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This week, we look at predictive and progressive realities for the human condition. >

This week, we optimistically seek enlightenment by focusing on bright ideas and inventive solutions that light the way to a better world. >

CarbFix captures CO2 from industry, dissolves it in water, and injects it deep underground. >

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

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

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

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

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

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

Quench Sea, a portable desalination device >

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

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

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

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

Mazbahul Islam is one of the young global graduates who presented at the 2020 Design Indaba Conference. >

Global graduate, Sacha Buliard spoke at the 2020 Design Indaba Conference. >

The global graduate designs solutions for sexual assault survivors and will speaking at #DI2020. >

Communication designer Ananya Khaitan is driven to confront sociopolitical issues head-on in his native India. >

Vukheta Mukhari and his team members created the world’s first bio-brick made from human urine. >

This week, we’re exploring unconventional collaborations and combinations that show how diverse partnerships can present new opportunities. >

China’s most successful online learning platform, Qkids is taking learning into the physical realm with newly designed space. >

“Ecocapsule is your design way to independent living. It can become a pop-up hotel, caravan, mobile office, research station or anything you want it to." >

“Our goal is to merge and power our electronic functionalities with existing biological functions of living plants.” >

This project explores interaction and collaboration between high-tech cultivation and peoples' everyday lives. >

Olafur Eliasson has teamed up with Kumi Naidoo to create artwork that highlights the collaboration between press freedom and its reader. >