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Redefining solar power from architectural eyesore to civic monument
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Urban & Landscape Design
Frederik Deschuytter questions: Why would we install solar power tech in remote places when the sun also shines in the city?
1 Dec 16
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Moving from health care to self-care
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Design Activism
Cubigo is leading the transformation of care when it comes to the ageing, one of the most vulnerable communities.
30 Nov 16
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Interactions between the body and space with FOS
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Danish artist-cum-designer Thomas Poulsen, also known as FOS, plays with the interactions between the human body and the space it occupies.
30 Nov 16
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Bridging the gaps between human & machine
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Design Thinking
The division between tech & biology seems more blurred now than ever before. How will this intensifying trend evolve?
30 Nov 16
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Artist interprets movement disorder into striking, intricate headpieces
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Art & Photography
Tiago Valente’s ‘Dystonia’ converts pain into beauty.
30 Nov 16
00:02:18
Francis Kokoroko: Documenting life as it goes
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Ghanaian photographer Francis Kokoroko creates images that reflect his understanding of the world.
30 Nov 16
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Student gives the traditional white cane a modern update
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Product Design
mySmartCane could provide a better quality of life for the blind.
30 Nov 16
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Van Eijk & Van Der Lubbe are changing space with influential design
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Product Design
Dutch design duo Miriam van der Lubbe and Niels van Eijk talk us through some of their most influential projects.
29 Nov 16
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Chat with Kent Lingeveldt
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Product Design
What do you want to know about Cape Town-based longboard skater and shaper Kent Lingeveldt?
29 Nov 16
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Hurricane Season by Hannah Modigh
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Art & Photography
The award-winning photographer captures the tension of living between disasters.
29 Nov 16
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What will the cities of the future look like?
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Architecture & Interiors
Hint: They’re green.
29 Nov 16
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These mirrored placards give peaceful protesters a means of protection
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Design Activism
Nikolas Bentel’s reflective protest signs for the Dakota Access Pipeline protesters.
29 Nov 16
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Insecurities: Tracing Displacement and Shelter
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Design Activism
New MOMA exhibition investigates the design & infrastructure of modern refugee camps.
29 Nov 16
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Photographer captures the vulnerability in nature as it intersects with science
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Art & Photography
Ornithological Photographs explores our need to know, name and quantify diversity.
28 Nov 16
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Naked, defenseless & without glory
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Art & Photography
Sam Jinks’ hyper-real sculptures depict an unsettling human vulnerability.
28 Nov 16
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Singapore’s self-driving scooter
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Design Thinking
A driverless scooter could be the next step in autonomous transportation.
28 Nov 16
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Unsatisfying: You know this feeling
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Film & Animation
Motion design studio Parallel Studios are calling for people to submit short animations of completely unsatisfying moments in their day.
28 Nov 16
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Me, Myself and You is a board game to help Autistic adults make friends
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Product Design
The multiplayer board game designed to facilitate social connections between those on the spectrum.
28 Nov 16
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Intimate Strangers: We The People
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Art & Photography
In Part 4 of her series Intimate Strangers, Puleng Mongale captures another pair of lookalikes and sets the images to the lyrics of A Tribe Called Quest.
25 Nov 16
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Innovative capsule achieves long-term drug delivery
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Design Thinking
This drug capsule offers an alternative to daily doses of medication
25 Nov 16
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New stick on patch uses sweat to monitor your health
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Product Design
The soft, flexible skin patch that can inspect your perspiration while you work out.
25 Nov 16
02:43
The Ethical Dilemma of Self-Driving Cars
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Film & Animation
Researchers speculate on the murky decision-making aptitude of AI vehicles.
25 Nov 16
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The EMPWR coat rolls out into a sleeping bag to keep homeless people warm
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Design Activism
Water resistant, the jacket can also be converted into and worn as an over-the-shoulder bag.
24 Nov 16
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Alternative living with 21st-century hunter-gatherers
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Art & Photography
Living Wild documents modern hunter-gatherers in a movement called the Stone Age Living Project.
24 Nov 16
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