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Designer Ying Gao uses fingerprint recognition to identify strangers

Design Frontiers > Fashion & Jewellery Design / Interaction Design

These ‘smart’ garments form part of her Possible Tomorrows project. >

10 Apr 18
Alexandra Fruhstorfer uses design to find creative solutions for environmental problems

Design Frontiers > Fashion & Jewellery Design / Industrial Design

She explores the impact of alien species through food as well as how to make clothes more sustainable through a different kind of yarn. >

9 Apr 18
Jalila Essaïdi’s project turns cow dung into textiles

Design Frontiers > Creative Economy / Design Activism / Fashion & Jewellery Design

Designer and entrepreneur Jalila Essaïdi says we have an untapped natural resource in manure. >

9 Apr 18
The People’s Fridge is an effort to reduce food waste and combat hunger

Design Frontiers > Design Activism

The city’s first community fridge is where the needy can help themselves to fresh food at zero cost. >

6 Apr 18
This designer uses bacteria to make colourful silk scarves

Design Frontiers > Design Thinking / Industrial Design

Are microorganisms even more useful than we previously thought? >

5 Apr 18
Meet the world's first drone costume designer

Design Frontiers > Design Thinking / Industrial Design / Product Design

Before industrial designer, Léa Pereyre, started working at Verity Studios the job description of "drone costume designer" did not exist. >

4 Apr 18
Scientists design liquid barrier to protect coral reefs from UV damage

Design Frontiers > Design Activism / Design Thinking

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. >

4 Apr 18
Norway announces plans for a sustainable, smart city near the country’s major airport

Design Frontiers > Architecture & Interiors / Urban & Landscape Design

The ‘energy positive’ Oslo Airport City will be the first of its kind. >

29 Mar 18
The Beecosystem brings the art and science of beekeeping straight into your home

Design Frontiers > Product Design

Its size means that it is ideal for use in the home, the classroom and other important educational spaces. >

29 Mar 18
Can the architecture of a prison contribute to the rehabilitation of its inmates?

Design Frontiers > Architecture & Interiors

"Every inmate in Norwegian prisons are going back to the society. Do you want people who are angry — or people who are rehabilitated?” >

28 Mar 18
Using textile design to track the history of nutmeg

Design Frontiers > Fashion & Jewellery Design

Marta Velasco Valesco on what inspired her #Antenna2017 project, Pulau Banda. >

27 Mar 18
Spaces designed not for cars, but for people

Design Frontiers > Urban & Landscape Design

Is an underground, automated road tunnel the answer to the nightmare that is traffic congestion? >

27 Mar 18
Nairobi’s GoDown Art Centre gets a redesign from Sweden’s White Arkitekter

Design Frontiers > Architecture & Interiors

Scandinavia's largest architecture firm reimagines Kenya’s leading centre for arts and culture. >

27 Mar 18
This design duo is exploring ‘stardust’ as an alternative raw matter

Design Frontiers > Design Thinking

As Above, So Below uses micrometeorites to communicate an important message. >

26 Mar 18
On creating unique ceramics out of sand collected from all over the world

Design Frontiers > Design Thinking / Product Design

Lonny van Ryswyck talks about using sand from the depleted Theewaterskloof Dam to make the Design Indaba 2018 speakers gift, her process and more. >

26 Mar 18
IBM wants to use the world’s smallest computer to stop fraud

Design Frontiers > 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. >

23 Mar 18
Is Sweden’s Vittra School the Future of Learning?

Design Frontiers > Architecture & Interiors

Designed by Rosan Bosch, the space challenges traditional education facilities. >

23 Mar 18
Hayoung Kim’s lamps draw inspiration from handheld fans

Design Frontiers > Product Design

As a user moves them, much in the same way one would fold and unfold a handheld fan, the light dims. >

22 Mar 18
Could these be the fast food favourites of the future?

Design Frontiers > Food Design

Food lab Space10 reinvents 5 classic dishes using alternative, sustainable ingredients. >

22 Mar 18
These contact lenses deliver medicine straight to your eye

Design Frontiers > Design Thinking / Product Design

The lenses can deliver drugs to the back of the eye to treat macular degeneration, diabetic retinopathy, retinal vein occlusion, and other diseases. >

20 Mar 18
Swedish clinic designed with the country's refugee population in mind

Design Frontiers > Architecture & Interiors

Rejecting the traditional strict clean lines typical of medical centers, the design team explored the concept of a bright facade with an unusual 3D effect. >

19 Mar 18
What if you could 3D print your own home in a matter of hours?

Design Frontiers > Architecture & Interiors / Industrial Design

The ICON project’s Vulcan printer creates concrete homes in record time. >

19 Mar 18
Young scientist develops possible solution for shack fires

Design Frontiers > Product Design

Gabriella Mogale’s innovation won gold at the 2017 Eskom Expo for Young Scientists. >

16 Mar 18
Experimental food design studio introduces 3D-printed sushi

Design Frontiers > Food Design

Open Meals imagines a future of generating, combining and printing food from anywhere in the world. >

16 Mar 18

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