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A new self-sufficient, post-COVID city

Design News • 5 Nov 20

Set to live in China’s Xiong’ and in a post coronavirus pandemic - the new city will be a place where people are able to produce a new living and create a new t >
The Theory of Everything

Design Frontiers • 2 Nov 20

INCLUSIVITY - NOT A BUZZWORD, AN IMPERATIVE! >
With great design comes great responsibility: antenna 2020 looks to the future

Design News • 2 Nov 20

10 design graduates from the world’s leading design schools took to the antenna 2020 virtual stage as part of Dutch Design Week. >
Flowing Garments reimagines textile waste as a building material in Bangladesh

Design News • 26 Oct 20

Landscape designer Fengjiao Ge looks into how to recycle textiles to save the tonnes of waste that goes from our wardrobes to the landfill in her thesis proje >
Canadian industrial designer creates tetrapods that mimic mangroves and protect coastlines from erosion

Design News • 26 Oct 20

Industrial designer Xavier Ouellet has developed a system of floating tetrapods that protects coastline from erosion. >
Mimica Touch is a tactile label that combats food waste by providing accurate feedback on when food is spoiling

Design News • 23 Oct 20

London-based industrial designer Solveiga Pakštaitė is working hard to combat the massive issue of food waste. >
How to capture the smell of Nairobi’s slums in a rose-scented perfume

Design Frontiers • 23 Oct 20

Artist, designer and writer Coltrane McDowell is interested in telling stories. >
Danielle Begnaud looks at how to involve children in the process of designing toys

Design Frontiers • 23 Oct 20

Her project Brain Bridges explores how toy design might change when children are considered partners in the design process, instead of just end users. >
How surgical robots are assisting with surgery

Design News • 22 Oct 20

A collaboration between Wyss Associate Faculty member Robert Woodand and Robotics engineer Hiroyuki Suzuki. >
ASMR: The new wave of sound therapy

Design News • 22 Oct 20

Here we discover the sensation of ASMR. >
Healing Health Cafe's

Design News • 22 Oct 20

Pop-in and rest pit-stops are urban sanctuaries for city slickers. >
The new digital health clinic for women

Design News • 22 Oct 20

"We’ll deliver your medication quickly and discreetly to your front door. You’ll open your treatment in the comfort of your own home." >
The virtual community for mental health and care in a game form

Design News • 22 Oct 20

Created by designer-researcher Bianca Carague, Bump Galaxy is a virtual community for mental health and care in a game world prototyped on Minecraft. >
The mind-blowingNeuralink

Design Frontiers • 22 Oct 20

The first neural implant that will let you control a computer or mobile device anywhere you go. >
Meet the first smart case that records your birth control pill intake to keep you on track

Design Frontiers • 22 Oct 20

“Up to 80% of women on the pill miss at least one per month, so we designed a smart system that tracks the pill and sends reminders until it’s taken.” >
The S.A.D. SUN ALLERGY DIARIES

Design News • 22 Oct 20

SiiGii designs concept-driven body extensions >
How the CRISPR gene-editing tool became a scientific breakthrough

Design News • 22 Oct 20

Illustrating how to edit genes - Emmanuelle Charpentier and Jennifer Doudna are this year’s Nobel Laureates for Chemistry >
South African architecture student looks at how to reimagine dangerous alleyways in a Johannesburg suburb as pedestrian streets

Design News • 22 Oct 20

Joshil Naran's Honours project is named “in-between, back-to-back & front-to-front”. >
Universal typeface Braille Neue builds new connections between the sighted and visually impaired

Design News • 20 Oct 20

Designer Kosuke Takahashi has created a font that enables visually impaired and sighted people to read from the same page and connect with each other. >
Plus Minus 25: Melting curtains that could regulate room temperature

Design Frontiers • 20 Oct 20

Anna Koppmann and Esmée Willemsen are working with old technologies to create a brand-new heating and cooling system for homes. >
Maternity care project Birth Reborn looks to support black mothers in America

Design Frontiers • 18 Oct 20

Design graduate, Victoria Ayo focused her final project Birth Reborn on creating better maternity care for black mothers in America. >
How to treat the HIV epidemic: RCA graduate Ricky Stoch addresses treatment adherence

Design News • 18 Oct 20

Royal College of Art graduate Ricky Stoch created a system called FebriSol that aims to solve the problem of treatment adherence. >
#antenna2020 Interview: Ricky stoch

Design News • 17 Oct 20

"I don't distinguish between my design ethics and personal ethics, I just try my best to act with integrity." >
antenna 2020: The young, the curious, the brave

Design News • 17 Oct 20

Initiated by Design Indaba and Dutch Design Week, antenna takes the pulse of the new design. >
A playground built to scale for children

Design News • 15 Oct 20

Studio Ossidiana realized Horismos in tinted concrete with different finishes, adding a tactile element to this labyrinth-like structure. >
A new perspective of storytelling for children

Design News • 15 Oct 20

The project was nominated for a Kids Design Award 2020. >
Kid-friendly electronics kit

Design News • 15 Oct 20

Founded by French designer Matthieu Muller, Studio Fantasio’s has created a kid-friendly electronics kit. >
The new inclusive LEGO experience

Design News • 15 Oct 20

Through teamwork they created audio and braille building instructions which now gives those with disabilities the ability to enjoy the LEGO creative play experi >
ANOHA: The story of Noah from the Torah with interactive exhibits

Design News • 15 Oct 20

Interactive exhibits and a series of animals formed from recycled materials, constitute the inhabitants of this modern ark. >
Foster + Partners launched #architecturefromhome in lockdown to help educate kids.

Design News • 14 Oct 20

#architecturefromhome challenges kids to think about their built environment. >

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