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Tanzanian street kids tell their stories through photography

Design News > African Design / Art & Photography

By providing Tanzanian street kids with cameras and training, Club Sanaa has them tell their own stories. >

10 May 16
Ebb: Changing the colour of your clothes using electricity

Design Frontiers > Fashion & Jewellery Design / Interaction Design

Researchers have created textiles that are able to slowly change colour, revealing a path to interactive garments. >

10 May 16
Interactive technology could change the way we play ping-pong

Design News > Interaction Design

German designer Thomas Mayer helps players improve their ping-pong game with realtime performance visuals. >

9 May 16
Immersive online museum campaigns for social and environmental issues

Design Frontiers > Art & Photography / Design Activism / Interaction Design

Using contemporary art, Art Works For Change inspires active engagement around environmental issues. >

9 May 16
Play Sea Hero Quest and help scientists understand dementia

Design News > Graphic Design & Illustration / Information Design / Interaction Design

Scientists and game developers have teamed up to create a game that contributes to Alzheimer’s research. >

9 May 16
Shared Studios launches a new Portal to Rwanda

Design Frontiers > Information Design / Interaction Design

The project designs futuristic portals, allowing users to reach out across the globe and communicate with each other face-to-face. >

9 May 16
Green Product: Wirework takes a contemporary twist on traditional crafts

Design News > African Design / Craft / Product Design

The South African self-help project uses recycled materials to create functional art. >

6 May 16
The world’s first 3D-printed wheelchair that can be customised on an app

Design News > Product Design

Layer is soon to launch its new 3D-printed wheelchair, made to fit each individual’s body and disability. >

6 May 16
Manmade plant creates oxygen in space

Design Frontiers > Design Thinking / Product Design

The Silk Leaf needs only water and light to create oxygen in the harshest of environments. >

6 May 16
A parachute that turns into a shelter for refugees or disaster victims

Design News > Product Design

Portugal-based STUDIOMUDA design a prefabricated shelter that can be easily deployed out of an airplane. >

6 May 16
New York rec centre combines gaming and exercise

Design News > Design Thinking / Interaction Design

Interactive and high-intensity, this circuit-based gym changes the experience of exercise. >

6 May 16
Chimera IoT: a Kenyan startup designing smart homes

Design News > African Design / Architecture & Interiors

The recently established company adapts Western technology to African specific conditions. >

5 May 16
A self-healing biomaterial is the closest yet to mimicking human muscle

Design News > Design Thinking / Product Design

New biomaterial possesses extreme stretchability, self-healing and endurance properties; all revolutionary in the development of artificial skin and muscle. >

5 May 16
Traffic lights designed for distracted walkers

Design News > Urban & Landscape Design

The German city of Augsburg installs pavement lights to ensure the safety of pedestrians distracted by their phones. >

5 May 16
Six documentaries that seek to drive change

Design News > African Design / Film & Animation

Six documentary films will seek to make their mark at Good Pitch, an initiative that brings social change through cinematic arts. >

5 May 16
Cricket Shelter: A modular way to farm food

Design News > Architecture & Interiors / Food Design

Terreform ONE’s latest contribution to hybrid architecture is a modular urban insect farm that promises to be a sustainable food hub. >

5 May 16
Green Product: Breathing Skins adapts to the environment

Design Frontiers > Architecture & Interiors / Product Design

A showroom in Germany allows users to experience technology that adapts internal conditions to its external environment. >

4 May 16
Bicycle system designed for heavy duty, urban cargo delivery

Design News > Product Design

Carla Cargo is a zero-emission and more agile alternative to the traditional delivery van. >

4 May 16
Earthquake-resistant orphanage in Haiti is the start of a greater social initiative

Design News > Architecture & Interiors

Ti Kay Là was built to house, support and educate street children in Haiti who are living in extreme poverty and without shelter. >

4 May 16
The Muko furniture series is designed with kids in mind

Product Spotlight > African Design / Craft

Today’s kids spend more and more time seated. These chairs are designed to ensure their comfort. >

4 May 16
All Love Is Equal takes a fairytale approach to LGBTIQ relationships

Design News > Art & Photography / Design Activism

All love is iconic and all love should be viewed as a fairytale, says LGBTIQ photographer Braden Summers. >

3 May 16
Slut-shaming: Changing minds through photography

Design News > African Design / Art & Photography

Local photographer’s campaign to stop slut-shaming looks at the pain of the victim. >

3 May 16
Khanya Njalo brings solar lighting to rural communities

Design Frontiers > Design Activism

The project, initiated in rural KwaZulu-Natal, provides solar powered lighting solutions to rural communities. >

3 May 16
Green Product: Harvest Cart is a solution to backyard farming

Design News > Product Design

The small-scale harvesting cart makes collecting produce easier. >

3 May 16

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