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. >
Counterspace: Investigating the strange in Johannesburg’s built environment

Q&A • 6 May 16

Counterspace Studio's recent investigation into the reappropriation of Johannesburg’s mine dumps led the group to discover how abandoned spaces are being used. >
Green Product: Wirework takes a contemporary twist on traditional crafts

Design News • 6 May 16

The South African self-help project uses recycled materials to create functional art. >
The world’s first 3D-printed wheelchair that can be customised on an app

Design News • 6 May 16

Layer is soon to launch its new 3D-printed wheelchair, made to fit each individual’s body and disability. >
Manmade plant creates oxygen in space

Design Frontiers • 6 May 16

The Silk Leaf needs only water and light to create oxygen in the harshest of environments. >
A parachute that turns into a shelter for refugees or disaster victims

Design News • 6 May 16

Portugal-based STUDIOMUDA design a prefabricated shelter that can be easily deployed out of an airplane. >
New York rec centre combines gaming and exercise

Design News • 6 May 16

Interactive and high-intensity, this circuit-based gym changes the experience of exercise. >
Chimera IoT: a Kenyan startup designing smart homes

Design News • 5 May 16

The recently established company adapts Western technology to African specific conditions. >
A self-healing biomaterial is the closest yet to mimicking human muscle

Design News • 5 May 16

New biomaterial possesses extreme stretchability, self-healing and endurance properties; all revolutionary in the development of artificial skin and muscle. >
Traffic lights designed for distracted walkers

Design News • 5 May 16

The German city of Augsburg installs pavement lights to ensure the safety of pedestrians distracted by their phones. >
Six documentaries that seek to drive change

Design News • 5 May 16

Six documentary films will seek to make their mark at Good Pitch, an initiative that brings social change through cinematic arts. >
Cricket Shelter: A modular way to farm food

Design News • 5 May 16

Terreform ONE’s latest contribution to hybrid architecture is a modular urban insect farm that promises to be a sustainable food hub. >
Green Product: Breathing Skins adapts to the environment

Design Frontiers • 4 May 16

A showroom in Germany allows users to experience technology that adapts internal conditions to its external environment. >
Bicycle system designed for heavy duty, urban cargo delivery

Design News • 4 May 16

Carla Cargo is a zero-emission and more agile alternative to the traditional delivery van. >
Earthquake-resistant orphanage in Haiti is the start of a greater social initiative

Design News • 4 May 16

Ti Kay Là was built to house, support and educate street children in Haiti who are living in extreme poverty and without shelter. >
The Muko furniture series is designed with kids in mind

Product Spotlight • 4 May 16

Today’s kids spend more and more time seated. These chairs are designed to ensure their comfort. >
All Love Is Equal takes a fairytale approach to LGBTIQ relationships

Design News • 3 May 16

All love is iconic and all love should be viewed as a fairytale, says LGBTIQ photographer Braden Summers. >
Slut-shaming: Changing minds through photography

Design News • 3 May 16

Local photographer’s campaign to stop slut-shaming looks at the pain of the victim. >
Khanya Njalo brings solar lighting to rural communities

Design Frontiers • 3 May 16

The project, initiated in rural KwaZulu-Natal, provides solar powered lighting solutions to rural communities. >
Green Product: Harvest Cart is a solution to backyard farming

Design News • 3 May 16

The small-scale harvesting cart makes collecting produce easier. >
Green Product: Citycropps virtually helps create a functional garden

Design News • 3 May 16

Citycropps is an urban agricultural project that virtually assists app users as they cultivate their own organic gardens. >
Humanoid robot recovers sunken treasure

Design Frontiers • 3 May 16

OceanOne is Stanford’s mermaid-like robot that can stand in for a human driver. >
Backpacks made from blankets

Product Spotlight • 2 May 16

Sibusiso Mokhachane makes backpacks from blankets to celebrate his heritage and help the world unlearn African stereotypes. >
Conceptual fashion by Bokang Lehabe

Design Frontiers • 2 May 16

Bokang Lehabe, one of Design Indaba Emerging Creative 2016, creates award winning, conceptual fashion. >

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