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Combatting Algeria’s harsh weather conditions with houses made from plastic bottles
Design Frontiers
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1 Jun 17
These durable homes are safely housing the region’s refugee population.
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Airbnb is tapping into its network to help resettle refugees
Talks
• Duration: 00:33:20
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1 Jun 17
Co-Founder & CPO Joe Gebbia announces that over 16,000 Airbnb hosts have already signed up to host refugees for free.
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The striking interpretation of an age-old Senegalese legend
Design News
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2 Jun 17
Translating an old adage into striking visual art.
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Native Nation captures Mexico’s forgotten cultures
Design News
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2 Jun 17
Uncover the indigenous communities of Mexico with photographer Diego Huerta.
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Ads Imitating Life exhibit explores not-so-progressive media representation
Design News
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2 Jun 17
American artist Hank Willis Thomas takes a critical view of ‘Adland’ in this collection.
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Minutiae: The ‘anti-social’ app gives your more mundane moments meaning
Design Frontiers
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5 Jun 17
“YOU ARE NOT YOUR TIMELINE.”
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A photographer is building a photographic ark of animals before they go extinct
Design News
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5 Jun 17
National Geographic photographer Joel Sartore's project The Photo Ark currently holds photos of over 6500 distinct animal species.
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Is wearing jeans bad for the environment?
Design News
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5 Jun 17
According to researchers, the answer is a bit more complicated than that
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Atang Tshikare collaborated with Lesotho weavers to revive an old tradition
Design News
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6 Jun 17
Multidisciplinary artist and designer Atang Tshikare has gone from murals to furniture to exploring African mythology through weaving
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Haunting black and white images capture forced removals in Johannesburg
Design News
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6 Jun 17
Behind urban renewal is often the untold stories of poor families who are put out with nowhere else to go.
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A look inside the new island museum in Abu Dhabi
Design News
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6 Jun 17
Louvre Abu Dhabi combines breathtaking architecture that is at once futuristic yet informed by ancient Arabian practices.
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Make Care products give teens with butterfly skin back their independence
Design News
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8 Jun 17
The project won Best of the Best at the Chile Design, 2017 Design Biennial.
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LocoL provides community support through food
Design News
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8 Jun 17
Roy Choi’s revolutionary fast food joint is changing what it means to be a great restaurant.
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Wacom Creatives: A look into the experimental digital art of Miss Led
Design News
• Duration: 04:22
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9 Jun 17
“If you want something really badly, then you don’t feel like you’re making sacrifices.”
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This web-series tackles social justice through the eyes of a 9-year old girl
Design News
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9 Jun 17
Little Apple takes on racism, sexism and gentrification in this sci-fi drama.
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Anti-Trump patrons put their money where their politics are
Design News
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9 Jun 17
This New York bar donates 100 per cent of their profit to causes that are fighting Trump
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From harvesting fungi from the body to hormone infused cocktails, are these the products of the future?
Design Frontiers
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12 Jun 17
Beirut Design Week's Speculative Needs exhibition is not as far-fetched as one might think.
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Photographer Imraan Christian teams up with Faith XLVII
Design News
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12 Jun 17
South African artists Imraan Christian and Faith XLVII deconstruct a pivotal moment in the country’s 2015 student uprising.
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An art invention to encourage more silence in our cities
Design Frontiers
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13 Jun 17
The Silent Room invites people to come in, for up to 30 minutes and “not perform or achieve anything, but just to be”.
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Pichulik looks to Japan for inspiration behind her latest range
Design News
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14 Jun 17
Flower arrangements created in the Japanese art of Ikebana make striking combo next to her latest range
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Self-financing modular homes for the rural poor
Design News
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14 Jun 17
Globally, access to adequate housing remains a huge problem that governments battle to solve, billionBricks provides a self-financing solution
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15 Southern African artists tell us what it's like to be Young Now
Design News
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15 Jun 17
Johannesburg’s Hazard Gallery is hosting a number of prolific, young African artists in their latest exhibition.
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Dutch designers use human waste to make electricity
Design News
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15 Jun 17
The Compost Kliko Toilet could lead to people getting away from flushing potential down the toilet
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On making theatre specifically for kids below the age of 2
Video Interviews
• Duration: 00:03:33
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16 Jun 17
Children at such an early age can still decide to stop paying attention, which is the harshest criticism of all
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