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Pedro&Juana: Architecture is a social service
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Architecture & Interiors
Mexico City-based architecture and design practice Pedro&Juana create interactive and customisable spaces.
6 May 16
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The world’s first 3D-printed wheelchair that can be customised on an app
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Product Design
Layer is soon to launch its new 3D-printed wheelchair, made to fit each individual’s body and disability.
6 May 16
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Manmade plant creates oxygen in space
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Product Design
The Silk Leaf needs only water and light to create oxygen in the harshest of environments.
6 May 16
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A parachute that turns into a shelter for refugees or disaster victims
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Product Design
Portugal-based STUDIOMUDA design a prefabricated shelter that can be easily deployed out of an airplane.
6 May 16
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New York rec centre combines gaming and exercise
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Interaction Design
Interactive and high-intensity, this circuit-based gym changes the experience of exercise.
6 May 16
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Chimera IoT: a Kenyan startup designing smart homes
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Architecture & Interiors
The recently established company adapts Western technology to African specific conditions.
5 May 16
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A self-healing biomaterial is the closest yet to mimicking human muscle
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Product Design
New biomaterial possesses extreme stretchability, self-healing and endurance properties; all revolutionary in the development of artificial skin and muscle.
5 May 16
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Traffic lights designed for distracted walkers
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Urban & Landscape Design
The German city of Augsburg installs pavement lights to ensure the safety of pedestrians distracted by their phones.
5 May 16
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Six documentaries that seek to drive change
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Film & Animation
Six documentary films will seek to make their mark at Good Pitch, an initiative that brings social change through cinematic arts.
5 May 16
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Cricket Shelter: A modular way to farm food
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Food Design
Terreform ONE’s latest contribution to hybrid architecture is a modular urban insect farm that promises to be a sustainable food hub.
5 May 16
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Green Product: Breathing Skins adapts to the environment
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Product Design
A showroom in Germany allows users to experience technology that adapts internal conditions to its external environment.
4 May 16
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Bicycle system designed for heavy duty, urban cargo delivery
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Product Design
Carla Cargo is a zero-emission and more agile alternative to the traditional delivery van.
4 May 16
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Earthquake-resistant orphanage in Haiti is the start of a greater social initiative
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Architecture & Interiors
Ti Kay Là was built to house, support and educate street children in Haiti who are living in extreme poverty and without shelter.
4 May 16
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Alex McDowell: Reimagining the narrative of storytelling
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Interaction Design
World-renowned production designer Alex McDowell is the man behind immersive, 5D worlds.
4 May 16
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The Muko furniture series is designed with kids in mind
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Craft
Today’s kids spend more and more time seated. These chairs are designed to ensure their comfort.
4 May 16
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All Love Is Equal takes a fairytale approach to LGBTIQ relationships
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Design Activism
All love is iconic and all love should be viewed as a fairytale, says LGBTIQ photographer Braden Summers.
3 May 16
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Slut-shaming: Changing minds through photography
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Art & Photography
Local photographer’s campaign to stop slut-shaming looks at the pain of the victim.
3 May 16
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Khanya Njalo brings solar lighting to rural communities
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Design Activism
The project, initiated in rural KwaZulu-Natal, provides solar powered lighting solutions to rural communities.
3 May 16
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Green Product: Harvest Cart is a solution to backyard farming
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Product Design
The small-scale harvesting cart makes collecting produce easier.
3 May 16
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Green Product: Citycropps virtually helps create a functional garden
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Information Design
Citycropps is an urban agricultural project that virtually assists app users as they cultivate their own organic gardens.
3 May 16
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Humanoid robot recovers sunken treasure
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Design Thinking
OceanOne is Stanford’s mermaid-like robot that can stand in for a human driver.
3 May 16
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Backpacks made from blankets
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Product Design
Sibusiso Mokhachane makes backpacks from blankets to celebrate his heritage and help the world unlearn African stereotypes.
2 May 16
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Conceptual fashion by Bokang Lehabe
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Fashion & Jewellery Design
Bokang Lehabe, one of Design Indaba Emerging Creative 2016, creates award winning, conceptual fashion.
2 May 16
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EVOLVE: Egypt’s local artists interpret Phobia
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Graphic Design & Illustration
Cairo-based art project, EVOLVE calls local artists together to contemplate and share their digital interpretations of phobia.
2 May 16
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