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Electric-assisted handcycle prototype proposed as low-cost wheelchair in Bangladesh
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Product Design
Researchers design a solar-powered vehicle as a possible upgrade of the widespread manual wheelchair.
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18 Mar 16
Turning cemeteries into forests
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Industrial Design
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Product Design
The new Bios Urn and tree incubator has created a way to commemorate the dead by planting a tree.
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18 Mar 16
The "A" speaker: A solution to noise pollution
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Music & Sound Design
The "A" speaker is like listening to headphones without the headphones.
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17 Mar 16
Pigeon Air Patrol reports London’s air quality to tweeters
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Design Activism
Plume Labs sends a fleet of racing pigeons into the sky to monitor London’s pollution index.
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17 Mar 16
Bicycle path doubles as solar panel
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Creative Economy
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Urban & Landscape Design
Solar panels fitted into bike path generate more electricity than expected.
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17 Mar 16
The Dutch e-bike powered by solar energy
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Industrial Design
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Product Design
The Dutch Solar Bike's sleek design is thanks to specially designed solar panels.
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17 Mar 16
Kampala's street children rehabilitated through music and art
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African Design
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Music & Sound Design
M-Lisada is an orphanage in Uganda that empowers Kampala's street children through art.
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17 Mar 16
A movement to clean-up and beautify the city of Bhopal
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Design Activism
Bhopal I-Clean Team is a spot-fixing programme started by a group of locals who are determined to tidy up their city.
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17 Mar 16
A tiny, smart patch could replace insulin shots for diabetes sufferers
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Product Design
A painless patch could mean that millions of diabetes sufferers no longer have to inject themselves to correct their insulin levels.
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16 Mar 16
Welcome to Germany is a cellphone app for refugees
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Information Design
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Product Design
A smart application provides migrants with much-needed information about life in Germany.
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16 Mar 16
Clever cooking hacks to combat wasteful food habits
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Creative Economy
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Food Design
SpoonLed is a video and event series that shows millennials how to make the most out of their food waste.
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16 Mar 16
Ugandan community hall crafted out of basic materials
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African Design
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Architecture & Interiors
Natural light and locally-sourced materials bring the late Ross Langdon’s design to life.
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16 Mar 16
An innovative way to extinguish a fire
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Product Design
The Elide Fire Extinguishing Ball uses a chemical blast to control unexpected fires.
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16 Mar 16
Interactive installations turn Toronto's beaches into winter destinations
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Architecture & Interiors
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Urban & Landscape Design
Toronto’s beach goers are encouraged to hit the seaside throughout the year.
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15 Mar 16
Fashion house Mille Collines celebrates all things Africa
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African Design
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Fashion & Jewellery Design
The recent Mille Collines show at AFI MBFW Joburg takes an elegant and contemporary look at ubiquitous African curios.
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15 Mar 16
Auto-focus specs adapts lenses to near and farsighted vision
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Product Design
Deep Optics’ omnifocals automatically adjust focus, providing the wearer with improved vision.
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15 Mar 16
Newly discovered enzyme could change the way we recycle plastic
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Design Activism
Kyoto University researchers are able to cultivate an enzyme that can break down plastic into harmless chemicals.
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15 Mar 16
Township: Photographs depicting life after South African apartheid
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Art & Photography
Anne Rearick’s work documents the lives of people faced with economic hardship, poverty and racism.
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15 Mar 16
Tiny surgical tools inspired by origami
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Product Design
Researchers were able to do away with bulky surgical parts and rely instead on the principles of origami.
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15 Mar 16
Electronic wastelands raise questions about sustainable design
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Industrial Design
Photo exhibition E-waste Tsunami calls on designers to think up better ways to deal with e-waste.
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14 Mar 16
A pictorial narrative explores the estranged lives of adults
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Art & Photography
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Information Design
A children’s book for adults, The Well of Being explores life through narrative and illustration.
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14 Mar 16
US digital artist talks representation of minorities in graphic design
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Art & Photography
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Graphic Design & Illustration
Jeff Manning’s work is inspired by music and informed by the need to represent minorities in graphic design.
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14 Mar 16
EduKick designs football games that teach slum kids maths
Design News
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Creative Economy
Community project gets creative with soccer to increase children’s literacy in India.
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14 Mar 16
Asmara: Unlikely home to Modernist Architecture
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African Design
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Architecture & Interiors
Asmara, a city in Eritrea in North East Africa, is an unlikely treasure trove of standing modernist architecture.
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11 Mar 16
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