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RK Collective on circularity as a question of time, not just materials. Why almost every brief asks who a product serves today, and almost none asks who inherits it in five years. On the 5R framework, NSW's 2026 battery stewardship scheme, and what regulation is actually telling design to price in.
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RK Collective on designer resilience, systems thinking, and the gap between good intent and working outcomes. Resilience is not what you design for communities. It is what you have to cultivate in yourself first. Issue 004 introduces Recognition, Relationships, Resilience.
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RK Collective on circular design, repair culture, and material storytelling. Things are cheap because we borrow credit from the future. Issue 003 explores the true cost of things, design as an act of solidarity, and a chair made from Melbourne protest fabric that carried the handwriting of Iranians.
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RK Collective on capacity building, participation in practice, and circular design that goes beyond good intentions. What good leadership actually looks like inside complex projects.
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This month we're sitting with duality. Nowruz falls as Iran faces war. We're questioning what circular design really asks of us, and delivering furniture made from ancestral fabrics at SIT Café, Sydney. Honest notes from the studio. No easy answers.