Celebrate designs that address serious modern challenges, this year's INDEX Awards winners include clean energy batteries and a language learning app. >
Overflowing with Malian refugees and in need of classrooms, sandbags made for the most logical and durable building material for a school at Mbera refugee camp. >
The architecture of the Waterbank campus in Kenya is built to collect, store and filter water for irrigation use while serving as a school for children. >
Parsons graduate Yogita Agrawal has designed Jhoule, a device that gives rural communities in India a reliable source of energy by harnessing their daily walk. >
Born colour-blind, Neil Harbisson invented an antenna that converts colour into sound and had it implanted into his skull. Now he’s officially a cyborg. >
Upgrading Africa’s largest slum has taken more than a decade, but the process is changing the conversation about how to handle informal urban neighbourhoods. >
The largest producer of aviation biofuels, Fulcrum BioEnergy aims to provide an alternative to petroleum by converting household garbage into jet fuel. >
Charlotte Slingsby’s wind-energy generator doesn’t need hectares of land and costly turbines: it only uses a sheet of plastic and clever design and engineering. >
