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The "A" speaker: A solution to noise pollution

Creative Work • 17 Mar 16

The "A" speaker is like listening to headphones without the headphones. >
Pigeon Air Patrol reports London’s air quality to tweeters

Creative Work • 17 Mar 16

Plume Labs sends a fleet of racing pigeons into the sky to monitor London’s pollution index. >
The Dutch e-bike powered by solar energy

Creative Work • 17 Mar 16

The Dutch Solar Bike's sleek design is thanks to specially designed solar panels. >
Bicycle path doubles as solar panel

Creative Work • 17 Mar 16

Solar panels fitted into bike path generate more electricity than expected. >
A movement to clean-up and beautify the city of Bhopal

Creative Work • 17 Mar 16

Bhopal I-Clean Team is a spot-fixing programme started by a group of locals who are determined to tidy up their city. >
Kampala's street children rehabilitated through music and art

Creative Work • 17 Mar 16

M-Lisada is an orphanage in Uganda that empowers Kampala's street children through art. >
A tiny, smart patch could replace insulin shots for diabetes sufferers

Creative Work • 16 Mar 16

A painless patch could mean that millions of diabetes sufferers no longer have to inject themselves to correct their insulin levels. >
Teta Isibo: Rwandan-made products that mix modernity and tradition

Interviews • Duration: 00:03:02 • 16 Mar 16

With her brand Inzuki Designs, Teta Isibo is a Rwandan entrepreneur helping to take artisanal Rwanda-made products to the modern market. >
Clever cooking hacks to combat wasteful food habits

Creative Work • 16 Mar 16

SpoonLed is a video and event series that shows millennials how to make the most out of their food waste. >
Ugandan community hall crafted out of basic materials

Creative Work • 16 Mar 16

Natural light and locally-sourced materials bring the late Ross Langdon’s design to life. >
An innovative way to extinguish a fire

Creative Work • 16 Mar 16

The Elide Fire Extinguishing Ball uses a chemical blast to control unexpected fires. >
Fashion house Mille Collines celebrates all things Africa

Creative Work • 15 Mar 16

The recent Mille Collines show at AFI MBFW Joburg takes an elegant and contemporary look at ubiquitous African curios. >
Interactive installations turn Toronto's beaches into winter destinations

Creative Work • 15 Mar 16

Toronto’s beach goers are encouraged to hit the seaside throughout the year. >
Auto-focus specs adapts lenses to near and farsighted vision

Creative Work • 15 Mar 16

Deep Optics’ omnifocals automatically adjust focus, providing the wearer with improved vision. >
Newly discovered enzyme could change the way we recycle plastic

Creative Work • 15 Mar 16

Kyoto University researchers are able to cultivate an enzyme that can break down plastic into harmless chemicals. >
Township: Photographs depicting life after South African apartheid

Creative Work • 15 Mar 16

Anne Rearick’s work documents the lives of people faced with economic hardship, poverty and racism. >
Tiny surgical tools inspired by origami

Creative Work • 15 Mar 16

Researchers were able to do away with bulky surgical parts and rely instead on the principles of origami. >
Electronic wastelands raise questions about sustainable design

Creative Work • 14 Mar 16

Photo exhibition E-waste Tsunami calls on designers to think up better ways to deal with e-waste. >
Counterspace: Architects investigate Johannesburg’s abandoned mine dumps

Interviews • Duration: 00:03:00 • 14 Mar 16

Collaborative studio, Counterspace investigates the meaning of lost and found spaces in South Africa’s city of gold. >
A pictorial narrative explores the estranged lives of adults

Creative Work • 14 Mar 16

A children’s book for adults, The Well of Being explores life through narrative and illustration. >
US digital artist talks representation of minorities in graphic design

Creative Work • 14 Mar 16

Jeff Manning’s work is inspired by music and informed by the need to represent minorities in graphic design. >
EduKick designs football games that teach slum kids maths

Creative Work • 14 Mar 16

Community project gets creative with soccer to increase children’s literacy in India. >
Asmara: Unlikely home to Modernist Architecture

Creative Work • 11 Mar 16

Asmara, a city in Eritrea in North East Africa, is an unlikely treasure trove of standing modernist architecture. >
Saving a font from extinction

Creative Work • 11 Mar 16

Reviving a forgotten font designed by Alvin Lustig, an iconic, contemporary American graphic designer. >

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