This week in PostMag: from architecture to community resilience

This week’s PostMag explores the ever-changing landscape of urban life and the resilience of local communities

Curation is a big part of what we do at PostMag – as with all magazines, of course. How images fit with words, what story should sit next to another, how individual parts make a cohesive whole. It’s a tired word – how many more years will we have to bear the tyranny of “curated collections” or “carefully curated menus”? And yet it’s a process and a skill set that is inarguably necessary in making the vast swathes of ideas, content and just stuff that exist in this world relatable and digestible.

So I’m in awe of Sarah Andelman, who’s been making curation seem effortless since 1997. As Vanessa Lee writes, the Parisian might be unknown to anyone outside the fields of art and fashion, but you’ve likely experienced the impact of her role as pioneer of collaborations and retail curation for almost three decades. Now she’s bringing together artists from around the world – including Hong Kong’s own Kasing Lung and his viral characters, like Zimomo, who he illustrated for our cover – for an installation at the Landmark.

Scholars Jason Carlow and Christian Lange argue in their new book, Cities of Repetition, that these large-scale housing estates each have their own subtle variations, which might be true enough, but I’m still inclined to agree with Carlow when he describes Hong Kong “as a really amazing city filled with a lot of very boring buildings”.

In any case, a house is not what makes a home, right? It’s the family inside and community you make around it. In Nepal, Marco Ferrarese experiences that warmth, alongside jaw-dropping mountain views, on his Mohare Danda trek. The Community Homestay Network is bringing trekkers and locals closer together through homestays in an alternative to the popular Poon Hill route.