Crossing
Thresholds
Issue

Whether played out in urban or natural landscapes, or in our very homes, Peeps Issue 02 brings readers stories of how people around the world are negotiating thresholds: how we all struggle to know where our “turf,” and our areas of responsibility in this world, begin and end. Editorial

Not Wanted on the Rue Saint-Denis

The Rights of the Whanganui River

Being Together with Strangers

Research Mixology

Insights

The Fantasy of Rick’s Café

What we think we know about Casablanca, one of the most iconic cities in popular culture.

Insights

Syntax in the City

An urban design expert explains the science behind the signs and symbols of cities.

Insights

Welcome to the Cyber Village

How Indonesia’s RT 36 Taman Kampoeng (or Kampoeng Garden) became Kampoeng Cyber.

Insights

On the Origins of the Bathroom Lineup

Why the lines for women’s washrooms are always longer than men’s.

Insights

Orbiting the Imaginary

What images come to mind when you think of a future that includes human beings living in outer space?

Insights

Art and the City

An urban anthropologist examines how the public engages with Situated Cinema.

Editorial

Introducing Peeps Magazine Issue 02: Crossing Thresholds

Editorial for Peeps Issue 02 – Crossing Thresholds.


Archives

Forum World Affairs

Hong Kong, Democracy and Cultural Myths

Myths provide a sense of purpose in a complex world, and fundamentally, hope for the future. These are the myths of Hong Kong.

Magazine

Mobile Autonomy

How the mobile revolution is challenging traditional gender roles in India.

Culture Curation

Art Meets Futurism: “What Would Leonardo da Vinci Think of the Future?” ↗

Sapiens.org / 05.02.2019

In honor of the 500th anniversary of da Vinci’s death, historian Stephen E. Nash examines the artist’s forward thinking work: from pioneering cartography to the roots of virtual reality in paint.