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Project Nourished: A virtual reality experience that tricks your taste buds

Creative Work • Duration: 00:00:09 • 12 Jul 16

Experience designer Jinsoo An’s Project Nourished creates virtual worlds where any food dream is possible. >
Trackable lifejacket uses app technology for man-overboard rescue

Creative Work • 12 Jul 16

Anti X1 is a clever redesign of the time old lifejacket, created to improve safety at sea >
The world’s largest air purifier is touring the smoggy cities of China

Creative Work • 11 Jul 16

Dutch designer Daan Roosegaarde’s Smog Free Tower (which works like a vacuum cleaner for dirty air) is travelling to China. >
Buildings made of bones

Creative Work • 11 Jul 16

Cambridge researchers explore bone and eggshell as greener building materials of the future. >
Dune covered carpark doubles as flood defence

Creative Work • 11 Jul 16

Named the Best Dutch Building of the Year in 2016, the Katwijk underground parking garage protects against future floods. >
Cow's milk plastic provides a natural, eco-friendly alternative

Creative Work • 11 Jul 16

Using an extract from skimmed milk, Tessa Silva-Dawson created a durable alternative to harmful plastics. >
Interaction is more important than expensive tech, says experience designer Marcus Lyall

Creative Work • 11 Jul 16

Marcus Lyall is behind some of the most spectacular shows of our time. >
Cozmo, the unpredictable robotic companion

Creative Work • 8 Jul 16

Tech innovation company Anki have designed a tiny robotic companion like no other. >
Belgian artist creates art out of chickens

Creative Work • 8 Jul 16

The Cosmopolitan Chicken project by Koen Vanmechelen uses the living materials collected during chicken cross-breeding to create art. >
Floris Kaayk: The Modular Body merges fact and fiction

Creative Work • 8 Jul 16

Filmmaker Floris Kaayk toys with the public’s willingness to believe in the extraordinary. >
Design graduate shares her artful take on wood joinery using plastic bottles

Creative Work • 8 Jul 16

Royal College of Art student Micaella Pedros unveils a resourceful technique of making furniture >
Sohofama: Farm to table in Hong Kong

Creative Work • 7 Jul 16

At Sohofama restaurant urban farming meets Chinese comfort cuisine with a menu inspired by Chinese doctors and farmers. >
SunFire: A 3-part solution for solar cooking

Creative Work • 7 Jul 16

SA based company’s parabolic solar kits offer a sustainable cooking solution in rural or hard to reach areas of Africa. >
Home-grown sanitary pads help treat infections

Creative Work • 7 Jul 16

Growing healthy bacteria in agar jelly, the pads are placed in front of the vagina to balance pH-levels. >
Addressing packaging waste one pizza box at a time

Creative Work • 7 Jul 16

GreenBox is a reconfigurable pizza box designed for multiple use >
Portraiture encourages pride in a marginalised Bangladeshi community

Creative Work • 7 Jul 16

Photographer Samsul Alam Helal’s portraits depict Bangladesh’s oppressed Dalit community. >
Photographer chronicles the people of Cape Town’s bustling public transport system

Creative Work • 6 Jul 16

Photographer Mads Norgaard spent seven years photographing the people that make up the fringes of Cape Town. >
Amahlé’s Ndebele inspired jewellery for a European market

Creative Work • 6 Jul 16

The Africa-inspired jewellery is designed to be sophisticated, yet durable enough for everyday use. >
Plastic-bag sculptures critique the treatment of the homeless

Creative Work • 6 Jul 16

Made in the silhouette of a person crouched on the street, the installation captures London’s response to homeless people. >
Producer Ibaaku on the avant-garde in Senegal

Creative Work • 6 Jul 16

Alien Cartoon marked the birth of a new wave of music in Senegal. Its creator Ibaaku tells us about what inspired the album. >
The New Raw: Plastic waste as the new raw material

Creative Work • 6 Jul 16

A team of creatives based in Greece have launched a new initiative to combat the worst pollutant: plastic waste. >
How is virtual reality changing the architecture industry?

Point of View • 5 Jul 16

We talk to the VR specialist at South African architecture and design practice SAOTA about how virtual reality and technology is changing design. >
Public art melts away in political protest

Creative Work • 5 Jul 16

Created by American design duo LigoranoReese, these ice sculptures show the disintegration of the American Dream. >
New smart material reacts to light, heals itself and remembers its shape

Creative Work • 5 Jul 16

Researchers at WSU have for the first time developed a smart material with more than one function. >

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