Denmark | Design Indaba

Student designed device to investigate the Arctic’s underwater environment

The DeepFreezeROV promises to expand our understanding of a world we can’t see. >
Turning famine into feasts: Insects as the livestock of tomorrow

Consider Nordic Food Labs - the science kitchen that makes bugs a more tasty prospect. >
Solving the problem of student housing with floating dormitories

See the unconventional, low-cost student residences recently unveiled in Copenhagen. >
Brain helmet stimulates creative thinking

Plato project explores scientific solution to problem solving. >
The Visionary Kitchen creates dinners from food waste

The Visionary Kitchen, a volunteer organisation, hosts weekly free dinners for up to 10 guests from foods that have reached their sell-by-date. >
One man's waste is another man's meal: How Denmark is feeding people with waste

Hunger affects almost 795-million people worldwide. Finding smart ways to reduce excessive levels of food waste has now become a priority not a nice-to-have. >
$Marbelous Wood "Refraction #1"$

Hypnotic flooring created by new approach to ancient marbling

Snedker Studio’s Marbelous Wood series transforms pine wood into ripple-effect artwork. >
ReGen Village: an under-construction utopia of sustainable living

Self-sustaining, off-grid village to be built in the Netherlands offers a look at the future of eco-friendly living. >
The hidden graphic design behind flags

Stories behind flags from an artist’s point of view. >
New supermarket in Denmark only stocks food past its sell by date

WeFood is reducing food waste in Denmark by selling the food that mainstream supermarkets throw out. >
New material detects explosives at airports

Scientists have created a material that lights up in the presence of explosives. >
Beercycling transforms urine into beer

Northern Europe’s largest festival turns festivalgoers’ urine into fertiliser for barley crops >
A Danish art pavilion is in transit to a Kenyan slum where it’ll now be a school

The pavilion designed by SelgasCano for a Danish art museum has been packed up and shipped to Africa’s largest slum, to assume its second life as a school. >
Copenhagen plans to adapt its architecture for flood-resistance

Copenhagen rethinks existing city infrastructure to double as water catchment areas. >
We talk to the elusive Danish artist and "social designer" known as FOS

Copenhagen-based artist FOS, a.k.a. Thomas Poulsen, is responsible for an eclectic mix of projects – from social housing to floating bars. >
FOS

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Danish artist Thomas Poulsen, who works under the alias FOS, creates unusual spaces that rely on human interaction to really come to life. >
The Infinite Happiness

"The Infinite Happiness" is a feature length documentary investigating and experiencing the lives of those who live and work in the "8 House". >
Environmentally friendly gift-wrapping concept, Dono

Copenhagen-based design studio Frensk creates a reusable wrapping paper system that keeps a record of past users. >
New fund will invest 40 million euros in designs that improve life

INDEX Awards and Dansk OTC are establishing a venture capital fund of 40 million euros to invest in life improving designs. >
This app for the visually impaired is centred on human kindness

Be My Eyes is a platform that allows the visually impaired to connect with a willing volunteer. >
Tomorrow’s Meatball explores what we’ll be serving up 20 years from now

A collaborative investigation into the future of food as told by eight weird-looking meatballs. >
IKEA furniture could charge devices using wasted heat

Space 10’s Heat Harvest turns everyday items into charging points for other devices. >
The future of urban farming is flat-packed

With this design, an instructions booklet and a set of flat-pack pieces that can be easily fitted together are all you need to start farming in the city. >
An app designed to help refugees locate missing family

Refunite is a free platform with an anonymous database of more than 405,000 users and an estimated 1 500 family reunions. >

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