May 2016 Archive

Shared Studios launches a new Portal to Rwanda

Design Frontiers • 9 May 16

The project designs futuristic portals, allowing users to reach out across the globe and communicate with each other face-to-face. >
Play Sea Hero Quest and help scientists understand dementia

Design News • 9 May 16

Scientists and game developers have teamed up to create a game that contributes to Alzheimer’s research. >
Immersive online museum campaigns for social and environmental issues

Design Frontiers • 9 May 16

Using contemporary art, Art Works For Change inspires active engagement around environmental issues. >
Ebb: Changing the colour of your clothes using electricity

Design Frontiers • 10 May 16

Researchers have created textiles that are able to slowly change colour, revealing a path to interactive garments. >
Tanzanian street kids tell their stories through photography

Design News • 10 May 16

By providing Tanzanian street kids with cameras and training, Club Sanaa has them tell their own stories. >
Recent innovations in nanowire technology could lead to self-cooling clothing

Design News • 10 May 16

A more flexible, environmentally sound, safer nanowire array has the potential to revolutionise occupations like fire fighting. >
New African Photography Exhibition hosted in New York

Next Generation • 10 May 16

African artists and photographers are getting some serious attention and exposure overseas. Here's a look at one current exhibition in New York. >
Sundial installation 3D-printed with sheets of plastic

Design News • 10 May 16

Contemporary sundial uses solar data to change shape according to the natural trajectory of the sun. >
Transforming London’s Trafalgar Square into a crazy golf course

Design News • 10 May 16

Designed by the late Zaha Hadid, the undulating course will be futuristic, functional, fun and free for the public. >
Revitalising Detroit by giving homes to writers

Design News • 11 May 16

Write A House is a non-profit that provides vocational training to Detroit locals while trying to stabilise a city in decline. >
Photographer documents the unseen life of Senegal’s talibes

Design News • 11 May 16

Photojournalist Mario Cruz’s photobook explores the harsh lives of Senegal’s modern child slaves. >
The FoodShare Truck: Fresh produce at affordable prices

Design News • 11 May 16

The travelling food market offers fresh produce at cheaper prices to locals that otherwise can’t access or afford it. >
Swawou School for Girls finally opens its doors to students in Sierra Leone

Design News • 11 May 16

Orkidstudio unveils its free-education school in eastern Sierra Leone after the Ebola outbreak put the project on hold. >
Treating mental illness with virtual reality

Design News • 11 May 16

An Oxford University study tested virtual simulation on sufferers of severe paranoia, with positive results. >
Three innovative solutions to water shortage in South Africa

Design Frontiers • 11 May 16

These three ideas were submitted to Hack4Water, an initiative aimed to help solve some of SAs water challenges. >
Snail shell shelter brings user closer to nature

Design News • 12 May 16

Helix is a micro-architecture structure that can shelter one nomadic individual. >
Artist’s mock machine guns are sculpted from old typewriters

Design News • 12 May 16

Denver-based Ravi Zupa brings gun violence to the fore in “Mightier Than”. >
Budapest-based brand NewFoldr champions cardboard electronics

Design News • 12 May 16

NewFoldr aims to create a recyclable electronics movement to challenge the global e-waste issue >
The Honey: Representations of blackness as power

Design News • 13 May 16

Rendani Nemakhavhani's dynamic photo series "The Honey" turns away from blackness as struggle. >
Portable surgical sterilisation suitcase

Design News • 13 May 16

Eniware is a new sterilisation system that aims to have a positive impact on health care in developing countries. >
Oded Ezer designs the Life/Death t-shirt

Product Spotlight • 13 May 16

Tel Aviv-based graphic design artist Oded Exer designed a t-shirt to help refugees. >
When life hands you elephant dung, make paper

Design Frontiers • 13 May 16

Kenyan entrepreneurs are protecting their environment by turning elephant dung into paper. >
Eliminate wrinkles by applying a ‘second skin’

Design Frontiers • 16 May 16

A new, “second skin” solution to wrinkles could also lead to more medical advancements. >
A farming and recreational space designed to bring a community together

Design News • 16 May 16

Bottle Seedling House is a multipurpose shelter that aims to improve the quality of life for a farming community affected by HIV/AIDS. >

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