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The New Youth Club

Moot is a membership-based third space redefining UK youth clubs for a generation craving real-world connection, culture and community.

Webinars

Anticipating Tomorrow On-demand Webinar

If uncertainty is a virus, then strategic foresight is the best way to inoculate your organisation against it, as we find out in this much-anticipated webinar.

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Regenerative Olive Oil

Citizens of Soil, an innovative olive oil brand, is championing provenance transparency, healthy soils, gender equality and sustainable packaging at a fair price.

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Connected Healing

Dr Jonathan Leary, founder and CEO of Remedy Place, tells LS:N Global how the intersection of social wellness and technology is creating a new era of connected healing.

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Will ASA’s advertising guidelines end the reign of ad land’s nuclear family?

The UK’s Advertising Standards Agency (ASA) has hit out at brands whose campaigns enforce gender roles.

Advertising : Parenting : Branding

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Is Instagram ruining the restaurant experience?

Restaurateurs must decide between brand recognition and brand loyalty.

Food : Drinks : Digital

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Can silence help brands sell?

With silence increasingly a luxury commodity, how can retail brands augment their offer by playing with this idea in-store?

Retail : Silence : New York Times

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What does the rise of injectable cosmetics mean for make-up?

How is the make-up market reacting to consumers approaching injectable cosmetics as an extension of make-up rather than a non-surgical procedure.

Beauty : Digital : Media

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Will modular design soon be mandated?

With electronics brands reluctant to invest in modular design, legislators are taking matters into their own hands.

Technology : Design : Media

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Will our future cities be pollution free?

The technology needed to create carbon-neutral cities already exists, but its implementation requires political willpower.

Technology : Architecture : Design

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Is neuroscience the future of luxury?

At last week’s Luxury Futures Forum 2017, The Future Laboratory welcomed Dr Tara Swart, neuroscientist in residence at the Corinthia Hotel London...

Luxury : Neuroscience : Corinthia Hotel London

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How can brands help clean up urban air?

The lead insight expert for Future Cities Catapult discusses the tactics that councils and companies can use to tackle air pollution.

Sustainability : Place Making : Transport

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Is personalisation the future of bricks-and-mortar retail?

Why consumers will demand ever greater control over the in-store experience.

Retail : Architecture : Digital

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Office dress codes are fast becoming outdated

Why Generation Z won’t stand for gender bias in the workplace.

Fashion : Generation Z : Workplace

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Are luxury brands doing enough to appeal to Generation Z?

With luxury brands rushing to create digital-first campaigns for Millennials, are they also doing enough to prepare themselves for the inevitable r...

Luxury : Fashion : Digital

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Is pollution-free hospitality the future of travel?

As pollution levels continue to rise, the travel and hospitality industries need to consider how they will respond to increasing consumer concern.

Travel : Hospitality : Pollution

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Why do today's homeowners care about air?

Dyson's product development director explains why air pollution in the home is a growing concern.

Sustainability : Technology : Design

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Is Amazon’s new affordable membership good for lower-income families?

With its new pricing policy for Amazon Prime, the company is not addressing the primary needs of that group.

Retail : Food : Digital

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Sanctuary Space: Redesigning the home for the Anthropocene age

How will the home evolve to protect families from the threat of air pollution?

Sustainability : Architecture : Product Design

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Is mixed reality the future of in-bar entertainment?

Why the medium could prove central to the strategy of drinks brands looking to engage Gen Viz consumers.

Drinks : Hospitality : Technology

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Why we need to stop using the term Girl Boss

How the ‘pinkification’ of entrepreneurship is damaging women in the workplace.

Workplace : Equality : Entrepreneurship

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Unmasking Fear

How brands are mitigating negative perceptions of pollution masks as consumers become more aware of the dangers of toxic air.

Design : Wellness : Pollution

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The health impacts of air pollution

The British Lung Foundation’s Harriet Edwards discusses how London’s air quality issues are affecting consumers.

Sustainability : Health And Wellness : Workplace Futures

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Can Kik make cryptocurrencies stick?

The chat platform’s creation of its own digital currency can take cryptocurrencies into the mainstream.

Finance : Social Media : Digital

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