Blueprint for Living is a weekly rummage through the essential cultural ingredients—design, architecture, food, travel, fashion—for a good life.
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Saturday 4 Feb 2017
Ditch the diet, just retrain your brain, sounds simple but does it work?
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How do you rid your gardens of those pesky creatures- the common garden snail?
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Growing up in a gold rush!
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Powered by poo and pedestrians? Design meets science in our future cities.
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We explore the intricate world of the cooking knife with British author Tim Hayward.
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When you move house, you not only say goodbye to a home, but often to a garden as well.
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Saturday 28 Jan 2017
The story behind the world's most famous gown.
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Where will our food come from if our cities continue to expand?
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Divine beauty in numbers.
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If you want to get to know a place, get out and walk.
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Crime author Adrian McKinty takes us to his home turf, Northern Ireland.
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This Lunar New Year why not learn how to prepare and eat that most intimidating of Chinese dishes, chicken feet?
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Colin Bisset takes us to the opera in Paris for his latest iconic building.
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Tuesday 24 Jan 2017
When design becomes opportunity, architecture through the eyes of a burglar.
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Author Don Watson shares how the Australian landscape has shaped his life.
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Saturday 21 Jan 2017
What would food taste like if we took bitter away?
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Author Beth Yahp takes us to the country of her birth, Malaysia.
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We explore the cultural meaning of garden ornaments, from the pink flamingo to tyre swans and concrete kangaroos.
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Vegans, there is a new egg white substitute in town.
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The Einstein Tower outside the German town of Potsdam remains Erich Mendelsohn's best known work.
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Saturday 14 Jan 2017
British author, and former hotel reviewer, Joanna Walsh recounts what she learned from her time living in and out of hotel rooms.
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We learn the fine art of making the perfect porridge.
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How would you like to share a laundry and a vegie patch with 30 of your neighbours?
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Australian author Charlotte Wood tells why she feels at home in Rome
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Saturday 7 Jan 2017
Author Paula Hawkins transports us to Paris to share her gap year memories.
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Why do some communes thrive and others fall apart?
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Whale sharks in Honduras, Wolverines in Finland, we bypass the Galapagos to take you to the other great places to experience wildlife.
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Does an apple a day keep the doctor away? If so why?
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Remember walls? They were like big modular space dividers only they stayed in one place. Just like workers used to.
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Saturday 31 Dec 2016
Former NY Times food critic Ruth Reichl shares the recipes that saved her life.
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Tim Flannery takes us deep into the Prince Willem Ranges in Indonesia for this week's Sense of Place.
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A Melbourne cafe is helping deaf students prepare for life in the workforce.
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What do Jamaican Dub and typography have in common? Typographer Stephen Banham thinks quite a lot.
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An ethereal and gravity defying beauty.
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When is a calorie a calorie and should we bother counting them? Well it depends...
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