Articles

Re-thinking South African education

Next Generation • 7 Jun 16

UCT Upstarts invites students to redesign the education system in South Africa. >
Personalised temperature control follows users around the building

Design Frontiers • 7 Jun 16

Using the Internet-of-Things (IoT) technology, design firm Carlo Ratti Associati created a personalised temperature bubble. >
The Refugee Challenge: Six innovative ways to house and educate asylum seekers

Design News • 6 Jun 16

Today’s refugee crisis has left millions without a home or education. Here are some solutions. >
From 2D to 3D and back again

Design News • 6 Jun 16

Jongha Choi’s 2D designs can be plucked straight off the wall. >
Artist Leigh Le Roux looks to Johannesburg for inspiration

Design News • 6 Jun 16

Local graphic design artist Leigh Le Roux visually represents the city and its people. >
An algae-powered city for the world’s newest country

Design News • 6 Jun 16

RAW-NYC wins competition to design an entire city from scratch for the recently founded nation of Liberland. >
MIT Lab’s 3D-printed responsive fur

Design News • 3 Jun 16

MIT researchers explore the numerous ways to use their new hairy textile, Cillia. >
High school students design snap-together homeless shelter

Design News • 3 Jun 16

HUT is a micro-shelter designed as a low-cost, easy-to-assemble solution to homelessness. >
Not Yet Decided: A social experiment in superposition

Next Generation • 3 Jun 16

A group of young Lithuanian architects are proposing a social project based on Schrödinger's cat, the thought experiment. >
A future where products are grown straight out of our skin

Design Frontiers • 3 Jun 16

Designer Amy Congdon imagines a world where biotechnology has changed the way textiles are made. >
Ending world hunger is a matter of logistics

Design News • 3 Jun 16

Transfernation is an online platform that aims to tackle hunger by redistributing food waste. >
Free Wi-Fi in exchange for keeping the air clean

Design News • 2 Jun 16

Amsterdam-based startup TreeWiFi designs birdhouses that offer free internet when the air quality improves. >
Soofa: NYC’s solar-powered benches

Design News • 2 Jun 16

The Soofa group is spreading technology with their solar-powered benches. >
Photo Series: Documenting “The Other Africa”

Design News • 2 Jun 16

Social documentary photographer Lou Jones has spent the last few years documenting the new Africa, “The Other Africa.” >
BooToo: locally designed educational toys

Product Spotlight • 2 Jun 16

South African entrepreneur Daniel Jillings, creates aesthetically pleasing children’s toys. >
How to use consumerism to raise awareness for climate change

Design News • 1 Jun 16

London-based design studio Something & Son ran a pop-up shop selling elegant jewellery made of coal to question mindless consumption at the cost of the earth. >
Graphite: a modular honeycomb-shaped shelving system

Product Spotlight • 1 Jun 16

A storage system designed to be sturdy and fully customisable. >
Social enterprise designs Kenyan running shoe

Design News • 1 Jun 16

Enda is a running shoe inspired by Kenya’s legacy of running champions >
Welcome Shelter: Charlie Redman’s kinetic dining experience

Next Generation • 1 Jun 16

Architecture student Charlie Redman designed an outdoor structure that functions in any weather. >
Someone Somewhere is about empowerment through fashion

Design News • 1 Jun 16

Someone Somewhere combines traditional handcrafts with contemporary products to empower Mexican artisans. >
L CARD: A lung cancer “breathalyzer”

Design Frontiers • 31 May 16

The tiny device can detect whether or not a patient has lung cancer. >
Photographer presents a bird’s-eye view of inequality in Cape Town

Design News • 31 May 16

Johnny Miller’s photographic series shows that Apartheid spatial planning is still present in South Africa’s Mother City. >
Photographer Martha Tadesse captures her Ethiopian truth

Design News • 30 May 16

Ethiopian photographer Martha Tadesse hopes to share images of her travels through Addis Ababa with the world. >
Cheap, effective, mosquito killing soap

Design Frontiers • 30 May 16

Two African innovators have created a cheap soap to combat Malaria in the developing world. >
Luzinterruptus illuminates social issues using light and photography

Design News • 30 May 16

The anonymous collective Luzinterruptus is creating illuminating installations with light. >
Margrethe Odgaard’s work is full of colour, creativity and compassion

Design News • 30 May 16

Margrethe Odgaard is celebrated for her contributions to Nordic art and design. >
Innovative filter destroys pollutants in the air

Design News • 30 May 16

The Molekule air filter uses nano-technology and light to destroy air pollutants at a molecular level. >
Robotic arms and a bit of lycra can change the way concrete is used in design

Design News • 30 May 16

Designers develop a method of fabric-casting concrete into dynamic architectural forms >
Nigerian photographer's romantic visions of Lagos

Design News • 27 May 16

Photographer re-envisions his hometown using light and photographic installations. >
China's futuristic bus allows cars to pass underneath its carriages

Design News • 27 May 16

The Transit Explore Bus was designed to tackle extreme traffic congestion and pollution in China. >

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