Would you like a glass of cold brew? No, we're not serving up coffee yet, but we're interested in the process of brewing it. Specifically, 'cold brew', where coarsely ground coffee beans are steeped in water for 12 to 24 hours. In that time, the brew slowly takes on colour and flavour, imbibing the essence of the beans.

Good things take time, and this week, we're focusing on the infinitesimal shifts that underpin myriad processes of slow transformation. Artist LuYang draws on Buddhist philosophy and digital identity to reflect on the imperceptibility of human experience. An art critic writes about a trip to Museum Voorlinden in The Netherlands with her toddler in tow, throwing up questions about the elusive balance of play and display in art spaces. The House of Gond by Studio Renesa embeds the

earthy and warm architectural vocabulary of Kerala into the bustling urban landscape of Pune. The site-specific bone sculptures in ABYSSICIDE, designed by Sruli Recht and the RMIT Architecture Tectonic Formation Lab, alchemically turn seawater into a solid material, considering what it might mean for sentient forms to dissolve and intermingle as they contend with the climate crisis.

We examine efforts to rebuild the historic Hatay province after the 2023 Türkiye-Syria earthquake, in the second piece of a two-part series. How does the 'before' define our 'after'? As we slowly encounter ideas, questions and layers during the brewing process, we ask: how does the past inform the future?