A once significantly smaller arts and culture sector is stepping out of the shadows. At a recent Vision 2050 consultation, policymakers, artists, and academics explored how creativity can shape the nation’s future, balancing heritage, innovation, and economic growth. From theatre to publishing, gymnastics to urban design, the long-overlooked Cinderella sector is finally being recognised as central to Malta’s social and economic story.
Continue readingMedTech World Europe: Connecting Innovation, History, and the Future of Healthcare
Established and growing in Malta, MedTech World is positioning the island as a strategic hub for medical innovation. By blending a forward-looking vision with Malta’s long history of connectivity, care, and resilience, the company is shaping how the next decade of healthcare innovation will unfold.
Continue readingRadiation in Medicine: Balancing Benefit and Risk
What if an invisible energy could both reveal disease and help cure it? From diagnostic scans to targeted cancer therapy, radiation drives some of medicine’s most powerful tools. Understanding how this force can both benefit and harm patients is key to using it safely, responsibly, and to its greatest clinical advantage.
Continue readingDear Woman: An Intimate Archive of Becoming Woman
Dear Woman gathers letters, objects, and voices into an intimate, intergenerational archive that traces the transition from girlhood to womanhood through care and collective listening.
Continue readingTreasure Hunt: Deciphering What’s Done
Words are one of, if not the most, versatile tools one may employ. They may serve to sway opinions in favour of one’s own, express original knowledge to which one may be credited, and even prolong the memory of an individual long after life’s end. In a sense, words are worlds. However, there is one condition. For words to have power, people need to understand the language. Unfortunately, this isn’t always the case.
Continue readingThe Art of Access: Dusk Dialogues and the Language of Understanding and Meaning-Making
‘Dusk Dialogues: Conversations on Accessibility’ was a talk which revealed the parallels across the domains of art and education, as both rely on imagination, storytelling, and embodied experience to make ideas more accessible. Speakers Prof. Adrian-Mario Gellel from UM and curator Gabriel Zammit argue that true access can open pathways for everyone, from young people all the way to adulthood.
Continue readingCan Economics Protect the Environment?
How much is Comino worth? €2,000,000? €20,000,000? Surely it is priceless? Yet, when it comes to economics and policy, priceless often means worthless. THINK examines how putting a price on the environment could actually protect it.
Continue readingWhat Monkeys Taught Us About Love and Loneliness
Science has quite a few skeletons tucked away in its closet; small, rhesus monkey-shaped ones. The results of these morbid experiments have moulded how we understand loneliness and love. What happened exactly?
Continue readingGiving Plastic Waste a Second Life Through 3D Printing
Europe’s packaging industry drives 40% of plastic demand, yet Malta’s recycling rates remain alarmingly low. While 3D printing with recycled plastic offers a sustainable, low-carbon solution, repeated recycling degrades the material’s internal structure. Dr Zunaida Binti Zakaria explores this challenge through infrared thermal imaging to unlock the secrets of plastic crystallisation and bridge the gap between waste and reliable production.
Continue readingFrom Venice to Malta: MALETH Finds Its Home
Celebrating Maltese artists and their work, the Malta Arts Council’s RETOLD initiative brings the MALETH exhibition back from the Venice Biennale to its homeland. Featuring powerful works by Vince Briffa and Trevor Borg, this series invites local audiences to engage with themes of identity, refuge, and belonging through contemporary Maltese art.
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