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Something fishy

This floating pavilion, which resembles a fish eye, is dedicated to sustainable fishing. >
Necessity is the mother of invention

Tomasz Raczyński, Dominik Baraniecki and Piotr Walter win the 2022 James Dyson Award for SmartHEAL. >
Building sustainability

Coburg University Master’s students designed a tiny house made entirely of renewable materials that adopts cradle-to-cradle principles >
Woodkid

Driving a car powered by discarded wood, across forgotten parts of Germany, is performance art with a difference. >
A changing landscape

This week: Design takes Gold in Tokyo; the war on waste; and artists changing norms… >
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 >
Exploring Woven Cosmos, Kenyan biophilia, music’s mavericks, & our newest multimedia-ists

New worlds >
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. >
Why KoolKiel’s cool, Kenya’s new CAMO-flage, proud LGBTQIA+ garb, & more!

A shot of Expression >
#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. >
#DI Global Graduate Ackeem Ngwenya envisions a future of fashion inclusivity with REFRAMD eyewear

REFRAMD’s vision is one of individualized solutions to eyewear. >
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. >
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. >
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. >
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. >
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..." >
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. >
How 'Sakhile&Me' is connecting Africa to the world

Sakhile Matlhare explains how she created a hybrid art and research gallery in Frankfurt, Germany. >
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. >
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. >
Markus Kayser

Designer

The German designer's work focuses on novel design and digital fabrication processes at the intersection of design, technology, and biology. >
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. >
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. >
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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