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The inaugural antenna brought together graduate designers from around the world to tackle social issues by using creativity.
Is it possible for childbearing to happen outside the human body?
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Billie Rehwald talks about her project Ectogenesis, which is looking at using design as a tool to consider this possible reality.
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11 Jul 19
Caroline Smeenk on designing products to help pregnant women who can't access hospitals
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Design Thinking
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Product Design
"17% of rural Canadians live over 2 hours away from their nearest hospital."
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8 May 18
This Polish designer created a book that puts you in the shoes of someone with dementia
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The Polish photographer and communication designer turned her frustration into art.
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31 Mar 18
Two young designers tackle what it will mean to age in 2050
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Information Design
Mar Ginot Blanco and Aaron Garlick aim to design for future challenges based on present and past movements in design.
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10 Jan 18
This urban designer tracks down where the energy in our cities comes from
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Design Thinking
Could her singing manhole covers advocate for energy systems and the humans who use them?
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12 Dec 17
Thomy is an insulin kit designed with the needs of diabetic children in mind
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Product designer Renata Souza talks about the inspiration and process behind her award-winning insulin kit.
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4 Dec 17
Imagine a future where your car window is a way for you to control your driving experience
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Sebastien Gier talks us through his project where your car window lets you manipulate what you see outside, take pictures, bookmark and more.
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4 Dec 17
How discarded bananas led these two designers into looking at consumerism and food waste
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Product Design
By tracking how bananas make it to Iceland, where there are no plantations, these designers shine a spotlight on waste and consumerism.
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4 Dec 17
Awundiboni looks at how rape culture reduces women's everyday experiences
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African Design
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Design Activism
Thandiwe Msebenzi talks about her photography work as well as how she wants to use VR to further explore the topic.
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4 Dec 17
This MIT sound artist is exploring the power of sound in public spaces
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Music & Sound Design
Nicolas Kisic Aguirre developed the Modular Rhythm Machine, an algorithmically controlled machine inspired by the Peruvian Cajon.
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4 Dec 17
Myles Loftin explores racial profiling of black men wearing hoodies
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Art & Photography
The photographer says his project was partly inspired by the killing of Trayvon Martin.
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4 Dec 17
Designer Kazuya Kawasaki on the future of zero-waste fashion design
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Design Thinking
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Fashion & Jewellery Design
What is the alternative role of the fashion designer in the age of biotechnology?
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4 Dec 17
Providing accommodation for tourists does not have to come at the expense of locals
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Architecture & Interiors
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Creative Economy
Using one of Cuba's oldest and rapidly gentrifying neighbourhoods as a lens, architect Iwo Borkowicz explores tourism and social housing.
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4 Dec 17
An impactful project inspired by the designer's own experience recovering in hospital
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Design Thinking
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Product Design
Alissa Rees is reinventing the IV pole often used in hospitals for a more dynamic, dignified experience.
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1 Dec 17
Where product design and conservationism meet
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Food Design
University of Applied Arts graduate Alexandra sees no boundaries between politics, culture and technology as she designs the Menu from the new Wild.
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1 Dec 17
Creating local employment in Mexico with a new sustainable material
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Designer Fernando Laposse is reviving an embattled farming process to offer Mexico an alternative livelihood.
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1 Dec 17
Exploring nutmeg's connection to Dutch colonial history and fashion
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Craft
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Fashion & Jewellery Design
Royal College of Art graduate Marta Velasco Velasco presented a concise history lesson on the spice trade and textile industry of the colonial world.
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1 Dec 17
Take a look at SAM, the machine that makes and sells its own cola
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Design Thinking
Design Academy Eindhoven graduate Marie Caye presents a contrarian view to the ever-present notion that creativity should be human-centric.
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1 Dec 17
What craft lies behind image-making?
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Graphic Design & Illustration
MIT's Lucy Liu talks about their project that interrogates the work of one image maker per issue.
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30 Nov 17
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