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Something fishy
This floating pavilion, which resembles a fish eye, is dedicated to sustainable fishing.
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Necessity is the mother of invention
Tomasz Raczyński, Dominik Baraniecki and Piotr Walter win the 2022 James Dyson Award for SmartHEAL.
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Building sustainability
Coburg University Master’s students designed a tiny house made entirely of renewable materials that adopts cradle-to-cradle principles
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Woodkid
Driving a car powered by discarded wood, across forgotten parts of Germany, is performance art with a difference.
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A changing landscape
This week: Design takes Gold in Tokyo; the war on waste; and artists changing norms…
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No Waste Challenge 2021 winner Mapu is the world’s first active sound system made of clay, wood, cork and wool
Craft-led Mapu proves that eco-friendly materials can replace plastics in electronics
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Exploring Woven Cosmos, Kenyan biophilia, music’s mavericks, & our newest multimedia-ists
New worlds
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Hella Jongerius - a former #DI Speaker - welcomes you into her magical world of weaving
Woven Cosmos, Hella Jongerius’ interactive show, demonstrates 25 years of textile wisdom.
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Why KoolKiel’s cool, Kenya’s new CAMO-flage, proud LGBTQIA+ garb, & more!
A shot of Expression
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#DI Speaker Winy Maas’s latest MVRDV project, KoolKiel, is a community-engaged, resident-designed building
For its new building project in Germany, MVRDV has asked the community what they want.
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#DI Global Graduate Ackeem Ngwenya envisions a future of fashion inclusivity with REFRAMD eyewear
REFRAMD’s vision is one of individualized solutions to eyewear.
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The Ideal City – A Crowd-Sourced Recipe for Building the Cities of the Future
SPACE10 and gestalten’s new book release asks experts how to create better cities.
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The new solar powered eBussy
The reconfigurable, modular light vehicle innovatively adapts to your needs, as often as you like. From a convertible to a station wagon, off-roader and more.
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Ignis uses household materials to create a safe, reliable source of energy
Antenna 2019 speaker Tobias Trubenbacher created Ignis to help provide clean and affordable energy to those without access to electricity.
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Generative design creates new ways to form a brand's identity
From wine, dance and even voice, designer Patrik Hübner chats us through how he uses creative algorithms to tell new stories.
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This women-led tech school has an innovative curriculum at its core
"I make it a priority to work with women and persons from under-represented communities in the tech world because times have changed..."
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This monument combines history, art and architecture
The architects worked in collaboration with photographer Edward Burtynsky, Holocaust scholar Doris Bergen and landscape architect Claude Comier.
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How 'Sakhile&Me' is connecting Africa to the world
Sakhile Matlhare explains how she created a hybrid art and research gallery in Frankfurt, Germany.
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Argentinian artist uses 100, 000 banned books to build a monument
Conceptual artist Marta Minujín has created a full-scale replica of the Parthenon – one of the world’s most famous structures.
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Ilze Wolff on creating an activist and public culture around architecture
In this architectural practice collaboration with artists is just as important as working with other architects and engineers.
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Markus Kayser
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The German designer's work focuses on novel design and digital fabrication processes at the intersection of design, technology, and biology.
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Sebastian Gier's futuristic Xplore project nominated for Dezeen Award
Since his presentation at Antenna in 2017, the German designer has been making big waves.
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A better way to harvest water from air
Tested in the arid regions of Morocco, the CloudFisher claims to be the next generation in fog collecting.
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Six creative crowdfunding projects worth supporting this April
From a wordless graphic novel to a project to turn an olive farm into a retreat for creatives and even a project turning plastic into homeware.
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