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Crowdsourced mapping to highlight crisis zones

MapSwipe is a smartphone application used to crowdsource information about previously undiscovered crisis zones. >
EyeControl: The first screen-free device for ALS patients

Often patients with ALS are "locked in" and unable to speak or use their limbs. With EyeControl, "locked-in" patients can communicate using eye-scrolling tech. >
Floating greenhouse is both sustainable and educational

Serbian design firm Salt & Water have conceptualised a floating community hub that teaches green living. >
The Plasmorph: A living diary

Relying on memory alone can be daunting. Conceptual designer Ann-Kristin Abel envisions a living organism that provides customised information, >
Panama’s waste is now a village of plastic bottles

Isla Colón in Bocas Del Toro, Panama will be home to an entire village constructed out of recycled plastic bottles. >
CrowdVoice: An archive of social unrest from around the world

Esra’a Al Shafei’s online platform curates user-generated content from protests around the world. >
Enter your design to the Green Product Award

The Green Product Award have extended their deadline exclusively for Design Indaba readers. Submissions are open until Sunday 13 March. >
This is what it's like to read with dyslexia

Victor Widell’s interactive blog post lets the viewer experience what it’s like to be dyslexic. >
One week left to enter the A’ Design Awards

Entries for all categories of the prestigious A’ Design Awards have now been extended to 7 March. >
Integrating VR into fine dining

Samsung says its virtual reality headset will enhance the fine dining experience, but do we need to? >
Last chance to enter the A’ Design Awards

Entries are still open for all categories of the prestigious A’ Design Awards. >
Echosight: Changing the way we retell global stories

Echosight uses multiple exposure to compare and contrast visual stories from around the world. >
Enter your best designs to the A' Design Awards & Competition

There’s still time for you to enter your best designs into the prestigious A' Design Awards & Competition 2016. >
Design Indaba's Global Graduates – these are the ones to watch

We'd like to introduce you to the talented Global Graduates who’ll be presenting their work at the Design Indaba Conference 2016. >
A' Design Awards is calling for entries across all design categories

A' Design Award calls for entries in industrial design, architecture, interior design, furniture, lighting and building materials. >
Who are the best designers in the world?

83 countries are ranked in arts, architecture and design based on the number of design awards won, with the United States taking the top position. >
Flying solar farm generates energy around the clock

Solar balloons generate energy where clouds cannot interfere with their efficiency. >
Space habitation could begin with a village on the moon

The ESA plans to send huge 3D printers to space to build a village on the moon. >
Paper Prison lets the user experience Mandela’s Robben Island cell

The Mandela inspired Paper Prison lauded as one of this year’s most creative designs, according to AIGA. >
LibraryBox is open source tech made easy

The LibraryBox bridges the gap of information delivery in developing nations without internet access. >
How should we be responding to the migrant "crisis"?

The movement of displaced and refuged humans across the world will surely define this decade. We ask prominent design thinkers their thoughts on how to help. >
The design, art and fashion communities respond to the migrant crisis

The movement of displaced humans across the world will surely define this decade. We ask prominent design thinkers their thoughts on how to help. >
Ethical Things: A look at the morality of smart devices

What happens when the smart devices we’ve become accustomed to are forced to make moral decisions? >
AMIE: The next generation in off-the-grid living

This off-the-grid shelter is 3D-printed and powered by a mobile power source. >

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