“Chocolate” represents a diverse category of products with distinctive and delicious flavors, often with pleasant “mouth feel,” and a range of sweetness. These items are mostly enjoyed as luxury foods and beverages, but for many people, chocolate is a “priority indulgence.”
Dilip da Cunha integrates history, art, cultural studies, hydrology, and geography to tell the story of how rivers have been culturally constructed as lines ...
With the appetite for chocolate at an all-time high, this should be a time of prosperity for cocoa farmers. But it's not.
Welcome to the 43rd issue of The Funambulist. Many contributions in our 42 issues have mobilized directly or indirectly the question of diaspora; yet, we never dedicated a full issue to the topic…
Cacao Farming in Ghana, Varieties, Requirements, and Techniques, Climate Requirements for Cacao Cultivation in Ghana and more
Ghana’s trade surplus narrowed last year as revenue from cocoa and oil shipments declined.
Welcome to the 44th issue of The Funambulist, which we are dedicating to desert epistemes and political struggles from its peoples. It is however important to problematize this very term “desert…
Image 1 of 36 from gallery of House BT / Research Studio Panin. Photograph by Spaceshift Studio
Welcome to the 50th issue of The Funambulist. For the very first time, the magazine is published both in its original anglophone version and a brand-new francophone edition. The idea was not so much…
Oxfam says world’s biggest chocolate firms are failing to deliver on promises to raise farmer incomes
Image 21 of 42 from gallery of Wyndham Clubhouse / MIA Design Studio. Photograph by Trieu Chien
The cocoa supply chain is a bittersweet one. While chocolate is a beloved sweet treat globally, many cocoa farmers are living a bitter reality.
The interior design project of Sentosa house sought to balance materiality and proportions on an existing house by intervening surgically in each corner.
Image 1 of 42 from gallery of Wyndham Clubhouse / MIA Design Studio. Photograph by Trieu Chien
Image 8 of 27 from gallery of Earth House / earthLAB Studio. Photograph by Leo Espinosa
Image 1 of 36 from gallery of House BT / Research Studio Panin. Photograph by Spaceshift Studio
To start the month of December off we wanted to announce something new and exciting created by our Platt College library staff and our head librarian, Nicole Lewis. Calliope is […]
Image 15 of 23 from gallery of Vigna Maggiore / Orma Architettura. Photograph by Julien Kerdraon
Image 24 of 33 from gallery of Yunomori Onsen and Spa | Sathorn / Sixseven Studio. Photograph by W-Workspace
Graphic design is communication, it’s cultural and commercial wayfinding. It’s economic and transactional: business cards, storefronts, concert posters, book jackets. Designs have to communicate…
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Completed in 2021 in Hermosillo, Mexico. Images by César Béjar. The configuration of the project was born from the intention to generate a simple volume with a pure orthogonal...
The interior design project of Sentosa house sought to balance materiality and proportions on an existing house by intervening surgically in each corner.
This modern, São Paulo, Brazil residence was designed by Studio Guilherme Torres to provide uninterrupted flow to the gardens complete with pops of yellow.
Pisos de pedra cinza, detalhes em madeira, vigas de aço e caixilhos marcam projeto assinado pela arquiteta Jannina Cabal
Image 7 of 23 from gallery of Vigna Maggiore / Orma Architettura. Photograph by Julien Kerdraon
LOCATION: Valencia, España. Project: Francesc Rife Studio Photo: David Zarzoso IG: @francescrifestudio Although it was a coincidence that this housing project was completed in the middle of autumn, the romance between the colors of the season and the Canadian cedar wood allows it to be seen at its finest. A lattice system that surrounds both […]
Completed in 2018 in Meenambur, India. Images by Sneha Vivek. The Context Minambur is a Muslim dominated village in the Southern part of India. The village was formed during the time of Raja Tej Singh of the...
The Radical Makeover House, designed by the architectural firm Sudaiva Studio, is a residence in a nondescript, small town north of Bengaluru.
Image 18 of 21 from gallery of House Peacock / BHSF Architekten + Studio P. Courtesy of BHSF
The long read: Fairtrade changed the way we shop. But major companies have started to abandon it and set up their own in-house imitations – threatening the very idea of fair trade
