Russians have for decades fashioned functional objects from such cast-off items as forks, plastic bottles and onion bags. Collector Vladimir Arkhipov sheds light on the artful labours collected in his archive of “post-material folklore”.

“He who says something is impossible is not speaking Korean” —Kim Jong Il. Throughout the twentieth century, certain filmmakers explored the relationship between visuality and language. One such person was Kim Jong Il, who employed his theories on Juche-oriented literature and cinema.

A commonplace Hindi term, jugaad describes everyday acts of innovation. As artist Sanjeev Shankar tells it: “A guy with 10 rupees has a dream to own a tractor or a television. He’ll start thinking in a radically inventive manner to get it, and do so with whatever means or resources he has at hand.”

Andrew Gregg interviews Edmundo Edwards, one of the pre-eminent archeological experts of Polynesia, from his work studying the moai of Easter Island, to discovering lost cities in the Marquesas and Tahiti and unearthing the sacred tikis of Raivavae in the Austral Island chain. He is also one of the very best raconteurs alive and a first-hand witness to the weird modern history of Rapa Nui.