Local

Residents, rather than government or major telecom companies, lay their own fibre. Such efforts are quietly growing at the world's margins. From Sawara, we consider what it means to own an invisible connection.

Railway viaducts long sheltered the city's gaps: warehouses and bicycle parking. As cafes and skateparks take their place, the question of how to treat spare space also reaches towns such as Sawara.

Knowing a place deeply changes how we see the world.

Small shops and old facade-fronted buildings: walking as a way of reading local culture.