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Ghanaian photographer Lawrence Agyei on the power of photography
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“To me, a great photograph is like poetry. It captures and expresses a situation or emotion that transcends everyday life.”
14 Jun 19
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How artists and architects are helping residents to claim their right to the city
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Architecture & Interiors
Grigri Pixel invited a group a creatives from Africa and Spain to work together in Madrid to try and find out.
14 Jun 19
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Graphic designer Rofhiwa Mudau is using famous faces to inspire the youth
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African Design
“This acts as inspiration to influence a positive work flow to the career or the job of your dreams.”
14 Jun 19
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Post-colonial Congolese architecture: green, local and volcanic
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African Design
Designer Nicolas-Patience Basabose talks about the past and the future of architecture in the DRC.
12 Jun 19
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Babusi Nyoni is making AI more accessible and relevant
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African Design
The Zimbabwean developer made a gqom and vosho app and also worked with UNHCR to predict the movements of displaced people.
12 Jun 19
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Art for the soul and your lungs
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Spanish art collective Boa Mistura have created a 35m-tall mural that purifies the air.
12 Jun 19
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An alternative to disposable plastic made with potatoes
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Product Design
“This material is made from something that comes from the earth, and later on it can end up back in the soil, while posing no risk to nature.”
12 Jun 19
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The world’s first bio-brick made from human urine
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Design Activism
Its developer wants us to rethink the way we are utilising the Earth's precious resources.
11 Jun 19
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Avoid projecting: Kot Bonkers is neither a political nor a feminist artist
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Design Activism
Kot Bonkers is a brazen illustrator who fiercely defends her right to draw for the sake of it and identify with no political groups, despite audience opinion.
11 Jun 19
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This town in Mali is built almost completely out of mud
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Architecture & Interiors
The Great Mosque of Djenne survives through the dedication of local builders who help to re-plaster it each year.
11 Jun 19
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