To play or not to play is no longer the question. Kick-started by the rise of computer games, play is becoming a dominant cultural paradigm. Play is not just for children, nowadays generations are all playing together. The more digitalised the world, the greater the craving for the human aspect of everyday life and leisure.
Shared living has made a big come-back, and not limited to students only. The benefits of co-living are described as the “3 E’s” – Environmental, Economic and Emotional”. Urbanisation and the increasing number of singles and elderly will expand this life of communities into more shared living and more shared experiences. Humans are naturally social.
Everybody may remember the exciting feeling in one’s childhood when a new comic book came out. Well, as visual culture is taking over, comics are getting more and more part also of the grown-up world. Comics are used in political, religious and social contexts. Comic Republic, a Nigerian comics startup based in Lagos, is