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Sonja Bäumel
Continuing to work on applications for her Masters project, Bäumel's work engages with the boundaries between fashion design, art and biology.
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3 Feb 10
Thomas Thwaites
Thomas Thwaites is a designer whose work examines how technology, science and economics interact with trends.
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3 Feb 10
Handspring Puppet Company
The Handspring Puppet Company was founded in 1981 by Basil Jones and Adrian Kohler.
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3 Feb 10
The education tablet
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The third-generation One Laptop Per Child has launched providing education and easier access to information to children around the world.
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3 Feb 10
Rite-specific art
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Interaction Design
Infecting the City – the third Spier Public Arts Festival – is taking to the streets, squares and public spaces of Cape Town.
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2 Feb 10
thisarmy.com
thisarmy builds those useful, "little", everyday apps that, once you start using them, you cannot imagine how you ever managed without them.
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2 Feb 10
Troika
Troika is a multi-disciplinary art and design practice founded in 2003 by Conny Freyer, Eva Rucki and Sebastien Noel.
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24 Jan 10
Moggridge to direct Cooper-Hewitt
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Architecture & Interiors
The designer of the first laptop computer in 1980 and co-founder of IDEO, Bill Moggridge is now director of the US national design museum.
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15 Jan 10
Protofarm 2050: Multinational Feedback Loop
Do Tank News
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Interaction Design
Futurefarmers explain their Multinational Feedback Loop - recycling and reusing, in order to sustain the cultivation of renewable resources.
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7 Jan 10
Protofarm 2050: Electrocyte Appendix
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Design Thinking
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Interaction Design
The Electrocyte Appendix is a human organ for converting blood sugar into electricity.
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15 Dec 09
Protofarm 2050: Oogst
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Design Thinking
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Frank Tjepkema's Oogst is a self-sustaining environment for 1, 100 or 1 000 people.
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15 Dec 09
Protofarm 2050: Victory Gardens
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Design Thinking
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Interaction Design
Amy Franceschini explains Futurefarmers's approach to community-based Victory Gardens.
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15 Dec 09
Protofarm 2050: Foragers
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Design Thinking
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Interaction Design
Dunne&Raby speculate that people will start using genetic modification to maximize the nutritional value of their surroundings.
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14 Dec 09
Protofarm 2050: The Guide To Free Farming
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Interaction Design
The Guide to Free Farming, by 5.5 designers, is a handbook to sourcing nutrition in the urban environment.
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14 Dec 09
Techno poetry with Troika at DI2010
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Information Design
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Interaction Design
Founded in 2003, the multi-disciplinary art and design practice have found remarkable outlets for their social interventions.
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7 Dec 09
Brighton Festival calls on Brian Eno
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Architecture & Interiors
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Creative Economy
Iconic culture figure and 1970s glam rocker, Brian Eno has been appointed as guest artistic director for next year’s Brighton Festival.
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5 Dec 09
Protofarm 2050
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Design Thinking
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Design Indaba commissioned a range of top designers to conceive the ways in which farming will adapt in the future.
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24 Nov 09
Protofarm 2050 in Singapore
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Architecture & Interiors
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Food Design
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Industrial Design
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Interaction Design
“Farming should be viewed as the sustainable cultivation of a renewable resource,” announces Protofarm 2050 at the World Design Congress.
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24 Nov 09
What if designers were scientists?
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Interaction Design
Anthony Dunne and Fiona Raby have curated an exhibition of hypothetical future designs.
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7 Nov 09
Protofarm 2050
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Design Thinking
Design Indaba will be presenting Protofarm 2050 at the ICSID World Design Congress in Singapore from 23 to 25 November.
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3 Nov 09
Transhuman metamorphosis
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Product Design
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Interaction Design
Design Indaba speaks to designer Revital Cohen about her design provocations.
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1 Nov 09
Mould robots
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Information Design
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Interaction Design
Scientists at the University of the West of England are to design the first-ever biological robot using mould.
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1 Nov 09
Body pharming
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Design Thinking
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Interaction Design
Michael Burton’s design projects predict a future scenario where people grow and produce clinical and pharmaceutical products on the body.
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1 Nov 09
Cereal assemblage
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Interaction Design
Alexandra Daisy Ginsberg and Sascha Pohflepp examined the potential of synthetic biology to be used to grow products.
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1 Nov 09
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