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Grigri Pixel is uniting creatives on two continents through urban interventions
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The projects, which brings together African and European artists, was recently selected in the culture category for the FAD design prize.
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27 Apr 18
Life Kitchen offers free cooking lessons for people living with cancer
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Life Kitchen is extending classes and has teamed up with designers to create a special range of plates, totes, and t-shirts.
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25 Apr 18
Feel people smile with Simon Dogger’s handheld device for the visually impaired
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Interaction Design
“Being able to understand other people is about the quality of dialogue which is actually about the quality of life.”
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23 Apr 18
Robotic traffic officers direct cars on Kinshasa’s roads
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Solar-powered robotic traffic cops have been “hired” to regulate the disorderly traffic in Kinshasa, the capital of the Democratic Republic of Congo.
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18 Apr 18
Iwo Borkowicz on finding housing solutions that serve both tourists and locals
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The young architect who was a Global Graduate at Design Indaba 2018 talks about his upcoming project in Tanzania.
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18 Apr 18
Copenhagenize Design Co. is making moves to see more bicycles in urban areas
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“The bicycle is the most powerful tool in our urban toolboxes to fix our cities.”
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17 Apr 18
See the novel ways these designers are innovating healthcare practices
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From beautiful colostomy bags to a USB stick that’s also an HIV testing kit, these projects affirm that the future of healthcare is in safe hands.
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16 Apr 18
Scientists are working on a pill that mimics the effects of exercise
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Scientists are a step closer to developing exercise in a pill to help the chronically lazy, elderly, and those medically unable to exercise.
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13 Apr 18
Designer Ying Gao uses fingerprint recognition to identify strangers
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These ‘smart’ garments form part of her Possible Tomorrows project.
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10 Apr 18
Alexandra Fruhstorfer uses design to find creative solutions for environmental problems
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She explores the impact of alien species through food as well as how to make clothes more sustainable through a different kind of yarn.
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9 Apr 18
The People’s Fridge is an effort to reduce food waste and combat hunger
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The city’s first community fridge is where the needy can help themselves to fresh food at zero cost.
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6 Apr 18
This designer uses bacteria to make colourful silk scarves
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Are microorganisms even more useful than we previously thought?
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5 Apr 18
Meet the world's first drone costume designer
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Before industrial designer, Léa Pereyre, started working at Verity Studios the job description of "drone costume designer" did not exist.
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4 Apr 18
Scientists design liquid barrier to protect coral reefs from UV damage
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As the world’s temperatures rise, a threat to marine life is mounting in the form of sun bleaching. These researchers may have the solution.
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4 Apr 18
Norway announces plans for a sustainable, smart city near the country’s major airport
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The ‘energy positive’ Oslo Airport City will be the first of its kind.
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29 Mar 18
The Beecosystem brings the art and science of beekeeping straight into your home
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Product Design
Its size means that it is ideal for use in the home, the classroom and other important educational spaces.
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29 Mar 18
Using textile design to track the history of nutmeg
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Marta Velasco Valesco on what inspired her #Antenna2017 project, Pulau Banda.
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27 Mar 18
Spaces designed not for cars, but for people
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Urban & Landscape Design
Is an underground, automated road tunnel the answer to the nightmare that is traffic congestion?
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27 Mar 18
Nairobi’s GoDown Art Centre gets a redesign from Sweden’s White Arkitekter
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Architecture & Interiors
Scandinavia's largest architecture firm reimagines Kenya’s leading centre for arts and culture.
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27 Mar 18
This design duo is exploring ‘stardust’ as an alternative raw matter
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As Above, So Below uses micrometeorites to communicate an important message.
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26 Mar 18
On creating unique ceramics out of sand collected from all over the world
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Lonny van Ryswyck talks about using sand from the depleted Theewaterskloof Dam to make the Design Indaba 2018 speakers gift, her process and more.
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26 Mar 18
IBM wants to use the world’s smallest computer to stop fraud
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Creative Economy
Smaller than a grain of salt, the tiny computer is part of a family of cryptographic anchors which includes edible ink dots and mobile sensors.
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23 Mar 18
Hayoung Kim’s lamps draw inspiration from handheld fans
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Product Design
As a user moves them, much in the same way one would fold and unfold a handheld fan, the light dims.
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22 Mar 18
Could these be the fast food favourites of the future?
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Food Design
Food lab Space10 reinvents 5 classic dishes using alternative, sustainable ingredients.
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22 Mar 18
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