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The FoodShare Truck: Fresh produce at affordable prices
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Design Activism
The travelling food market offers fresh produce at cheaper prices to locals that otherwise can’t access or afford it.
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11 May 16
Photographer documents the unseen life of Senegal’s talibes
Design News
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Art & Photography
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Design Activism
Photojournalist Mario Cruz’s photobook explores the harsh lives of Senegal’s modern child slaves.
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11 May 16
Revitalising Detroit by giving homes to writers
Design News
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Design Activism
Write A House is a non-profit that provides vocational training to Detroit locals while trying to stabilise a city in decline.
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11 May 16
Transforming London’s Trafalgar Square into a crazy golf course
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Art & Photography
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Interaction Design
Designed by the late Zaha Hadid, the undulating course will be futuristic, functional, fun and free for the public.
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10 May 16
Sundial installation 3D-printed with sheets of plastic
Design News
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Urban & Landscape Design
Contemporary sundial uses solar data to change shape according to the natural trajectory of the sun.
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10 May 16
New African Photography Exhibition hosted in New York
Next Generation
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African Design
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Art & Photography
African artists and photographers are getting some serious attention and exposure overseas. Here's a look at one current exhibition in New York.
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10 May 16
Recent innovations in nanowire technology could lead to self-cooling clothing
Design News
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Information Design
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Product Design
A more flexible, environmentally sound, safer nanowire array has the potential to revolutionise occupations like fire fighting.
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10 May 16
Tanzanian street kids tell their stories through photography
Design News
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African Design
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Art & Photography
By providing Tanzanian street kids with cameras and training, Club Sanaa has them tell their own stories.
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10 May 16
Ebb: Changing the colour of your clothes using electricity
Design Frontiers
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Fashion & Jewellery Design
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Interaction Design
Researchers have created textiles that are able to slowly change colour, revealing a path to interactive garments.
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10 May 16
Interactive technology could change the way we play ping-pong
Design News
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Interaction Design
German designer Thomas Mayer helps players improve their ping-pong game with realtime performance visuals.
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9 May 16
Immersive online museum campaigns for social and environmental issues
Design Frontiers
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Art & Photography
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Design Activism
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Interaction Design
Using contemporary art, Art Works For Change inspires active engagement around environmental issues.
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9 May 16
Play Sea Hero Quest and help scientists understand dementia
Design News
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Graphic Design & Illustration
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Information Design
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Interaction Design
Scientists and game developers have teamed up to create a game that contributes to Alzheimer’s research.
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9 May 16
Shared Studios launches a new Portal to Rwanda
Design Frontiers
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Information Design
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Interaction Design
The project designs futuristic portals, allowing users to reach out across the globe and communicate with each other face-to-face.
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9 May 16
Green Product: Wirework takes a contemporary twist on traditional crafts
Design News
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African Design
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Craft
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Product Design
The South African self-help project uses recycled materials to create functional art.
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6 May 16
The world’s first 3D-printed wheelchair that can be customised on an app
Design News
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Product Design
Layer is soon to launch its new 3D-printed wheelchair, made to fit each individual’s body and disability.
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6 May 16
Manmade plant creates oxygen in space
Design Frontiers
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Design Thinking
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Product Design
The Silk Leaf needs only water and light to create oxygen in the harshest of environments.
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6 May 16
A parachute that turns into a shelter for refugees or disaster victims
Design News
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Product Design
Portugal-based STUDIOMUDA design a prefabricated shelter that can be easily deployed out of an airplane.
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6 May 16
New York rec centre combines gaming and exercise
Design News
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Design Thinking
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Interaction Design
Interactive and high-intensity, this circuit-based gym changes the experience of exercise.
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6 May 16
Chimera IoT: a Kenyan startup designing smart homes
Design News
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African Design
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Architecture & Interiors
The recently established company adapts Western technology to African specific conditions.
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5 May 16
A self-healing biomaterial is the closest yet to mimicking human muscle
Design News
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Design Thinking
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Product Design
New biomaterial possesses extreme stretchability, self-healing and endurance properties; all revolutionary in the development of artificial skin and muscle.
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5 May 16
Traffic lights designed for distracted walkers
Design News
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Urban & Landscape Design
The German city of Augsburg installs pavement lights to ensure the safety of pedestrians distracted by their phones.
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5 May 16
Six documentaries that seek to drive change
Design News
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African Design
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Film & Animation
Six documentary films will seek to make their mark at Good Pitch, an initiative that brings social change through cinematic arts.
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5 May 16
Cricket Shelter: A modular way to farm food
Design News
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Architecture & Interiors
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Food Design
Terreform ONE’s latest contribution to hybrid architecture is a modular urban insect farm that promises to be a sustainable food hub.
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5 May 16
Green Product: Breathing Skins adapts to the environment
Design Frontiers
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Architecture & Interiors
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Product Design
A showroom in Germany allows users to experience technology that adapts internal conditions to its external environment.
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4 May 16
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