“Incorporating art, design and culture into co-living spaces can help residents to feel rooted and inspired. They are no longer just looking for a place to live; they want to belong.”

Fang Low Figment, Singapore
Monocle March 2025

Style and substance both matter, remember. To think otherwise is to underestimate people and condemn our many-hued world to miserly monochrome.

Josh Fehnert Monocle’s editor. Monocle Minute March 2025

Sisyphean
Denoting or relating to a task that can never be completed

Rather than helping humans, fully automated objects actually limit our capacity to respond. I like to interact with life, with the world.
watchmaker David Rodríguez
Galicia, Spain
Monocle December 2024

If you were told you had six months to live, whose hand would you want to hold.

Nigel Latta

Cicero wrote, “To be ignorant of what came before you is to remain forever a child.”

“I dream of never being called resilient again in my life. I’m exhausted by strength. I want support. I want softness. I want ease. I want to be amongst kin. Not patted on the back for how well I take a hit. Or for how many.”

Poet Zandashé l’Orelia Brown

Everything in nature is about flow, he reminded me: wind, water, energy, even people. Yet for the past century or so our cities have been built to disrupt these flows.

Cities are bad for us. Let’s fix them, Rasmus Astrup, Monocle December 2024

If you listen to music on streaming services, you can go for hours without doing anything. But if you play a record, you have to stand up and turn it over. It’s mindful."

Record Industry’s chief financial officer
Mieke Vermeulen

Monocle December 2024

“I hope that every time I say something, somebody raises their hand and says, ‘No, I don’t agree’, because that starts a conversation to take better action.”

Luca Fuso, the CEO of Italian furniture maker Cassina
Monocle December 2024