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New affordable houses in Paris leech onto existing buildings

Stephane Malka Architects’ modular city home will sell at 40 per cent below the market price. >
A Michelin star for bobotie and biltong

Jan Hendrik van der Westhuizen is the first South African chef to win a Michelin star for his South African-inspired menu JAN, his restaurant in Nice, France. >
Quit smoking by locking your cigs away in this smart box

This smart box pairs with an app to form a tech solution to cigarette cravings. >
Pierre-Félix So replaces push notifications with bubbles and balloons

Pierre-Féliz So has designed Push Revolution, three devices that reinvent our relationship with push notifications through bubbles and balloons. >
Wai Architects: Architecture as a tool for addressing social issues

According to WAI Architects, architecture might not save the world but it has the power to make people’s lives miserable. >
Qivivo smart thermostats builds temperature profile for it's users

Paris-based 5.5 designstudio have designed a minimal-looking thermostat that learns about its user's behaviours and optimises home energy usage. >
These naughty illustrations betray truisms about human relationships

“Les Coquins” is a book of risqué illustrations by French artist Marion Fayolle. >
Jean-Paul Bourdier's work explores the human form and nature without digital enhancement

Jean-Paul Bourdier's photography poetically explores the human form as it experiences ties with the four elements - earth, air, water, light. >
Relax and recharge under Mathieu Lehanneur's Clover street lights

French industrial designer Mathieu Lehanneur creates an urban furniture and lighting collection for COP21’s climate conference. >
Environmentally friendly gift-wrapping concept, Dono

Copenhagen-based design studio Frensk creates a reusable wrapping paper system that keeps a record of past users. >
This thoroughly modern French school is located in protected woodland

The Bartelottes school complex designed by Paris-based Nomade architects is grounded in the surrounding natural environment. >
Miniature paper sculptures reveal nature’s disguised microorganisms

Artist Rogan Brown reveals the intricate architecture of nature with sheets of paper and a scalpel knife. >
An ecodesign rocking chair made from recycled plastic bottles.

A rocking chair made of upcycled plastic bottles and sustainable spruce is a guilt-free way to kick back. >
Good Chance theatre is a beacon of hope in Calais’ refugee camp

Creativity brings people together in this struggling refugee camp. >
Water sensitive textile shelters become cheerful in the rain

Water Culture by experimental Italian design studio Fabrica is a textile that responds to rain by producing cheerful prints to offset gloomy weather. >
Short story vending machines ignite a reading revolution in Grenoble

A French publishing company encourages digital-dependent commuters to read instead of play on their personal tech devices. >
Thermal sponge table designed to save energy

A French design studio has revamped the humble table, turning it into a device to control the temperature in a living space. >
One Heart One Tree plants a virtual forest on the Eiffel Tower

Artist Naziha Mestaoui is planning to grow a virtual forest on the Eiffel Tower that will be matched by a real one in the soil. >
Pierre de Vallombreuse photographs societies where the women are in charge

French photographer Pierre de Vallombreuse's images of matriarchal and egalitarian cultures presents another side of gender equality discourse. >
An encounter between space travel and grief in this 3D animation

French filmmaking collective BRVTVS, create a hi-tech, futuristic music video set in deep space that captures the raw human emotion of grief. >
Wat’bag turns old petrol cans into safe water storage

Inspired by the silver bag inside of a wine box, the Wat’bag pouch prevents drinkable water stored in reused jerry cans from becoming contaminated. >
Home sweet home on Mars

French 3D-printing team Fabulous has designed a dome-like, Martian habitat for space exploration. >
Marije Vogelzang imagines meat growing on plants for her food design project

Plant Bones is Dutch food designer Marije Vogelzang’s exploration into culinary creativity. >
Reconnecting to the idea of the udder

5.5 Design Studio have created the "Vache à Lait" (Milk Cow) in order to reconnect consumers to the idea of milk coming from the udder. >

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