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How can we adjust our world to accommodate an ever-expanding global population?

Design Frontiers > Architecture & Interiors / Product Design / Urban & Landscape Design

These interventions could help relieve the enormous pressures felt by cities in a crowded world. >

11 Jul 18
How drones are helping in the fight against malaria

Design Frontiers > African Design

“Where do mosquitoes go in the dry season?” >

10 Jul 18
World’s largest 3D printed structure unveiled at Venice Biennale

Design Frontiers > Architecture & Interiors

The Cloud Pergola was envisioned as a paradigm for what architecture should stand for in the 21st century. It will be on show until 25 November. >

6 Jul 18
Zambian fashion entrepreneur on prints, nostalgia and the importance of finding synergy

Design Frontiers > African Design / Craft / Creative Economy / Fashion & Jewellery Design

Lucy Mulima started Aya Goods after years spent working in fashion, PR and media. >

5 Jul 18
The Connected Supper Club on dinner tables as spaces for positive change

Design Frontiers > Creative Economy / Graphic Design & Illustration

“London is a big city and I don’t find it surprising that people are attracted to small events centred around dinner tables." >

4 Jul 18
Developed by a Cape Town lecturer, this self-sustaining toilet turns waste into material of value

Design Frontiers > Design Activism / Product Design

The innovative Sanihive took home two major prizes at the recently held UNLEASH event. >

4 Jul 18
These images are a vivid and electrifying depiction of isolation

Design Frontiers > Art & Photography

Step into Andrea Koporova’s haunting Ghost Town. >

3 Jul 18
The psychological effects of sound with Nicolás Kisic Aguirre

Design Frontiers > Music & Sound Design

The Peruvian designer’s open-source projects are a combination of sound, architecture, and the mind. >

27 Jun 18
SenSprout is helping farmers better understand their crops while saving water

Design Frontiers > Industrial Design / Product Design

SenSprout’s aim is to grant farmers a better understanding of how their crops consume water without using expensive technology. >

26 Jun 18
Iwo Borkowicz on creating a new model for social housing in Cuba

Design Frontiers > Architecture & Interiors

The Polish architect presents a workable solution for both residents and tourists. >

25 Jun 18
We speak to an emoji activist on why diverse emojis matter

Design Frontiers > Design Activism / Graphic Design & Illustration

Jennifer 8 Lee says the Emojination wants to make the approval of emoji a more inclusive and representative process. >

22 Jun 18
Mexican students design a carpet for growing crops in refugee camps

Design Frontiers > Design Activism / Design Thinking

Rise, which was designed by three Mexican industrial design students, addresses one of the world's most pressing issues. >

20 Jun 18
5 African Internet start-ups redefining agriculture

Design Frontiers > Creative Economy / Design Thinking

It's Sustainable Gastronomy Day, a day that reaffirms that all cultures and civilisations are contributors and crucial enablers of sustainable development. >

18 Jun 18
Heartworks: Storytelling through crafts and embroidery

Design Frontiers > African Design / Craft

Helle Vibeke Jensen and Tina Ratzer’s Heartworks workshop inspires out-of-the-box thinking. >

15 Jun 18
Aso Oke fabric travels from head to toe

Design Frontiers > African Design / Fashion & Jewellery Design / Product Design

A Nigerian designer is translating his passion for traditional Nigerian fabric into an unusual design application. >

12 Jun 18
To teach graphic design is to learn to adapt with the field says Lucille Tenazas

Design Frontiers > Graphic Design & Illustration

“For us, as educators, we are constantly aware that our profession is sort of a moving target.” >

11 Jun 18
Leroy Mwasaru on renewable energy and creating solutions for African people

Design Frontiers > Design Activism / Industrial Design

“If I don’t, then who will?” asks the social entrepreneur. >

6 Jun 18
Making the music video great again

Design Frontiers > Film & Animation / Music & Sound Design

As musicians continue to push the boundaries visually, we examine the evolution of their relationship with film. >

5 Jun 18
The Unusual Football Field challenges the boundaries of existing areas

Design Frontiers > Urban & Landscape Design

As the world gears up for the 2018 Fifa World Cup, we take a look at this curious soccer pitch designed for space-starved urban areas. >

31 May 18
LifeArk off-grid housing is focused on sustainable community transformation

Design Frontiers > Architecture & Interiors / Design Activism

The affordable, emergency housing system is aimed at disaster prone areas and displaced peoples. >

29 May 18
This British Nigerian artist's films celebrate the full spectrum of blackness

Design Frontiers > Art & Photography / Film & Animation

Seye Isikalu’s work thoughtfully captures black bodies on screen. >

24 May 18
Future forms of concrete, plastic could be both sustainable and eco-friendly

Design Frontiers > Design Thinking / Industrial Design

“The polymers can be chemically recycled and reused, in principle, infinitely.” >

16 May 18
A Digital Drum is bringing computer skills to the youth in rural Uganda

Design Frontiers > African Design / Design Activism / Interaction Design / Product Design

Design without Borders has developed a way to bridge the information gap between urban and rural youth of Uganda. >

15 May 18
Will AI be our new co-dependent relationship?

Design Frontiers > Product Design

Nicole Pérez’s annoying robots ponder the future of automated intimacy. >

7 May 18

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