TOPIA Magazine

Ten million ways Turkish chef Ebru Baybara Demir brings hope The Basque Culinary World Prize 2023 winner proves social gastronomy drives progress on Turkey’s Syrian border – empowering women in Mesopotamia When you think of the figure ‘10 million’, what springs to mind? Ten million euros acquired jackpot style, the population of a large city or a Macklemore tune?

The exciting future of art in space Why do we need art in space? Gravity-obsessed innovator Miki Sode (whose art really has been into space) is shooting for the moon on a mission to create a better world In TOPIA series My World of Good, revolutionaries imagine better ふわっと fuwatto Japanese (noun) – the state of floating in the air or weightlessness Miki Sode was 15-years-old when she got the “space bug”.

The world’s first autonomous plant, nourishing space food, mock tomato cell-based meat, hoodies that protect against bio threats, sense-enhancing electro-popsicles, iridescent chocolate and a motivation mirror; these are just some of the playful inventions created by the Futurity Systems. Fun? Yes, but this is frivolity with purpose.

Meet the creators of the world’s first autonomous plant In TOPIA series My World of Good, revolutionaries imagine better “The best way to predict the future? Invent it.” Futurity Systems The world’s first autonomous plant, nourishing space food, mock tomato cell-based meat, hoodies that protect against bio threats, sense-enhancing electro-popsicles, iridescent chocolate and a motivation mirror; these are just some of the playful inventions created by the Futurity Systems. Fun?

Recipes for the brain with a sensory food designer Fancy some digital seasoning? Laila Snevele believes that the key to developing a passion for food lies in experiencing it with all our senses – welcome to the Sensoverse! In TOPIA series My World of Good, revolutionaries imagine better The audible crackle of a crusty bread as it is torn apart. The sight of fiery red chilli pepper. Steam rising from a bowl of hot soup. The visible layers in a decadent chocolate cake.

Marvel comic writer Ryan North takes us to the cosmos In this exclusive sci-fi short, prolific author and comic writer Ryan North imagines he’s reviewing a space-cation aboard the ‘Starview Spaceway’ Taking over the world is a lot of work. Any supervillain is bound to have questions: What’s the perfect location for a floating secret base? What zany heist will fund my immoral plans? How do I control the weather, destroy the internet, and never, ever die?

When living in outer spacebecomes a reality In this Carl Sagan-inspired sci-fi short, space philosopher Sabine Winters imagines the first small communities of nomads forming beyond the Kármán line This future-set fiction addresses the present from the year 2030 The Kármán line defines the edge of space and the beginning of outer space and is named after the Hungarian-American engineer and physicist Theodore von Kármán, who first calculated its altitude in 1951.

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AI is all the rage right now – there’s an unspoken reason for that Generative AI isn’t going to change everything, but it will change an awful lot.

Universal Everything embraces technology to generate endless joy The pioneering digital design collectivecreates generative artthat loops beyond infinity.