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A Non-ageist App
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Creative Economy
Experience the mysterious smell of space for yourself.
9 Jul 20
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The rise of gaming activism
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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
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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
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Urban & Landscape Design
Crossing the borders between biology and code to create digital art.
9 Jul 20
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Water Wonderland
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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
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Currents for Currents, an award winning concept for a floating community
3 Jul 20
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Portable Potable
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Quench Sea, a portable desalination device
3 Jul 20
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Plastic Pandemic
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How will the Covid-19 Health Pandemic affect the world's oceans?
3 Jul 20
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A new source of water?
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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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Meet the Emerging Creatives who exhibited at Design Indaba 2020
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The Emerging Creatives programme is a product of creative inclusion created by Design Indaba and supported by the Department of Arts and Culture.
19 Jun 20
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Designers Leta and Wade on living and working together successfully
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The couple talked about honesty, creativity, their project Complements and the universal strangeness of love.
19 Jun 20
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The new face of collaboration #BetterTogether
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Urban & Landscape Design
This week, we’re exploring unconventional collaborations and combinations that show how diverse partnerships can present new opportunities.
17 Jun 20
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