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A new self-sufficient, post-COVID city

Design News • 5 Nov 20 • Sponsored Content

Set to live in China’s Xiong’ and in a post coronavirus pandemic - the new city will be a place where people are able to produce a new living and create a new t >
With great design comes great responsibility: antenna 2020 looks to the future

Design News • 2 Nov 20 • Sponsored Content

10 design graduates from the world’s leading design schools took to the antenna 2020 virtual stage as part of Dutch Design Week. >
Flowing Garments reimagines textile waste as a building material in Bangladesh

Design News • 26 Oct 20 • Sponsored Content

Landscape designer Fengjiao Ge looks into how to recycle textiles to save the tonnes of waste that goes from our wardrobes to the landfill in her thesis proje >
Canadian industrial designer creates tetrapods that mimic mangroves and protect coastlines from erosion

Design News • 26 Oct 20 • Sponsored Content

Industrial designer Xavier Ouellet has developed a system of floating tetrapods that protects coastline from erosion. >
Mimica Touch is a tactile label that combats food waste by providing accurate feedback on when food is spoiling

Design News • 23 Oct 20 • Sponsored Content

London-based industrial designer Solveiga Pakštaitė is working hard to combat the massive issue of food waste. >
How surgical robots are assisting with surgery

Design News • 22 Oct 20 • Sponsored Content

A collaboration between Wyss Associate Faculty member Robert Woodand and Robotics engineer Hiroyuki Suzuki. >
ASMR: The new wave of sound therapy

Design News • 22 Oct 20 • Sponsored Content

Here we discover the sensation of ASMR. >
Healing Health Cafe's

Design News • 22 Oct 20 • Sponsored Content

Pop-in and rest pit-stops are urban sanctuaries for city slickers. >
The new digital health clinic for women

Design News • 22 Oct 20 • Sponsored Content

"We’ll deliver your medication quickly and discreetly to your front door. You’ll open your treatment in the comfort of your own home." >
The virtual community for mental health and care in a game form

Design News • 22 Oct 20 • Sponsored Content

Created by designer-researcher Bianca Carague, Bump Galaxy is a virtual community for mental health and care in a game world prototyped on Minecraft. >
The S.A.D. SUN ALLERGY DIARIES

Design News • 22 Oct 20 • Sponsored Content

SiiGii designs concept-driven body extensions >
How the CRISPR gene-editing tool became a scientific breakthrough

Design News • 22 Oct 20 • Sponsored Content

Illustrating how to edit genes - Emmanuelle Charpentier and Jennifer Doudna are this year’s Nobel Laureates for Chemistry >
South African architecture student looks at how to reimagine dangerous alleyways in a Johannesburg suburb as pedestrian streets

Design News • 22 Oct 20 • Sponsored Content

Joshil Naran's Honours project is named “in-between, back-to-back & front-to-front”. >
Universal typeface Braille Neue builds new connections between the sighted and visually impaired

Design News • 20 Oct 20 • Sponsored Content

Designer Kosuke Takahashi has created a font that enables visually impaired and sighted people to read from the same page and connect with each other. >
How to treat the HIV epidemic: RCA graduate Ricky Stoch addresses treatment adherence

Design News • 18 Oct 20 • Sponsored Content

Royal College of Art graduate Ricky Stoch created a system called FebriSol that aims to solve the problem of treatment adherence. >
#antenna2020 Interview: Ricky stoch

Design News • 17 Oct 20 • Sponsored Content

"I don't distinguish between my design ethics and personal ethics, I just try my best to act with integrity." >
antenna 2020: The young, the curious, the brave

Design News • 17 Oct 20 • Sponsored Content

Initiated by Design Indaba and Dutch Design Week, antenna takes the pulse of the new design. >
A playground built to scale for children

Design News • 15 Oct 20 • Sponsored Content

Studio Ossidiana realized Horismos in tinted concrete with different finishes, adding a tactile element to this labyrinth-like structure. >
A new perspective of storytelling for children

Design News • 15 Oct 20 • Sponsored Content

The project was nominated for a Kids Design Award 2020. >
Kid-friendly electronics kit

Design News • 15 Oct 20 • Sponsored Content

Founded by French designer Matthieu Muller, Studio Fantasio’s has created a kid-friendly electronics kit. >
The new inclusive LEGO experience

Design News • 15 Oct 20 • Sponsored Content

Through teamwork they created audio and braille building instructions which now gives those with disabilities the ability to enjoy the LEGO creative play experi >
ANOHA: The story of Noah from the Torah with interactive exhibits

Design News • 15 Oct 20 • Sponsored Content

Interactive exhibits and a series of animals formed from recycled materials, constitute the inhabitants of this modern ark. >
Foster + Partners launched #architecturefromhome in lockdown to help educate kids.

Design News • 14 Oct 20 • Sponsored Content

#architecturefromhome challenges kids to think about their built environment. >
The AI-powered Clova bedside lamp

Design News • 14 Oct 20 • Sponsored Content

The Clova Lamp reads any book placed beneath it and adjusts its illumination to the surroundings. >

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Arbour days

Design News • 21 Jun 22

Stefano Boeri x Timberland have created a multisensory installation to bring the scents and sensations of being in a forest into an urban waterway >
Superstructures

Q&A • 21 Jun 22

Mona-Lisa Mthethwa believes architecture can be used as a tool to bring about sustainable change >
Home and away

Design Frontiers • 21 Jun 22

The new Africa Centre in Southwark is poised to unveil a permanent collection of contemporary African art, following a much-anticipated refurbishment >
Dream, explore, discover

Design News • 21 Jun 22

Take a seat on a Bofred masterpiece and be transported to a world where all you need do is actively observe >

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