What makes a creative city?
NABA’s Diego Mattiolo on why the famed Italian arts school chose London as its next base.
The delicate art of curation
Lincoln Center’s Shanta Thake on what makes art uniquely human in the age of machines.
Why Palantir needs London
Palantir’s Louis Mosley and Fractile’s Tom Westgarth on why London’s already winning the AI race.
Can movies survive AI?
Pixar veteran Michael Stein on why AI won’t replace movies – but it will change them.
Why where you work matters
Here East CEO Gavin Pool on why proximity is the most underrated competitive advantage in business.
Beauty is serious business
The beauty industry is growing four times faster than the national economy. Millie Kendall says it’s time it was taken seriously.
Shaping the global economy
This Easter special brings together four sharp thinkers to examine the forces reshaping how we create value, spend it, protect it — and whether any of it will matter in the long run.
The London Olympic legacy
Shazia Hussain, CEO of the London Legacy Development Corporation, explains how East London is transforming into an economic powerhouse.
The future of defence tech
Benjamin Wolba’s defence tech hackathons started with a weekend, a borrowed workspace, and 150 people who thought building defence technology might be fun. Two years later, they might just be saving Europe.
Live at SXSW in Texas
Live from SXSW in Texas, Here East’s CEO, Gavin Poole, sits down with Graham Hitchen from Loughborough University to unveil CELL.
The next big transit hubs
Georgina Godwin speaks with travel writer and author Ash Bhardwaj — whose book 'Why We Travel' won Travel Book of the Year in 2024 — about what happens when the geography of flight is redrawn overnight.
Should we prescribe art?
We like to think of the arts as enrichment. Something we turn to when there’s spare time. But according to Professor Daisy Fancourt, that framing is historically recent — and biologically wrong.
The business of climate
Karen Middleton explains how corporate Australia is pouring capital into renewables, battery storage, green hydrogen and grid innovation.
The modern office
Georgina Godwin speaks with Abby Brown, Partner at Knight Frank, about what the London office market is actually telling us as we head into 2026.
A global data outage
Security expert Elizabeth Braw explains how the deliberate mauling of undersea data cables could cause a global communications outage.
The last Sundance
After more than four decades in Park City, Utah, Sundance is preparing to relocate to Boulder, Colorado. For veteran film journalist and documentary producer Bronwyn Cosgrave, it’s a move that feels bold, necessary, and optimistic.
Rise of the middle powers
At Davos 2026, economist Cornelia Meyer saw something subtle but seismic: a shift in global momentum, away from the traditional powers and long-overdue questions about equity, risk, and resilience.
The madman theory
According to historian Dr. James Boys, the madman theory isn’t just Cold War lore — it’s a real strategic concept that continues to shape how world leaders negotiate, posture, and exert influence.
The best of CES
At this year’s CES in Las Vegas, Avi Greengart explored the latest in AI-powered devices, from smart speakers to rollable laptops, and helped separate real innovation from the marketing fluff.
The office needs a rethink
Walk into many offices today and you’ll notice a trend: uniformity. Rows of identical desks, copy-paste meeting rooms, and a muted palette of greys and whites. But according to workplace designer Kay Sargent, this sameness is failing us – especially in an age of neurodiversity and rising sensory sensitivity.