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Cape Town's Sk8 for Gr8 merges design, skate culture and philanthropy
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28 Aug 15
Mentorship initiative Sk8 for Gr8 hopes to inspire Cape Town's disadvantaged kids to utilise their creativity.
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Get Good Done: an app that turns its users into philanthropists
Design News
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28 Aug 15
An American design student has developed an app that encourages users to do one good deed a day.
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Your Street Project in Risør, Norway
Do Tank News
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28 Aug 15
Both Risør and Bergen allow city residents to actively take part in shaping their own city using the Design Indaba Your Street competition.
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Slimee W21 is a new wearable designed for the elderly
Design News
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28 Aug 15
Toshiba’s smartband is designed to help Japanese families monitor the health of elderly relatives living in remote places.
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The post-antibiotics era is near and the solution could be in your backyard
Design Frontiers
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31 Aug 15
Vidhi Mehta posits that Post/Biotics can establish a global database that will help scientists find substances that could hold the potential for new antibiotics
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René Peña's black and white photographs demand attention
Design News
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31 Aug 15
This Cuban photographer's haunting images send powerful messages about the individual's relationship to society.
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Ceiling in a Can offers a low-cost solution to low-cost housing
Product Spotlight
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31 Aug 15
Cape Town entrepreneur Dave Pons has created Ceiling in a Can, DIY ceilings for low-cost housing.
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Technological disobedience: Cuba's amateur inventors create without resources
Design News
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31 Aug 15
Limited resources and very little access to legal trade forced Cubans to create machines using household objects.
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A sense of nostalgia permeates Amanda du Plessis' designs
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31 Aug 15
Drawing inspiration from the landscape, the heritage and the narratives of South Africa, Amanda du Plessis is telling stories through design.
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