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Photograph a man sitting whose face in half in shade and half in sun at the Barbican Centre, London.
LionHeart at the Barbican Centre, London, Thomas SG Farnetti. © Wellcome Collection. Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0).
  • In pictures

How the city lives inside me

Artist Murugiah illustrates his urban environment and the feelings of being consumed, falling, squeezed and trapped.

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The female fight to reclaim our space in the mosque

Salma El-Wardany tells of the fight to reclaim spaces for women in the mosque and further afield.

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We are from here, but not from here

Novelist JJ Bola on being a refugee with a British passport and what that placenessless means for a search for identity.

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This is what changed my approach to interior design

An interior designer examines how emotions and cognitive activity influenced her designs, and argues that spaces reflect the people within.

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How I escaped my anxiety and depression through architecture and poetry

Social anxiety led him to introversion and silence. The brutalist architecture of London’s Barbican Estate inspired his liberation in poetry.

About the editor

Photographic head and shoulders portrait of LionHeart.

Rhael ‘LionHeart’ Cape

LionHeart is a TEDx speaker, international spoken-word performer and author of the poetry collection ‘The Mute’s Rebellion’. He is the first poet-in-residence at Grimshaw Architects and The Building Centre, and explores architecture and poetry’s relationship in a research project on emotional inhabitancy.