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Marjan van Aubel uses intelligent design to solve energy and food production problems
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Urban & Landscape Design
In her work she looks at our current relationship with solar technology and how it can be used to enhance and future-proof city living.
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3 Jun 19
Drawing water out of thin air
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How Majik Water tapped a water source that is all around us.
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29 May 19
Mileha Soneji designs low-tech tools for Parkinson’s patients
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The product designer has created two products to cater to people suffering from Parkinson's.
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28 May 19
Roy Allela invents tech that translates sign language into audio
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The Kenyan inventor was inspired by his deaf niece to create Sign-IO, a glove that interprets sign language into speech.
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27 May 19
Freyja Sewell is designing cognitive training technology for the future
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The Royal College of Art graduate’s work focuses on meditation and developing technology for the mind.
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23 May 19
Bug burgers and micro-algae buns: the cookbook of the future
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Food Design
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SPACE10 has been cooking up a storm in their Test Kitchen to bring you an unorthodox assortment of meals from the future.
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17 May 19
Shaina Garfield on how we can benefit the Earth after death
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She shared how her project Leaves proposes a sustainable coffin that will help the body decompose naturally.
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16 May 19
Mirjam de Bruijn's work explores the border between function and aesthetics
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She speaks about Twenty, a range of waterless dissolvable capsules that take away the need to use 80 - 95% water to make these products.
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15 May 19
Carolien Niebling is creating the sausage of the future
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Product designer Carolien Niebling believes that people can make a difference if they just take a moment to look at things a little differently.
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14 May 19
Ida is a non-invasive, painless way to test blood/glucose levels
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“When designing for these diseases, you’re not designing to please or impress. You design because people are on fire and you might just have the water.”
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7 May 19
Inclusive, human-centred furniture for the disabled
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Inspired by her sister who has Down's Syndrome, the designer behind this furniture range uses a human-centred approach to design.
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6 May 19
This Angolan innovation hub is helping to transform the nation’s creative sector
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We chat to some of the Fábrica de Sabão team about innovation, community upliftment and serving Africa first.
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25 Apr 19
Afrominima is a Nigerian lifestyle brand inspired by Japanese and Scandinavian aesthetics
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The Olubunmi Adeyemi-helmed brand brings the minimalist movement to Africa.
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24 Apr 19
Markus Kayser's work enables collaboration between tech and biology
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“The promise of design is to inspire industry to follow suit in the quest for better methods to produce using solar energy and abundant resources.”
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16 Apr 19
Subverting the gendered implications of wearable tech
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TELEXST aims to turn the gendered nature of wearable tech on its head.
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16 Apr 19
Keenan Wyrobek on saving lives with drones
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“Doctors shared with us their torment at losing patients they knew how to save. They knew the treatments. They just didn’t have the supplies.”
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15 Apr 19
Rodrigo Garcia Gonzalez on tackling the world’s problems with creativity
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Gonzalez shares his method to coming up with creative solutions to everyday problems.
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12 Apr 19
The eco-friendly benefits of a busted smartphone
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“This project takes the seemingly catastrophic moment in which the smartphone breaks as an opportunity to redefine the value of the expired object.”
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11 Apr 19
Bringing Afrocentric design to Milan Design Week
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Meet the South African designers who will be exhibiting their work for the first time at Milan Design Week.
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10 Apr 19
How ostrich feathers are uplifting Oudtshoorn's economy through design
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Pascale Theron's work looks at breathing life into the vulnerable ostrich farming industry in Oudtshoorn, South Africa.
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8 Apr 19
Dave Hakkens on tackling the planet's waste
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“When I start something I like to start with a problem.”
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5 Apr 19
IKEA ÖVERALLT: In the designers' words
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At Design Indaba Conference 2019, the group of African designers share the motivations behind the products they dreamed up and realised.
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2 Apr 19
Cross Cultural Chairs examines the role of the chair in our modern society
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"Analysing a chair you can understand the stature of a culture, what kind of materials they used and what kind of techniques they knew."
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1 Apr 19
On cityscapes and soundsuits with future-proofing graduate Ines De Peuter
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Ines De Peuter investigates the relationship between the self and its context by creating garments that adapt to the concrete jungle.
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1 Apr 19
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