Articles

Jua Kali interprets the ingenuity of Nairobi's informal sector

Q&A • 7 Mar 16

Kenyan artist Tahir Carl Karmali's photomontage series deconstructs hacker culture in Kenya. >
Hello Tractor brings African farmers equipment on demand

Design News • 7 Mar 16

Nigerian technology startup Hello Tractor is an on-demand farming machinery service for farmers in rural Africa. >
High-tech repository for the dead

Design Frontiers • 7 Mar 16

Ruri Den is an alternative to burial sites for space-starved cities like Tokyo >
A massive eco-village with a utopian take on sustainable living

Design News • 7 Mar 16

Agroecologist Amlankusum’s conceptual designs combines natural elements with controlled construction to create a 36-storey paradise. >
Global artists recreate monsters thought up by children

Design News • 7 Mar 16

The Monster Project facilitates art with children by reimagining their monsters. >
The creative chef, Jasper Udink ten Cate releases his first cookbook

Design News • 4 Mar 16

The Creative Chef cookbook shows home cooks how to turn everyday meals into mind-blowing dining experiences. >
Urban Farm Pod: A plant growing sphere in urban spaces

Design News • 4 Mar 16

Terreform ONE’s Plug-In-Ecology project brings vertical farming to urban spaces. >
Wearable technology for the visually impaired

Design Frontiers • 4 Mar 16

Wearable technology from Cairo describes oncoming objects to its users >
MFA’s #techstyle: Fashion that moves, interacts and adapts

Design Frontiers • 4 Mar 16

The Museum of Fine Arts’ #techstyle exhibition takes a look at where fashion design is headed thanks to its relationship with technology. >
Saphon Energy creates new wind-harnessing technology

Design Frontiers • 3 Mar 16

This Tunisian startup didn’t reinvent the wind turbine; instead, they created a new technology. >
Teledisko: The 60s nightlife experience in a phone booth

Design News • 3 Mar 16

Teledisko is a phone booth upcycled into the world’s smallest nightclub. >
Candyfloss characters in comical GIFs with a feminist touch

Design News • 3 Mar 16

Inspired by Instagram artists, Swedish art director Sofia Hydman creates GIFs depicting chubby, confident girls. >
Award-winning architecture student Alfie Hope imagines a city floating on bamboo

Design News • 3 Mar 16

Alfie Hope champions water-based urbanism with his proposal to grow floating land with bamboo. >
Six things you might not know about Airbnb and its co-founder Joe Gebbia

Design News • 3 Mar 16

Airbnb's co-founder Joe Gebbia will be speaking at Design Indaba 2017. Here are some things you might not know about this peer-to-peer home-rental start up. >
A garden that stretches across Africa

Design Frontiers • 3 Mar 16

The Great Green Wall of Africa will be the biggest man-made marvel in the world once completed. >
Zami Life: A stool for smart sitting in an age of inactivity

Design News • 3 Mar 16

The Zami smart stool promotes healthy living through innovative furniture design. >
Free community skatepark in Ethiopia

Design Frontiers • 2 Mar 16

A non-profit organisation is building skateparks in rural areas around the globe. >
Miniature art scenes inspired by film

Design Frontiers • 2 Mar 16

This artist forgets about time when she creates her painstakingly detailed dioramas. >
A moss wall that creates clean, green energy

Next Generation • 2 Mar 16

Graduate Elena Mitrofanova has designed a modular system that generates electricity from moss. >
Concept artist merges Maasai warriors with sci-fi tech

Design News • 2 Mar 16

Rodrigo Galdino imagines what it would look like if traditional Maasai warriors integrated alien tech into their culture. >
NASA invites public to send art to space

Design News • 2 Mar 16

NASA’s upcoming mission to a near-Earth asteroid will take with it artworks submitted by explorers from around the world. >
Nursery Fields Forever imagines a preschool where kids learn how to farm

Design News • 2 Mar 16

Rome-based design team wins an architecture award for its new age urban farming school for children. >
Agriculture meets architecture in France's urban farm tower

Design News • 1 Mar 16

Built like a staircase, ABF-lab's urban farming structure aims to raise awareness and encourage better living and social responsibility. >
Jaun van Wyk: Bringing the art back into architecture

Design Frontiers • 1 Mar 16

Cape Town based architect Jaun van Wyk plans to restore architecture to an art form. >
3D printed braille maps for navigating interiors

Design News • 1 Mar 16

Rutgers University researchers hope their new braille maps will become a new standard feature in all public spaces. >
Phone booth gets a green makeover

Design News • 1 Mar 16

Artist transforms a London phone booth into a botanical box to call for the greening up of city spaces. >
MIT researchers reveal world's thinnest solar cell

Design Frontiers • 1 Mar 16

A team at MIT have created an ultra-thin solar cell that could open up new applications for solar power in the long term. >
Tech groups rally in support of migrants

Design Frontiers • 29 Feb 16

Techfugees is a global movement pooling together their resources and skill to aid refugees. >
Kiro'o Games to release first African-inspired action-RPG

Design News • 29 Feb 16

Cameroonian startup Kiro'o Games is set to release the first PC game inspired by African mythology. >
Empowering women with skills and business acumen

Product Spotlight • 29 Feb 16

WomenWeave is a charitable trust helping artisan weavers trade on the global Market. >

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