Category Archives: AT Post S1

This season, we explored what it means to be alone, the art it helped create, the stories it led writers to tell, the songs that emerged from loneliness and the pain it caused and ultimately the new paths it leads to. Loneliness can lead to inspiration and the stories we heard inspired us and made us think differently about what it means to be alone and how it can bring us together.

Our homes gave us shelter during this pandemic but after the pandemic of 1918, people saw their homes as places that needed to be changed. How will design change our homes post Covid-19 and how will public spaces be the way we connect again with each other?

For centuries, in religious and in secular life, there are people who chose to remove themselves from society. They’re hermits and they have lessons to share about how solitude can lead those of us feeling like we have no purpose towards a new direction in how to be alone.

What we wear sends a message to complete strangers about who we are and what kind of connections we want to have to the outside world. Clothes protect us and connect us to other people.

What we wear sends a message to complete strangers about who we are and what kind of connections we want to have to the outside world. Clothes protect us and connect us to other people.

Crash Landing on You was one of the biggest international hits coming from South Korea last year. Millions of viewers were captivated by the story of two lonely people, one from the South, the other from the North whose relationship is a lesson on how to navigate the geopolitics of isolation.

If you could pick the loneliest music genre of all, what would be some of options: would it be blues or jazz? How about shoegaze. What makes a song lonely and can music bring us closer together even if we are listening on our own.

If you could pick the loneliest music genre of all, what would be some of options: would it be blues or jazz? How about shoegaze. What makes a song lonely and can music bring us closer together even if we are listening on our own.

Science fiction fuels our hopes that we aren’t alone in the universe. From Star Trek to Star Wars, Blade Runner and Minority Report to A Saucer of Loneliness, race relations, alien life, outer space and loneliness are explored.

Imagine your way out of loneliness. It worked for a four-year-old girl during the pandemic when she encountered a fairy name Sapphire. And it worked for Sapphire the Fairy who found faith again in imagination.