2018 Archive

Designer Ying Gao uses fingerprint recognition to identify strangers

Design Frontiers • 10 Apr 18

These ‘smart’ garments form part of her Possible Tomorrows project. >
Alexandra Fruhstorfer uses design to find creative solutions for environmental problems

Design Frontiers • 9 Apr 18

She explores the impact of alien species through food as well as how to make clothes more sustainable through a different kind of yarn. >
The People’s Fridge is an effort to reduce food waste and combat hunger

Design Frontiers • 6 Apr 18

The city’s first community fridge is where the needy can help themselves to fresh food at zero cost. >
This designer uses bacteria to make colourful silk scarves

Design Frontiers • 5 Apr 18

Are microorganisms even more useful than we previously thought? >
Scientists design liquid barrier to protect coral reefs from UV damage

Design Frontiers • 4 Apr 18

As the world’s temperatures rise, a threat to marine life is mounting in the form of sun bleaching. These researchers may have the solution. >
Norway announces plans for a sustainable, smart city near the country’s major airport

Design Frontiers • 29 Mar 18

The ‘energy positive’ Oslo Airport City will be the first of its kind. >
The Beecosystem brings the art and science of beekeeping straight into your home

Design Frontiers • 29 Mar 18

Its size means that it is ideal for use in the home, the classroom and other important educational spaces. >
Spaces designed not for cars, but for people

Design Frontiers • 27 Mar 18

Is an underground, automated road tunnel the answer to the nightmare that is traffic congestion? >
Nairobi’s GoDown Art Centre gets a redesign from Sweden’s White Arkitekter

Design Frontiers • 27 Mar 18

Scandinavia's largest architecture firm reimagines Kenya’s leading centre for arts and culture. >
This design duo is exploring ‘stardust’ as an alternative raw matter

Design Frontiers • 26 Mar 18

As Above, So Below uses micrometeorites to communicate an important message. >
IBM wants to use the world’s smallest computer to stop fraud

Design Frontiers • 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. >
Hayoung Kim’s lamps draw inspiration from handheld fans

Design Frontiers • 22 Mar 18

As a user moves them, much in the same way one would fold and unfold a handheld fan, the light dims. >
Could these be the fast food favourites of the future?

Design Frontiers • 22 Mar 18

Food lab Space10 reinvents 5 classic dishes using alternative, sustainable ingredients. >
These contact lenses deliver medicine straight to your eye

Design Frontiers • 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. >
Swedish clinic designed with the country's refugee population in mind

Design Frontiers • 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. >
What if you could 3D print your own home in a matter of hours?

Design Frontiers • 19 Mar 18

The ICON project’s Vulcan printer creates concrete homes in record time. >
Young scientist develops possible solution for shack fires

Design Frontiers • 16 Mar 18

Gabriella Mogale’s innovation won gold at the 2017 Eskom Expo for Young Scientists. >
Experimental food design studio introduces 3D-printed sushi

Design Frontiers • 16 Mar 18

Open Meals imagines a future of generating, combining and printing food from anywhere in the world. >
Memphis Meats is at the forefront of kill-free meat

Design Frontiers • 14 Mar 18

As far as innovation in the agriculture sector goes, the future of food is equal parts bizarre and exciting. >
David Adjaye designs Ghana’s new National Cathedral

Design Frontiers • 14 Mar 18

To be built in the city of Accra, the project marks Adjaye Associates’ first major project in the capital. >
How can architecture aid those who experience exclusion?

Design Frontiers • 13 Mar 18

This new initiative seeks to explore urban environments from the perspective of a teenage girl. >
Oxygene is the plant-based green tyre of the future

Design Frontiers • 12 Mar 18

Unveiled at the Geneva Motor Show, this innovation could become the norm for automobile design in years to come. >
Sweden’s Self-Built City offers solutions to the country’s housing shortage

Design Frontiers • 9 Mar 18

The collaborative project seeks to turn refugees into self-sufficient builders. >
Aiming for Democratic Architecture exhibition taps into the role of architecture in democracy

Design Frontiers • 8 Mar 18

At the exhibition, held in Stockholm recently, Design Indaba chatted to MYCKET, a women-led design firm. >

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