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Yuwote Charvet: The typeface that infuses African symbols with geometry
Next Generation
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28 Oct 16
Kevin Karanja explores African writing systems & 3D design.
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Student thesis initiates award-winning community food project
Next Generation
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27 Oct 16
Blank Plate: The culinary design curriculum helping to navigate life in a ‘food desert’.
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Student invents ambulance drone for speedy medical assistance
Next Generation
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20 Oct 16
This engineering graduate is using drone tech as a force for good.
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Intimate Strangers: Izinja zempilo
Next Generation
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18 Oct 16
The third part of Intimate Strangers by South African Puleng Mogale is about brotherhood and friendship. Ride or die, friends to the end.
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The Readi box provides communication in catastrophic situations
Next Generation
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18 Oct 16
Should all else fail, this speaker unit helps you to keep in touch during a disaster.
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US student designs prosthetic hand-hack to aid one-handed violin player
Next Generation
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18 Oct 16
3D printed prosthetic helps this aspiring violinist reach for her dream.
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Nigerian graduate designs gas-powered pressing iron
Next Generation
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12 Oct 16
The domestic creation of Ayokunle Adeniran tackles the difficulty of power outages.
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Food production in a world without meat
Next Generation
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5 Oct 16
The rate at which we eat meat is not sustainable. A project by Central Saint Martins graduate Hanan Alkouh looks to replace pork with seaweed.
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Fodder: the pop up dining experience that turns eating into an agricultural act
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3 Oct 16
Can we connect with the animals we consume by being fed their feed?
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