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How to have less stuff

Do your possessions hold too much power over you? Learn to regain control – and benefit your wallet and the planet

by Melissa Norberg

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Lab at the edge of the world

When my daughter was bullied, I decided to homeschool her. A chain reaction ensued

by Lea Page

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Thoreau’s economics: the truly precious costs precious little

As Henry David Thoreau learned from living at Walden Pond, the paramount economic skill is knowing how to make a house a home

by John Kaag & Jonathan van Belle

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ARCHITECTURE

An elegy and a celebration of what it really means to find a home

Directed by Davina Pardo

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PARENTING AND FAMILIES

Pregnant women ‘nest’. But there’s nothing biological about it

The ‘nesting mother’ stereotype is as common as it is unscientific: there is no hormonal drive for doing housework

by Arianne Shahvisi

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ARCHITECTURE

The sink in the hall: how pandemics transform architecture

From the sink in the hall to the UV light in the bus depot: how pandemics past and present can transform architecture

by Theodora Philcox

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MEMOIR

Love, shame and 325 bags of trash

In my mother’s hoarding house, I found something I wanted to keep

by Deborah Derrickson Kossmann

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Life on Bruny Island, population 750, is suffused with trade-offs and joys

Directed by Guido Pezz

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PAINTING AND SCULPTURE

Born of memory and mystery – the otherworldly works of a self-taught, unhoused artist

Directed by Tal Amiran

HAPPINESS

Pierre is French, but loves his adopted home in Greenland. Can he stay?

Directed by Nicholas Jones

Claymation figures in a desert, including a man drumming on a barrel and others with makeshift vehicles and a gramophone horn.
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Endearingly weird wax figures inhabit a musical journey of self-discovery

Directed by Daniel Quirke

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Freedom, joy and struggle – stories of Los Angeles street life

Directed by Chung Nguyen

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FREEDOM AND CHOICE

Pablo has a simple dream – to spread joy. But the reality is more complicated

Directed by Daniel Ifans

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HOME

How war destroys the childhood sense-scape we call ‘home’

What we grow up with determines the gestures, textures, spaces, sights, smells, sounds and thoughts we call ‘home’

by Julia F Christensen

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HOME

In an elegy for his childhood home, a filmmaker constructs a lyrical collage of memory

Directed by Damian Gascoigne