island's Storied Haenyeo
METHODS & PROVISIONS: TRIANGULATING IDENTITY WITH GRAPHIC DESIGNER ORYSIA ZABEIDA
Recipe
REQUIRED READING: State and Revolution Lenin's Legacy + A Recipe for Barley Pudding
Essay
What Makes Your Salmon Pink & Other Mysteries of the Modern Plate Unraveling the Politics of Food With Cooking Sections
Recipe
Farm-to-Tray, 7 Miles High in the Sky
Recipe
REQUIRED READING: Blood in My Eye Remembering George Jackson + A Recipe for Spicy Goat Stew
Recipe
REQUIRED READING: The Revolution Cannot Triumph Without the Emancipation of Women Thomas Sankara on Gender Equality + A Recipe for Sesame x Eggplant
Recipe
REQUIRED READING: Combat Liberalism Mao Zedong's Legacy + A Recipe for Steamed Beet Cakes
Profile
Reimagining the Side Hustle Alt Economy Provides the Tools for A New Informal Economy
Recipe
REQUIRED READING: Parable of the Sower Revisiting Octavia Butler + A Recipe for Acorn Lemonade
Essay
Live Streaming the Farm to the Table How Pinduoduo and Kuaishou are connecting farmers to consumers in China
Profile
Methods & Provisions: Meeting Mirna Bamieh The artist behind Palestine Hosting Society on cultural memory, rituals and Fairuz
Profile
Grasslands and the Gut Eating, Evolution and Ecology with Arjun Potter
Essay
SOCIAL SYNERGIES: Sharing in Scarcity, Sharing in Surplus Our Future Lies With One Another
Essay
Endangered Kitchen: The Halloumi Rebellion Squeaky cheese and a divided country's shared culinary heritage
Comestible Symbols of Redlining and Making Baltimore’s Food Web Visible Krystal Mack on her social design studio and new approaches to Baltimore's foodways
Essay
Building Agricultural Solidarity in Response to Ecological Precarity How Community Supported Agriculture Bridges the Urban Rural Divide
Essay
Cities as Refugia for Ecosystems Adrift How the built environment can serve as future habitat for species under threat
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Urban Anglers An aquatic comeback in London's waterways
Profile
A Sense of Place The Soft Protest Digest on creating dishes to embody a city's past and present narratives.
Editor's Note
Urban Ecologies
Essay
Social Synergies: Ritual Awakening Designing new rituals to celebrate an ever-evolving food ecosystem
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The Sound Food Makes The complexities and paradoxes that emerge when David Velez listens to food
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ENDANGERED KITCHEN: The Ice Cream Interlude How Cornish Ice Cream Can Provide A Way Forward for the British Dairy Industry.
Essay
SOCIAL SYNERGIES: Restaurants Without Walls
Essay
Communicating Over Distance, Grounded in Place As restaurants turn to e-commerce and online experience, can design afford a sense of belonging and community across a digital divide?
Interview
New Appetites and Tastemaking Mayukh Sen on the past and future of food writing
Interview
Practicing Pleasure Philosopher Kate Soper on post-growth pleasure.
Profile
The Future is Now Alyshia Gálvez and Sean Sherman on building indigenous futures
Project
Star Route Farm is Farming Against This Mad World A farm's transition to mutual aid
Profile
Farming Small With Big Veg Gerald Stratford on big veg and the internet's hunger for self-sufficiency.
Interview
Degrowth in Demand Lexie Smith and Jamie Tyberg on degrowth, decolonization, and agriculture.
Editor's Note
Degrowth A new editorial series from MOLD exploring Degrowth.
Essay
Pão e Política Reclaiming heritage grains and "real" bread in Portugal
Essay
Graphic Design and Local Food Ecologies A new column exploring how community is in continual need of creative attention
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Hopeful Vines Climate change and experimentation marks the third wave of English wine making.
LEAD
Endangered Kitchen The Scottish Seafood Signal