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Caroline Smeenk on designing products to help pregnant women who can't access hospitals

Creative Work • Duration: 00:10:32 • 8 May 18

"17% of rural Canadians live over 2 hours away from their nearest hospital." >
Ukubutha: A waste-to-energy solution to mobilise residents in informal settlements

Creative Work • 8 May 18

Architecture graduate Nicole Moyo shares her idea on how informal communities can create their own water, energy and waste systems. >
Childish Gambino forcefully unpacks race and violence in America

Creative Work • 7 May 18

The multitalented artist’s new music video delivers a striking social commentary. >
This shelter is a response to forced immigration

Creative Work • 7 May 18

An eco-friendly modular shelter for displaced immigrants created by design firm DMOA. >
Will AI be our new co-dependent relationship?

Creative Work • 7 May 18

Nicole Pérez’s annoying robots ponder the future of automated intimacy. >
Students explore bamboo as sustainable alternative to conventional building

Creative Work • 4 May 18

Combining traditional weaving techniques with digital design. >
Learn how these wearables serve the hearing impaired

Creative Work • 3 May 18

"How can the deaf and hearing-impaired community experience music, without actually hearing it?" >
These Senegalese rappers found an ingenious way to report on politics

Interviews • Duration: 00:01:53 • 3 May 18

“There is a long tradition in hip hop here [Senegal], particularly hip hop being political." >
This is the world's first biodegradable home pregnancy test

Creative Work • 2 May 18

The lightweight, ultra-thin invention can be sent in an envelope and biodegrades in three months. >
An ostomy bag for health, beauty and function

Creative Work • 2 May 18

We look back at some impactful design from a UK graduate who sought to combat stigma in health care. >
Sunu Gonera on finding his voice, afrofuturism and making heroes out of ordinary people

Conference Talks • Duration: 00:36:37 • 1 May 18

In this opening talk of Design Indaba 2018 that brought the audience to its feet, the filmmaker talks about his career high and lows. >
A photo series on colourism in Haiti, the first black republic

Creative Work • 1 May 18

“They used to put me down so much because I was this dark and now, I fucking love myself.” >
This design festival is stitching together India's design community

Creative Work • 30 Apr 18

"It was one of its kind in the Indian design history. I’m not aware of any other festivals organised on such a massive scale." >
Plastic-infused concrete could cut cement industry’s carbon emissions

Creative Work • 30 Apr 18

After water, concrete is the second most widely used material on Earth. >
This device can keep opened wine fresh for 12 days

Creative Work • 29 Apr 18

“It was my urge to solve the problem through design, coupled with my love of wine, that first prompted me to create Eto,” says the designer. >
Burkinabe women are channeling the spirit of a 12th century princess

Creative Work • 29 Apr 18

Burkinabe women working in careers traditionally dominated by men, all draw inspiration and courage from one source: Princess Yennenga. >
FrailTea analyses kettle grip data to monitor the health of the elderly

Creative Work • 28 Apr 18

Callum Smith’s project FrailTea uses grip data from a kettle to monitor the health of elderly people and the state of their of frailty. >
This warning system could detect a drought earlier than ever before

Creative Work • 28 Apr 18

Here's how MIT researchers are using the leaf surface to detect drought conditions. >
Aboubakar Fofana on the hypocrisy of the fashion industry

Creative Work • 27 Apr 18

The textile designer, artist and natural dyer calls out the trend forecasters and designers to take more responsibility. >
How these Barcelona creatives are helping brands to connect more with people

Point of View • 27 Apr 18

"We help them increase profit, because they genuinely connect to their users and customers with our services that address empathy.” >
The Freedom Day reading list

Creative Work • 27 Apr 18

These projects highlight the complicated matter of South Africa's "freedom" through the eyes of creatives. >
Grigri Pixel is uniting creatives on two continents through urban interventions

Creative Work • 27 Apr 18

The projects, which brings together African and European artists, was recently selected in the culture category for the FAD design prize. >
George Gibbens is using design to tackle South Africa's social problems

Creative Work • 26 Apr 18

The industrial designer has designed a VR device to help the visually impaired, a portable machine to fight shack fires and more. >
$Taiwanese designers and students from Tunghai University, Yu-Chi Wang and Yu Man's bone fracture fixation board - BoneAid$

Taiwanese students design foldable bone-fracture boards for disaster relief

Creative Work • 26 Apr 18

Unlike traditional bone rehabilitation boards, BoneAid can be applied to multiple body parts with different folding methods. >

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