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  • Hanif Kara
    Hanif Kara
    Hanif Kara is a structural engineer, Design Director of AKT II as well as Professor in Practice at Harvard GSD. >
    8 Nov 19
  • Resurrecting the Sublime
    Scientists and artists are reviving lost scents
    Design Frontiers > Art & Photography / Creative Economy / Design Activism / Design Thinking / Interaction Design / Music & Sound Design
    In a collaborative effort between artists and scientists, smell molecules from extinct flowers were extracted and their aromas recreated. >
    19 Jul 19
  • The Human Utility: How a Twitter discussion started a movement
    Design News > Information Design / Interaction Design
    What started out as a Twitter discussion soon became a way to address the water affordability and access issue in the United States. >
    26 Sep 18
  • Photo Credit: Ridhi Tariyal and Stephen Gire
    Smart tampons could be the future of home diagnostics
    Design News > Design Activism / Product Design
    Researchers are creating a tampon testing system that helps women monitor their own health and fertility. >
    7 Apr 16
  • 4D printed flowers
    Human tissue, smart textiles could follow these 4D-printed flowers
    Design Frontiers > Design Thinking / Product Design
    Researchers take 3D printing to the next level with printed objects that mimic the way plants move in nature. >
    2 Feb 16
  • Students at the Harvard Graduate School of Design are putting on a conference to recognise the contribution of African Americans to the design field
    Paying attention to the Black in Design
    Inside View > Architecture & Interiors / Design Thinking
    Students at the Harvard Graduate School of Design are putting on a conference to recognise the contribution of African Americans to the design field. >
    7 Oct 15
  • The bull is not dead
    Q&A > Food Design
    Although the elBulli restaurant has closed, Ferran Adrià is only just getting started. He talks to us about the future, broadening his audience and creativity. >
    16 Nov 11
  • Ben Fry
    Ben Fry
    Ben Fry takes complex data and visualises it in an aesthetically pleasing and easily understandable way. >
    20 Dec 10
  • Alejandro Aravena: Elemental housing solution in Santa Catarina, Mexico. Photo: Ramiro Ramirez.
    The good half house
    Profiling > Architecture & Interiors
    Elemental in Chile is doing more than half-heartedly answering the question of social housing. Alejandro Aravena talks to Nadine Botha. >
    1 Nov 10
  • sOccket. Photo: Jessica Lin.
    Kick off to power
    Design News > Design Thinking
    A soccer ball that harnesses kinetic energy and works as a mini generator could changes many lives in developing countries. >
    23 Jun 10
  •  Ferran Adrià
    Ferran Adrià to teach at Harvard
    Design News > Food Design
    Culinary genius and past Design Indaba speaker, Ferran Adrià will soon swop his apron for a lab coat. >
    12 Apr 10
  • Alejandro Aravena.
    The essential Alejandro Aravena at DI2010
    Festival News > Architecture & Interiors
    You’ll be forgiven for associating Alejandro Aravena’s architectural designs with the primitive. >
    15 Dec 09
  • David Adjaye
    Magic man
    Profiling > Architecture & Interiors
    Architect David Adjaye is a poster-boy for a new generation of designer/architects who pluck at the nexus of media and celebrity. >
    1 Nov 04
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