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Chimera IoT: a Kenyan startup designing smart homes
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
Bicycle system designed for heavy duty, urban cargo delivery
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Product Design
Carla Cargo is a zero-emission and more agile alternative to the traditional delivery van.
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4 May 16
Earthquake-resistant orphanage in Haiti is the start of a greater social initiative
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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.
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4 May 16
The Muko furniture series is designed with kids in mind
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African Design
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Craft
Today’s kids spend more and more time seated. These chairs are designed to ensure their comfort.
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4 May 16
All Love Is Equal takes a fairytale approach to LGBTIQ relationships
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Art & Photography
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Design Activism
All love is iconic and all love should be viewed as a fairytale, says LGBTIQ photographer Braden Summers.
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3 May 16
Slut-shaming: Changing minds through photography
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African Design
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Art & Photography
Local photographer’s campaign to stop slut-shaming looks at the pain of the victim.
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3 May 16
Khanya Njalo brings solar lighting to rural communities
Design Frontiers
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Design Activism
The project, initiated in rural KwaZulu-Natal, provides solar powered lighting solutions to rural communities.
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3 May 16
Green Product: Harvest Cart is a solution to backyard farming
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Product Design
The small-scale harvesting cart makes collecting produce easier.
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3 May 16
Green Product: Citycropps virtually helps create a functional garden
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Design Activism
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Information Design
Citycropps is an urban agricultural project that virtually assists app users as they cultivate their own organic gardens.
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3 May 16
Humanoid robot recovers sunken treasure
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Design Thinking
OceanOne is Stanford’s mermaid-like robot that can stand in for a human driver.
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3 May 16
Backpacks made from blankets
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African Design
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Design Activism
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Product Design
Sibusiso Mokhachane makes backpacks from blankets to celebrate his heritage and help the world unlearn African stereotypes.
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2 May 16
Conceptual fashion by Bokang Lehabe
Design Frontiers
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Fashion & Jewellery Design
Bokang Lehabe, one of Design Indaba Emerging Creative 2016, creates award winning, conceptual fashion.
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2 May 16
EVOLVE: Egypt’s local artists interpret Phobia
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Art & Photography
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Graphic Design & Illustration
Cairo-based art project, EVOLVE calls local artists together to contemplate and share their digital interpretations of phobia.
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2 May 16
Child’s Cup Full: Toys and accessories handmade by refugees
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Craft
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Creative Economy
Non-profit social enterprise Child’s Cup Full encourages women in the West Bank to be makers.
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2 May 16
Swale: the floating food forest
Design Frontiers
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Design Activism
The Brooklyn-based project is a self-sustaining ecosystem, created to redesign our relationship with food.
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29 Apr 16
BeSeens: LED imbedded, hand-signalling cycling gloves
Product Spotlight
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Product Design
BeSeens use motion detection and LED lighting to make indicating safer for cyclists.
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29 Apr 16
Floating solar panels take to the seas
Design News
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Industrial Design
Heliofloat solar farm is designed to generate clean energy out at sea and preserve water in arid regions.
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29 Apr 16
Skyscraper made out of wooden numbers
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Architecture & Interiors
Anders Berensson Architects is set to transform an old parking lot in Stockholm into a multi-use wooden skyscraper.
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29 Apr 16
Wikkelhouse: A house made of 24 layers of cardboard
Design Frontiers
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Architecture & Interiors
A marvel of sustainable design, Wikkelhouse is fully customisable and environmentally friendly.
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29 Apr 16
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