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Walk the geometric maze of Camille Walala

The interactive exhibition is transforming the Greenwich Peninsula’s NOW Gallery into a body-bending experience. >
Could plant-based graffiti be the street art of the future?

This multimedia designer uses foliage as a paint brush. >
British technology designer Chris Sheldrick on design and reinventing the postal address

The technology designer wants to make life easier for 4 billion people without an address. >
A floating public pool designed to revive Melbourne’s Yarra River

London-based architects Studio Octopi proposed a floating pool to activate community interest around the cleanup of the Yarra River. >
This stylish and smart clothing range stretches as your children grow

Redesigning children's garments to lower costs and minimise environmental impact. >
The Misbehaving (ro)bots providing automated intimacy

Nicole Pérez’s annoying robots ponder the future of our reliance upon artificial intelligence. >
An industrial design graduate has created an Emotional First Aid Kit

Rui Sun tackles the question, “Why do so many products ease physical pain and so few treat emotional stress?” >
Lucy Feng’s experimental photography explores mysticism, movement and colour

Called ‘The Strangelings’, the images moodily blend the surreal and the regal. >
Bare Technology uses E-waste to make accessible computers for the elderly

The award-winning product was designed by two students with no design background >
Dough Universe: the children’s toy range inspiring future inventors

Technology Will Save Us launches three new Electro Dough inspired activities. >
Is this the world’s cheapest solar lamp?

UK firm designs cheap solar lamp for clean, reliable lighting. >
Wacom Creatives: A look into the experimental digital art of Miss Led

“If you want something really badly, then you don’t feel like you’re making sacrifices.” >
The colour-changing T-shirt using red cabbage to detect the presence of water pollution

From THEUNSEEN, this t-shirt line reveals some of the more shocking effects of climate change. >
The ‘smart scalpel’ that can detect cancer

A new invention for the operating theatre to help pinpoint abnormal growths. >
The Emma Watch

This unique timepiece thwarts the effect of Parkinson’s disorder. >
Not here for men

3 Must-see music videos addressing the abuse of women. >
Up in the clouds

These designs draw inspiration from the everyday cumulus. >
How to help refugees feel at home

Innovators, creatives and philanthropists around the world are working on apps and online platforms that help refugees feel at home in unfamiliar places. >
Visualising Human Rights with Benjamin Dix’s PositiveNegatives

The UK-based nonprofit produces comics to educate the masses. >
Nicole Crentsil’s Unmasked Women project tackles mental health among black women

The creative project is prioritising the work of young black women artists. >
The surreal imagery of Robert Harrison and Robie Postma’s MENU

A photographer and a chef collaborate on this series of deconstructed dishes. >
Synthetic skin could return touch to amputees

Researchers have combined solar power and electronic skin for the first time. >
Alexa Pollmann: Design, migration and a future form of statehood

Alexa Pollmann’s project Indivicracy presents a future statehood, where governments are no longer territorial and citizens are followed by a social network. >
These biodegradable products represent a fresh perspective on the traditional practices of sustainability

How can a chair and a shoebox contribute to a more ecologically sustainable future? >

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