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Smart street furniture for a safer city

Design Frontiers > Industrial Design

Combatting air and noise pollution with Simply Grid. >

1 Dec 16
Vincent Callebaut’s eco-skyscraper takes shape in Taipei

Design Frontiers > Architecture & Interiors

The green building imitates the processes of natural ecosystems. >

1 Dec 16
Bridging the gaps between human & machine

Design Frontiers > Design Thinking

The division between tech & biology seems more blurred now than ever before. How will this intensifying trend evolve? >

30 Nov 16
These mirrored placards give peaceful protesters a means of protection

Design Frontiers > Design Activism

Nikolas Bentel’s reflective protest signs for the Dakota Access Pipeline protesters. >

29 Nov 16
Me, Myself and You is a board game to help Autistic adults make friends

Design Frontiers > Product Design

The multiplayer board game designed to facilitate social connections between those on the spectrum. >

28 Nov 16
Innovative capsule achieves long-term drug delivery

Design Frontiers > Design Activism / Design Thinking

This drug capsule offers an alternative to daily doses of medication >

25 Nov 16
New stick on patch uses sweat to monitor your health

Design Frontiers > Design Thinking / Product Design

The soft, flexible skin patch that can inspect your perspiration while you work out. >

25 Nov 16
The Ethical Dilemma of Self-Driving Cars

Design Frontiers > Design Thinking / Film & Animation

Researchers speculate on the murky decision-making aptitude of AI vehicles. >

25 Nov 16
Using flies to treat rare diseases

Design Frontiers > Design Thinking

Experimental designer Frank Kolkman puts the treatment of rare conditions into the hands of those afflicted. >

22 Nov 16
Pneumatic dome turns London park into a community haven

Design Frontiers > Design Thinking / Urban & Landscape Design

Madrid-based firm DOSIS creates inflatable, reconfigurable public space. >

18 Nov 16
‘The Crying Forest’: a striking reminder of the forces ravaging the Amazon

Design Frontiers > Art & Photography

Philippe Echaroux’s artistic protest against the destruction of the rainforest. >

17 Nov 16
This USB stick doubles as an HIV testing kit

Design Frontiers > Design Activism / Product Design

Scientists based in the UK have developed a USB device that can quickly and accurately determine one's HIV status. >

17 Nov 16
Turning the tables with the Internet of Things

Design Frontiers > Design Thinking

We use technology to experiment, test and customise our experiences. But what if it was the other way around? >

16 Nov 16
Athi-Patra Ruga debuts new performance piece at Performa 17 Biennale in New York

Design Frontiers > Art & Photography

Dismantling the myth of the ‘Rainbow Nation’ through performance art. >

16 Nov 16
Smart streetlights powered by pedestrian footsteps

Design Frontiers > Industrial Design / Urban & Landscape Design

Clean-tech startup EnGoPlanet harnesses kinetic energy to potentially power cities around the world. >

15 Nov 16
Photographer Loes Heerink captures the beauty of Vietnam’s street trade

Design Frontiers > Art & Photography

‘Vendors From Above’ - a collection of aerial shots of the vivid hawkers of Hanoi. >

15 Nov 16
The untapped light & utility of plants

Design Frontiers > Design Thinking

Turning plants into sources of energy and light. >

14 Nov 16
What if your teeth could heal themselves?

Design Frontiers > Product Design

These biosynthetic tooth fillings could mean the end of root canals. >

11 Nov 16
Sunflare develops the world’s first stick-on solar paneling

Design Frontiers > Industrial Design

The new ultra-thin solar wallpaper can be applied to just about anything. >

10 Nov 16
MIT scientists engineer spinach to detect explosives

Design Frontiers > Design Thinking

This research team has found a way to infuse the vegetable with super powers. >

10 Nov 16
MIT breaks new ground with “soft” aeroplane wing

Design Frontiers > Design Thinking

The lightweight structure is a modular, flexible advancement in the field of soft robotics. >

9 Nov 16
De-Formance by Jessica Smarsch

Design Frontiers > Fashion & Jewellery Design / Film & Animation

De-Formance is a unique project that investigates the connection between design and movement. >

4 Nov 16
Harvard researchers develop world's first 3D-printed heart on a chip

Design Frontiers > Design Thinking / Industrial Design

Could this development mean the beginning of the end of animal product testing? Harvard researchers have developed a tiny heart that is 3D-printed on a chip. >

3 Nov 16
Capturing South Korea’s deep-sea diving women

Design Frontiers > Art & Photography

See Hyung S. Kim’s breathtaking portraits of the sea women of Jeju. >

2 Nov 16

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