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Recycling the Serpentine Pavilion

Design News > Architecture & Interiors

Johannesburg-based collaborative architectural studio and all women team, Counterspace will be designing the iconic Serpentine Pavilion for 2020/2021.

16 Jul 20
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McDonald’s first solar panel designed restaurant

Design Frontiers > Architecture & Interiors

First ever net zero energy restaurant by McDonald’s opened up at the Walt Disney World Resort in Florida.

16 Jul 20
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This glow kit allows you to attract the fish species you hope to catch

Design News > Product Design

Created by SafetyNet Technologies the device is described as a light emitting device that is adaptable to many different fish species.

16 Jul 20
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A Non-ageist App

Design News > Product Design

Mighty Health is tailored to the fitness and nutritional needs of older adults.

16 Jul 20
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Discover a new perspective of Earth with Spaceship Neptune

Design News > Industrial Design

This space balloon can hold up to eight passengers and a pilot, for a six-hour trip at an anticipated price of around $125,000 per person.

16 Jul 20
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Lilium Jet: The new wave of air mobility

Design News > Industrial Design

What if your uber could fly? And we’re not referring to breaking the road speed limit…

16 Jul 20
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Personalised sushi based on your DNA biodata

Design News > Urban & Landscape Design

Japanese restaurant, Sushi Singularity uncannily predicts the convergence of wasabi and the world wide web.

16 Jul 20
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‘The search of the glow’ installation by Ling-li Tseng

Design Frontiers > Industrial Design

Set amidst a Taiwanese forest, “the search of the glow” is an ephemeral, spherical LED installation that illuminates its natural context.

16 Jul 20
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Sir David Adjaye honours police brutality victim with public memorial

Design News > Architecture & Interiors

Adjaye unveiled a London public memorial for Cherry Groce, a black woman who was shot by the Metropolitan Police in her own home in 1985.

16 Jul 20
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Parallaxis: A film on understanding earth’s architecture

Design News > Design Thinking

Parallaxis asks us to contemplate an intergenerational, interplanetary existence that connects the now, before, and future of this ecosystem.

9 Jul 20
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The one of a kind NASA designed Fragrance

Design News > Creative Economy

Experience the mysterious smell of space for yourself.

9 Jul 20
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The rise of gaming activism

Design News > Interaction Design

Fortnite decides to educate its users about systemic racism and gets them to battle prejudice

9 Jul 20
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Translating a Japanese proverb with vocals and visuals

Design News > Urban & Landscape Design

The film explores the Japanese concept of the space between all things.

9 Jul 20
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Turning data collected from your heartbeat into messages for your loved ones

Design News > Urban & Landscape Design

Crossing the borders between biology and code to create digital art.

9 Jul 20
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Water Wonderland

Design News > Urban & Landscape Design

Here are a few ways in which the world’s most fluid minds are responding to issues of water preservation and sustainability.

7 Jul 20
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Current Affairs

Design News > Design Thinking

Currents for Currents, an award winning concept for a floating community

3 Jul 20
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Portable Potable

Design News > Design Thinking

Quench Sea, a portable desalination device

3 Jul 20
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Plastic Pandemic

Design News > Design Thinking

How will the Covid-19 Health Pandemic affect the world's oceans?

3 Jul 20
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A new source of water?

Design News > Product Design

A new sponge-like nanomaterial, designed to be used in existing dehumidifiers, could offer a new source of aqua.

3 Jul 20
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Sustainable bricks made from recycled sand and plastic waste

Design Frontiers > Industrial Design

Tackling the massive waste and pollution issue in India.

3 Jul 20
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This non-profit is combating climate change with underwater farming

Design News > Urban & Landscape Design

Regenerative ocean farmers, GreenWave have developed a model of sustainable underwater vertical farming

3 Jul 20
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A floating farm that is designed to reduce wasteful emissions

Design News > Urban & Landscape Design

“Technologies that minimize the ecological footprint and are based on circular principles are aimed for on all levels of the farm."

3 Jul 20
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The design squadron of the future

Design News > Urban & Landscape Design

Meet the bright young creatives who have surfaced through our three longstanding youth programmes: Emerging Creatives, Global Graduates and antenna.

25 Jun 20
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Kathryn Larsen on why seaweed is the building material of the future

Next Generation > Urban & Landscape Design

Larsen looked to an ancient method from the Middle Ages used to thatch roofs out of seaweed and brought it back to the present.

19 Jun 20

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