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$Thomas Chapman on reconnecting a fractured city$

Thomas Chapman on reconnecting a fractured city

Conference Talks • Duration: 00:25:28 • 17 May 16

South African architect Thomas Chapman is fixing the past using layers of new design. >
Claudia Liebenberg explores masculine themes through delicate watercolour illustration

Creative Work • 17 May 16

Illustrator Claudia Liebenberg uses her passion for art to mentor some of South Africa’s disadvantaged kids. >
Edible insects: Won’t you pass the bugs?

Creative Work • 17 May 16

NB Studio reimagines major food brands and chains with insects as their main ingredients. >
Open Eyes: The social ad campaign with a vision

Creative Work • 16 May 16

Following the moving advertising campaign #OpenEyes, we talk to FoxP2 at about why a brand needs to make people feel something in order to be relevant. >
Wear Your Label wants a stigma-free society

Creative Work • 16 May 16

Wear Your Label gets people talking about mental health through fashion and jewellery design. >
Pop-up sweatshop appears in Amsterdam

Creative Work • 16 May 16

Customers face the harsh reality of where their clothes come from in this pop-up sweatshop. >
A farming and recreational space designed to bring a community together

Creative Work • 16 May 16

Bottle Seedling House is a multipurpose shelter that aims to improve the quality of life for a farming community affected by HIV/AIDS. >
Eliminate wrinkles by applying a ‘second skin’

Creative Work • 16 May 16

A new, “second skin” solution to wrinkles could also lead to more medical advancements. >
When life hands you elephant dung, make paper

Creative Work • 13 May 16

Kenyan entrepreneurs are protecting their environment by turning elephant dung into paper. >
Pop culture and people inspire Monde Mabaso’s illustrations

Interviews • 13 May 16

Design Indaba 2016 Emerging Creative, Monde Mabaso is a Johannesburg-based illustrator who finds inspiration through this thriving city. >
Oded Ezer designs the Life/Death t-shirt

Creative Work • 13 May 16

Tel Aviv-based graphic design artist Oded Exer designed a t-shirt to help refugees. >
Portable surgical sterilisation suitcase

Creative Work • 13 May 16

Eniware is a new sterilisation system that aims to have a positive impact on health care in developing countries. >
Alfredo Brillembourg: Architecture as a response to social issues

Interviews • Duration: 00:03:27 • 13 May 16

Alfredo Brillembourg’s work addresses the housing crisis and poverty through architecture. >
The Honey: Representations of blackness as power

Creative Work • 13 May 16

Rendani Nemakhavhani's dynamic photo series "The Honey" turns away from blackness as struggle. >
Jeanne Gang: The architecture of policing in America

Interviews • Duration: 00:05:20 • 12 May 16

Founder of Studio Gang, Jeanne Gang talks about how architecture can help address police brutality in America. >
Budapest-based brand NewFoldr champions cardboard electronics

Creative Work • 12 May 16

NewFoldr aims to create a recyclable electronics movement to challenge the global e-waste issue >
"Inside Ya Body" looks inside the body for inspiration

Creative Work • 12 May 16

Jack Sachs' solo installation takes a quirky, animated look at the inside of the human body. >
Artist’s mock machine guns are sculpted from old typewriters

Creative Work • 12 May 16

Denver-based Ravi Zupa brings gun violence to the fore in “Mightier Than”. >
Snail shell shelter brings user closer to nature

Creative Work • 12 May 16

Helix is a micro-architecture structure that can shelter one nomadic individual. >
Tony Gum: Young, carefree, made in Africa

Interviews • Duration: 00:04:36 • 11 May 16

Labelled the coolest girl in Cape Town, “Artist in learning” Tony Gum tells us about her creative philosophy and why she is often her own muse. >
Three innovative solutions to water shortage in South Africa

Creative Work • 11 May 16

These three ideas were submitted to Hack4Water, an initiative aimed to help solve some of SAs water challenges. >
Treating mental illness with virtual reality

Creative Work • 11 May 16

An Oxford University study tested virtual simulation on sufferers of severe paranoia, with positive results. >
Swawou School for Girls finally opens its doors to students in Sierra Leone

Creative Work • 11 May 16

Orkidstudio unveils its free-education school in eastern Sierra Leone after the Ebola outbreak put the project on hold. >
The FoodShare Truck: Fresh produce at affordable prices

Creative Work • 11 May 16

The travelling food market offers fresh produce at cheaper prices to locals that otherwise can’t access or afford it. >

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