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

Culture World Affairs

Afrofuturism Answers Back to Afro-pessimism

Dr. Mich Nyawalo shares how Arofuturism, a powerful art movement that identifies innovative spaces of power and opportunity, has evolved as a response to afropessimism, a limiting and reductive narrative. He examines how Afrofuturism has become a sophisticated aesthetic through the award-winning work of Wanuri Kahiu and her film Pumzi.

World Affairs

Talking Across Difference with Virtual Reality

Polish-born Canadian VR filmmaker Joanne-Aska Popinska talks to Peeps about the inspiration for her ambitious VR project sharing the stories of women who have had abortions. Her hope is to create a space of safe engagement for people who might otherwise not understand the complexities and challenges involved in making the decision to practice their reproductive rights.

Business Curation

The Water-Cooler Problem ↗

Sapiens / 01.28.2016

Company success and employee satisfaction depend on social ties that are hard to forge in a globalized era.