June 2019 Archive

Celine Semaan wants to solve fashion's sustainability problem

Design Frontiers • 4 Jun 19

The culture and climate thought leader is working with everyone from the UN to students to tackle fashion's sustainability problem. >
DJ Steloo's latest work looks to the ocean for inspiration

Design Frontiers • 5 Jun 19

Called Stitches From The Ocean, the Accra-based creative says he wanted to let the audience into the other side of his creative process. >
Sand: Overmined and underecognised

Design Frontiers • 10 Jun 19

Sand, a resource usually taken for granted, is being drastically overmined, resulting in the destruction of major ecosystems worldwide. >
From refugee camp to fashion runway

Design Frontiers • 11 Jun 19

Motivated by experiences of displacement, these designers are using fashion to tell their story of war and strife and in doing so, helping refugee communities. >
Post-colonial Congolese architecture: green, local and volcanic

Design Frontiers • 12 Jun 19

Designer Nicolas-Patience Basabose talks about the past and the future of architecture in the DRC. >
How artists and architects are helping residents to claim their right to the city

Design Frontiers • 14 Jun 19

Grigri Pixel invited a group a creatives from Africa and Spain to work together in Madrid to try and find out. >
How fashion adapted to climate change – in the Little Ice Age

Design Frontiers • 14 Jun 19

People see global warming as a modern phenomenon, but fashion has a long history of responding to climate change. >
Sunny Dolat wants to set a new standard for African fashion

Design Frontiers • 14 Jun 19

A small island off the coast of West Africa is about to host a truly representative African arts and fashion festival. >
Connextyle is providing multi-sensory healing for stroke patients

Design Frontiers • 17 Jun 19

Inspired by the ancient Japanese technique of Kintsugi, the Connextyle shirt is a rehabilitation garment that helps stroke patients regain their muscle use. >
Applications for African Crossroads 2019 are now open!

Design Frontiers • 19 Jun 19

Hivos is looking for content proposals from artists, entrepreneurs, chefs, designers, researchers, to imagine the future of African cities. >
Students explore death through a video game and our fascination with fake goods

Design Frontiers • 20 Jun 19

We spotlight the work of two graduates from the University of the Underground which was started by Dr Nelly Ben-Hayoun. >
Using empathic design to save the lives of pregnant women

Design Frontiers • 24 Jun 19

How Caroline Smeenk and Dahabo Adi Galgallo are saving the lives of mothers and their unborn children, on opposite sides of the world. >
Call for applications: Summer programme 2019

Design Frontiers • 27 Jun 19

The University of the Underground and the Hannah Arendt Center at Bard College invite you to apply for POST-NATION STATES, Summer School 19 in NYC. >

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