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STEAM not STEM: Why scientists need arts training

Design Frontiers > Art & Photography / Creative Economy / Design Thinking

Associate Professor Richard Lachman explains the importance of including the arts into STEM >

3 Nov 19
Biology is the new technology with Silvio Tinello’s grown objects

Design News > Industrial Design

“Designers are beginning to realise that they can grow a better future." >

29 Jul 19
The 5 most searched designers in 2018

Design News > Design Activism / Design Thinking

Spanning across diverse ages, nationalities and disciplines, these were the most searched Design Indaba speakers in 2018 >

12 Dec 18
Design is what combines technology and biology in Markus Kayser's work

Design Frontiers > Design Thinking

The 16 robots, including the design system to control them, were developed by researchers who work at the intersection of biotechnology and design. >

7 Nov 18
RoboBees and the future of pollination

Design News > Design Activism / Design Thinking

Are scientists about to replace bees? >

14 Nov 16
Floris Kaayk: The Modular Body merges fact and fiction

Design Frontiers > Design Thinking / Film & Animation

Filmmaker Floris Kaayk toys with the public’s willingness to believe in the extraordinary. >

8 Jul 16
A future where products are grown straight out of our skin

Design Frontiers > Fashion & Jewellery Design

Designer Amy Congdon imagines a world where biotechnology has changed the way textiles are made. >

3 Jun 16
The CimaVax vaccine is Cuba's most recent gift to cancer treatment

Design Frontiers > Creative Economy / Product Design

The Centre of Molecular Immunology in Cuba is making great strides in cancer research with a new vaccine. >

4 Sep 15
Blood pudding

Design News > Food Design

Tuur van Balen's "Cook Me: Black Bile" is a recipe for controlling feelings of melancholy. >

15 Nov 11
Crossing t’s and dotting i’s at DI2011

Festival News > Graphic Design & Illustration

Creativity is not a luxury but a part of normal life, Oded Ezer believes, because we become more moral and more positive when we create. >

2 Dec 10
Cellularity

Design News > Interaction Design

Cellularity by James King explores the development of cell-like structures, or “chells” that mimic the features of biological cells. >

24 May 10
Protofarm 2050 in Singapore

Do Tank News > Architecture & Interiors / Design Thinking / Food Design / Industrial Design / Interaction Design

“Farming should be viewed as the sustainable cultivation of a renewable resource,” announces Protofarm 2050 at the World Design Congress. >

24 Nov 09
Protofarm 2050

Do Tank News > Information Design / Interaction Design / Design Thinking

Design Indaba will be presenting Protofarm 2050 at the ICSID World Design Congress in Singapore from 23 to 25 November. >

3 Nov 09
Leapfrog rising sea levels

Design News > Design Thinking / Architecture & Interiors

Lilypad by architect Vincent Callebaut is a floating ecopolis for climate refugees in 2100. >

1 Nov 09
Functional food

Design News > Design Thinking

Pharmland is a proposal by Nord Architects to redirect 20% of Denmark’s agricultural land to grow medicine instead of food. >

1 Nov 09

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