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MIT Lab’s 3D-printed responsive fur
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Interaction Design
MIT researchers explore the numerous ways to use their new hairy textile, Cillia.
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3 Jun 16
High school students design snap-together homeless shelter
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Architecture & Interiors
HUT is a micro-shelter designed as a low-cost, easy-to-assemble solution to homelessness.
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3 Jun 16
Ending world hunger is a matter of logistics
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Creative Economy
Transfernation is an online platform that aims to tackle hunger by redistributing food waste.
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3 Jun 16
Free Wi-Fi in exchange for keeping the air clean
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Product Design
Amsterdam-based startup TreeWiFi designs birdhouses that offer free internet when the air quality improves.
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2 Jun 16
Soofa: NYC’s solar-powered benches
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Urban & Landscape Design
The Soofa group is spreading technology with their solar-powered benches.
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2 Jun 16
Photo Series: Documenting “The Other Africa”
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African Design
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Social documentary photographer Lou Jones has spent the last few years documenting the new Africa, “The Other Africa.”
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2 Jun 16
How to use consumerism to raise awareness for climate change
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Fashion & Jewellery Design
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.
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1 Jun 16
Social enterprise designs Kenyan running shoe
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Enda is a running shoe inspired by Kenya’s legacy of running champions
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1 Jun 16
Someone Somewhere is about empowerment through fashion
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Fashion & Jewellery Design
Someone Somewhere combines traditional handcrafts with contemporary products to empower Mexican artisans.
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1 Jun 16
Photographer presents a bird’s-eye view of inequality in Cape Town
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Design Activism
Johnny Miller’s photographic series shows that Apartheid spatial planning is still present in South Africa’s Mother City.
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31 May 16
Photographer Martha Tadesse captures her Ethiopian truth
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African Design
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Ethiopian photographer Martha Tadesse hopes to share images of her travels through Addis Ababa with the world.
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30 May 16
Luzinterruptus illuminates social issues using light and photography
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Interaction Design
The anonymous collective Luzinterruptus is creating illuminating installations with light.
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30 May 16
Margrethe Odgaard’s work is full of colour, creativity and compassion
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Craft
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Fashion & Jewellery Design
Margrethe Odgaard is celebrated for her contributions to Nordic art and design.
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30 May 16
Innovative filter destroys pollutants in the air
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Design Thinking
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Product Design
The Molekule air filter uses nano-technology and light to destroy air pollutants at a molecular level.
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30 May 16
Robotic arms and a bit of lycra can change the way concrete is used in design
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Industrial Design
Designers develop a method of fabric-casting concrete into dynamic architectural forms
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30 May 16
Nigerian photographer's romantic visions of Lagos
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African Design
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Photographer re-envisions his hometown using light and photographic installations.
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27 May 16
China's futuristic bus allows cars to pass underneath its carriages
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Urban & Landscape Design
The Transit Explore Bus was designed to tackle extreme traffic congestion and pollution in China.
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27 May 16
Gamer gets a high-tech bionic limb
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Interaction Design
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Product Design
Packed with gadgets, James Young’s robotic prosthesis also houses a drone.
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27 May 16
ReGen Village: an under-construction utopia of sustainable living
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Architecture & Interiors
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Design Activism
Self-sustaining, off-grid village to be built in the Netherlands offers a look at the future of eco-friendly living.
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27 May 16
Ousmane Mbaye turns discarded metals into sculptural furniture
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African Design
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Craft
Digging through the landfills of Dakar, Ousmane Mbaye sees design materials where others see trash.
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26 May 16
Flood House explores a new typology of responsive architecture
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Architecture & Interiors
Matthew Butcher’s Flood House looks at how future dwellings should be adapted to co-exist with their native environments.
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26 May 16
Kristin-Lee Moolman’s subversive photography challenges gender and the African aesthetic
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African Design
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Art & Photography
South African photographer Kristin-Lee Moolman creates a separate reality through her work.
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26 May 16
School on Wheels brings education to impoverished children
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Design Activism
A bus remodelled to become a mobile classroom for children with no access to school facilities in Mumbai.
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25 May 16
Green light: An artistic workshop on the refugee crisis in Europe
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Product Design
The project helps refugees escaping persecution and war find acceptance and community.
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25 May 16
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