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Cardboard shelter
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An origami-inspired corrugated cardboard shelter is a great temporary solution for the urban homeless and victims of disaster.
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8 Oct 10
Ponds for ecosystems
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Domestic Ponds explores the benefits of ecosystems and looks at creative ways of bringing them into the home.
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7 Oct 10
Gun free, tree rich
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A design campaign in Mexico called for the voluntary donation of weapons, and turned them into useful shovels with which to plant trees.
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7 Oct 10
Containing hope
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Tsai Design Studio's repurposed freight containers are bringing joy to poor communities in the Western Cape.
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7 Oct 10
Built from beer (crates)
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Architecture & Interiors
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Architects SHSH used beer crates for a temporary pavilion celebrating the 50th anniversary of the 1958 Universal World Exhibition.
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6 Oct 10
Welcome to Residence 2.0
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Residence 2.0 might be the most energy-efficient home ever. It's setting the pace for green homes, and its rather beautiful.
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1 Oct 10
Entries open for Emerging Creatives at DI2011
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Show your talent at Design Indaba Expo 2011 by entering the Emerging Creatives Programme.
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30 Sep 10
Blown away
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Design Thinking
Renewable energy solutions are a key concern for designers across the world. See the world's largest offshore wind farm in the UK.
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28 Sep 10
What happens next
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Interaction Design
Further Instructions, a critical design show by Revital Cohen and Tuur van Balen, explored the complexity of multiple urban narratives.
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27 Sep 10
Creative makeover
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Urban & Landscape Design
The healing power of art and creativity is helping to uplift and empower teen boys living on the streets of Cape Town.
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24 Sep 10
Love thy neighbour
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Design Thinking
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Design Thinking
Live and let live, sew your own clothes, grow your own veggies and stop the blame game. Meet one writer/activist that's made this work.
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22 Sep 10
Mobile lifeline
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Information Design
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The Lifeplayer is a new mobile innovation with the potential to dramatically improve the state of education in Africa.
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18 Sep 10
Can-do accommodation
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Architecture & Interiors
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Design Thinking
House-in-a-Can is both a cost-effective housing solution and a novel way of giving unused grain silos a second life.
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18 Sep 10
Design Indaba Conference 2011
For the seventh year in a row Design Indaba Conference is sold out, with some two weeks to go until the event.
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15 Sep 10
Rockstars & reformers
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Music & Sound Design
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Urban & Landscape Design
PASS Radio effectively uses the internet to facilitate a progressive cause.
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15 Sep 10
Brief benefits
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Fashion & Jewellery Design
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Design Thinking
Proceeds from PACT's funky new underwear collection will help artist's with development disabilities.
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13 Sep 10
International influence
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Product Design
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Design Thinking
The Tramshed Event is hoping to add some international flair to the London Design Festival through a collaborative show.
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9 Sep 10
Challenging chickens
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Music & Sound Design
Chicken to Change is a brilliant collaboration between Freshlyground and ZA News, commenting on the leadership of Robert Mugabe.
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7 Sep 10
Bruce Mau on change and crises
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Design Activism
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What we need in a time of crisis is love, ambition and a redesign of the entire human environment as a work of art.
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6 Sep 10
For the sake of inspiration
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Graphic Design & Illustration
Inspiration and the creative process are thought to be bedfellows. A new book, Inspired, explores to what extent the two rely on each other.
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2 Sep 10
Shaped for solar success
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Information Design
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Design Thinking
Custom-shaped solar panels are helping to popularise the use of solar panels because of their flexibility and versatility.
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30 Aug 10
The story of innovation
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Creative Economy
From garage enterprise to multinational. In A Fine Line Hartmut Esslinger takes the reader on frog design's life journey.
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29 Aug 10
Design Indaba magazine outsources to India
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Design Thinking
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Creative Economy
Bollywood, cricket, curry and the Kama Sutra. These are probably the clichés most people associate with India. We challenge the stereotype.
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27 Aug 10
W+K Delhi on recreating India
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Design Thinking
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Graphic Design & Illustration
For India to prosper notions of prosperity, social justice and democracy need to be redefined. W+K Delhi look at creative solutions.
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27 Aug 10
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