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MIT researchers reveal world's thinnest solar cell
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1 Mar 16
A team at MIT have created an ultra-thin solar cell that could open up new applications for solar power in the long term.
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Phone booth gets a green makeover
Design News
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1 Mar 16
Artist transforms a London phone booth into a botanical box to call for the greening up of city spaces.
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3D printed braille maps for navigating interiors
Design News
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1 Mar 16
Rutgers University researchers hope their new braille maps will become a new standard feature in all public spaces.
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Jaun van Wyk: Bringing the art back into architecture
Design Frontiers
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1 Mar 16
Cape Town based architect Jaun van Wyk plans to restore architecture to an art form.
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Agriculture meets architecture in France's urban farm tower
Design News
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1 Mar 16
Built like a staircase, ABF-lab's urban farming structure aims to raise awareness and encourage better living and social responsibility.
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Nursery Fields Forever imagines a preschool where kids learn how to farm
Design News
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2 Mar 16
Rome-based design team wins an architecture award for its new age urban farming school for children.
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NASA invites public to send art to space
Design News
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2 Mar 16
NASA’s upcoming mission to a near-Earth asteroid will take with it artworks submitted by explorers from around the world.
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Concept artist merges Maasai warriors with sci-fi tech
Design News
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2 Mar 16
Rodrigo Galdino imagines what it would look like if traditional Maasai warriors integrated alien tech into their culture.
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A moss wall that creates clean, green energy
Next Generation
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2 Mar 16
Graduate Elena Mitrofanova has designed a modular system that generates electricity from moss.
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Miniature art scenes inspired by film
Design Frontiers
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2 Mar 16
This artist forgets about time when she creates her painstakingly detailed dioramas.
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Free community skatepark in Ethiopia
Design Frontiers
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2 Mar 16
A non-profit organisation is building skateparks in rural areas around the globe.
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Zami Life: A stool for smart sitting in an age of inactivity
Design News
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3 Mar 16
The Zami smart stool promotes healthy living through innovative furniture design.
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A garden that stretches across Africa
Design Frontiers
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3 Mar 16
The Great Green Wall of Africa will be the biggest man-made marvel in the world once completed.
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Six things you might not know about Airbnb and its co-founder Joe Gebbia
Design News
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3 Mar 16
Airbnb's co-founder Joe Gebbia will be speaking at Design Indaba 2017. Here are some things you might not know about this peer-to-peer home-rental start up.
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Award-winning architecture student Alfie Hope imagines a city floating on bamboo
Design News
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3 Mar 16
Alfie Hope champions water-based urbanism with his proposal to grow floating land with bamboo.
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Teledisko: The 60s nightlife experience in a phone booth
Design News
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3 Mar 16
Teledisko is a phone booth upcycled into the world’s smallest nightclub.
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Candyfloss characters in comical GIFs with a feminist touch
Design News
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3 Mar 16
Inspired by Instagram artists, Swedish art director Sofia Hydman creates GIFs depicting chubby, confident girls.
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Saphon Energy creates new wind-harnessing technology
Design Frontiers
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3 Mar 16
This Tunisian startup didn’t reinvent the wind turbine; instead, they created a new technology.
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MFA’s #techstyle: Fashion that moves, interacts and adapts
Design Frontiers
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4 Mar 16
The Museum of Fine Arts’ #techstyle exhibition takes a look at where fashion design is headed thanks to its relationship with technology.
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The creative chef, Jasper Udink ten Cate releases his first cookbook
Design News
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4 Mar 16
The Creative Chef cookbook shows home cooks how to turn everyday meals into mind-blowing dining experiences.
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Wearable technology for the visually impaired
Design Frontiers
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4 Mar 16
Wearable technology from Cairo describes oncoming objects to its users
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Urban Farm Pod: A plant growing sphere in urban spaces
Design News
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4 Mar 16
Terreform ONE’s Plug-In-Ecology project brings vertical farming to urban spaces.
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Global artists recreate monsters thought up by children
Design News
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7 Mar 16
The Monster Project facilitates art with children by reimagining their monsters.
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A massive eco-village with a utopian take on sustainable living
Design News
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7 Mar 16
Agroecologist Amlankusum’s conceptual designs combines natural elements with controlled construction to create a 36-storey paradise.
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