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IKEA's next step for sustainability
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9 Mar 16
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The eco-responsible furniture company is transitioning to biobased packaging made out of mushrooms.
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New supermarket in Denmark only stocks food past its sell by date
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9 Mar 16
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WeFood is reducing food waste in Denmark by selling the food that mainstream supermarkets throw out.
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Enter your design to the Green Product Award
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9 Mar 16
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The Green Product Award have extended their deadline exclusively for Design Indaba readers. Submissions are open until Sunday 13 March.
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Embroidery and needlepoint give prisoners a new outlook
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9 Mar 16
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The Fine Cell Work initiative has contributed to the rehabilitation of the UK’s prisoners for over a decade.
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This is what it's like to read with dyslexia
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9 Mar 16
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Victor Widell’s interactive blog post lets the viewer experience what it’s like to be dyslexic.
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Nigerian artist uses posters to tackle issues of climate change
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8 Mar 16
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Nigerian artist Fred Martins uses art to trigger an emotional response in the viewer and to convey a serious message about climate change.
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Accra-based Swedish fashion brand creates street couture in collaboration with Ghanaian tailors
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8 Mar 16
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HI ON LIFE is a fashion brand driven by sustainable design, Ghanaian culture and a Scandinavian appreciation of form.
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Leaving design up to chance
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8 Mar 16
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Origami-inspired game randomises the textile design process, encouraging the creation of new knowledge.
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Hello Tractor brings African farmers equipment on demand
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7 Mar 16
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Nigerian technology startup Hello Tractor is an on-demand farming machinery service for farmers in rural Africa.
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A massive eco-village with a utopian take on sustainable living
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7 Mar 16
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Agroecologist Amlankusum’s conceptual designs combines natural elements with controlled construction to create a 36-storey paradise.
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Global artists recreate monsters thought up by children
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7 Mar 16
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The Monster Project facilitates art with children by reimagining their monsters.
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The creative chef, Jasper Udink ten Cate releases his first cookbook
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4 Mar 16
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The Creative Chef cookbook shows home cooks how to turn everyday meals into mind-blowing dining experiences.
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Urban Farm Pod: A plant growing sphere in urban spaces
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4 Mar 16
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Terreform ONE’s Plug-In-Ecology project brings vertical farming to urban spaces.
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Shape-shifting textile cloud can change sound quality in a room
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4 Mar 16
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BLOOM is a knitted origami surface that can alter the ambient acoustics of public spaces.
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Teledisko: The 60s nightlife experience in a phone booth
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3 Mar 16
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Teledisko is a phone booth upcycled into the world’s smallest nightclub.
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Candyfloss characters in comical GIFs with a feminist touch
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3 Mar 16
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Inspired by Instagram artists, Swedish art director Sofia Hydman creates GIFs depicting chubby, confident girls.
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Award-winning architecture student Alfie Hope imagines a city floating on bamboo
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3 Mar 16
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Alfie Hope champions water-based urbanism with his proposal to grow floating land with bamboo.
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Six things you might not know about Airbnb and its co-founder Joe Gebbia
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3 Mar 16
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Airbnb's co-founder Joe Gebbia will be speaking at Design Indaba 2017. Here are some things you might not know about this peer-to-peer home-rental start up.
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Zami Life: A stool for smart sitting in an age of inactivity
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3 Mar 16
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The Zami smart stool promotes healthy living through innovative furniture design.
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Concept artist merges Maasai warriors with sci-fi tech
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2 Mar 16
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Rodrigo Galdino imagines what it would look like if traditional Maasai warriors integrated alien tech into their culture.
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NASA invites public to send art to space
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2 Mar 16
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NASA’s upcoming mission to a near-Earth asteroid will take with it artworks submitted by explorers from around the world.
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Nursery Fields Forever imagines a preschool where kids learn how to farm
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2 Mar 16
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Rome-based design team wins an architecture award for its new age urban farming school for children.
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Agriculture meets architecture in France's urban farm tower
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1 Mar 16
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Built like a staircase, ABF-lab's urban farming structure aims to raise awareness and encourage better living and social responsibility.
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3D printed braille maps for navigating interiors
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1 Mar 16
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Rutgers University researchers hope their new braille maps will become a new standard feature in all public spaces.
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Pool poetics
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Kanya Viljoen’s Eurydice makes use of femme narratives in a waterless pool
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Japan’s Kamakura Village pop-up eatery serves traditional fare in icy igloos for one month a year
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From dawn to dust
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Katie Paterson’s Requiem will change the way you think about dust
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