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This stylish and smart clothing range stretches as your children grow
Design Frontiers
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7 Mar 18
Redesigning children's garments to lower costs and minimise environmental impact.
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Here are some highlights from Design Indaba 2018!
Design Frontiers
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7 Mar 18
This year's Design Indaba was a multi-sensory event that brought together creatives from all over the world.
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Two Cape Town brothers on starting one of the world's biggest online learning platforms
Design Frontiers
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8 Mar 18
"Rather than tearing down the structures that exist, it is far better to use the best of the old and the best of the new."
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Aiming for Democratic Architecture exhibition taps into the role of architecture in democracy
Design Frontiers
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8 Mar 18
At the exhibition, held in Stockholm recently, Design Indaba chatted to MYCKET, a women-led design firm.
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Sweden’s Self-Built City offers solutions to the country’s housing shortage
Design Frontiers
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9 Mar 18
The collaborative project seeks to turn refugees into self-sufficient builders.
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Oxygene is the plant-based green tyre of the future
Design Frontiers
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12 Mar 18
Unveiled at the Geneva Motor Show, this innovation could become the norm for automobile design in years to come.
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How can architecture aid those who experience exclusion?
Design Frontiers
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13 Mar 18
This new initiative seeks to explore urban environments from the perspective of a teenage girl.
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David Adjaye designs Ghana’s new National Cathedral
Design Frontiers
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14 Mar 18
To be built in the city of Accra, the project marks Adjaye Associates’ first major project in the capital.
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Memphis Meats is at the forefront of kill-free meat
Design Frontiers
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14 Mar 18
As far as innovation in the agriculture sector goes, the future of food is equal parts bizarre and exciting.
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Experimental food design studio introduces 3D-printed sushi
Design Frontiers
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16 Mar 18
Open Meals imagines a future of generating, combining and printing food from anywhere in the world.
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Young scientist develops possible solution for shack fires
Design Frontiers
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16 Mar 18
Gabriella Mogale’s innovation won gold at the 2017 Eskom Expo for Young Scientists.
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What if you could 3D print your own home in a matter of hours?
Design Frontiers
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19 Mar 18
The ICON project’s Vulcan printer creates concrete homes in record time.
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Swedish clinic designed with the country's refugee population in mind
Design Frontiers
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19 Mar 18
Rejecting the traditional strict clean lines typical of medical centers, the design team explored the concept of a bright facade with an unusual 3D effect.
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These contact lenses deliver medicine straight to your eye
Design Frontiers
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20 Mar 18
The lenses can deliver drugs to the back of the eye to treat macular degeneration, diabetic retinopathy, retinal vein occlusion, and other diseases.
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Could these be the fast food favourites of the future?
Design Frontiers
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22 Mar 18
Food lab Space10 reinvents 5 classic dishes using alternative, sustainable ingredients.
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Hayoung Kim’s lamps draw inspiration from handheld fans
Design Frontiers
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22 Mar 18
As a user moves them, much in the same way one would fold and unfold a handheld fan, the light dims.
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IBM wants to use the world’s smallest computer to stop fraud
Design Frontiers
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23 Mar 18
Smaller than a grain of salt, the tiny computer is part of a family of cryptographic anchors which includes edible ink dots and mobile sensors.
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On creating unique ceramics out of sand collected from all over the world
Design Frontiers
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26 Mar 18
Lonny van Ryswyck talks about using sand from the depleted Theewaterskloof Dam to make the Design Indaba 2018 speakers gift, her process and more.
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This design duo is exploring ‘stardust’ as an alternative raw matter
Design Frontiers
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26 Mar 18
As Above, So Below uses micrometeorites to communicate an important message.
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Nairobi’s GoDown Art Centre gets a redesign from Sweden’s White Arkitekter
Design Frontiers
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27 Mar 18
Scandinavia's largest architecture firm reimagines Kenya’s leading centre for arts and culture.
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Spaces designed not for cars, but for people
Design Frontiers
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27 Mar 18
Is an underground, automated road tunnel the answer to the nightmare that is traffic congestion?
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Using textile design to track the history of nutmeg
Design Frontiers
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27 Mar 18
Marta Velasco Valesco on what inspired her #Antenna2017 project, Pulau Banda.
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The Beecosystem brings the art and science of beekeeping straight into your home
Design Frontiers
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29 Mar 18
Its size means that it is ideal for use in the home, the classroom and other important educational spaces.
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Norway announces plans for a sustainable, smart city near the country’s major airport
Design Frontiers
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29 Mar 18
The ‘energy positive’ Oslo Airport City will be the first of its kind.
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