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No Waste Challenge winner CarbonCraft is transforming construction
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Carbon Tiles reuse waste to provide eco-friendly building materials
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2 Aug 21
Iwan Baan will transport you to the ‘Most Hopeful Places on Earth’
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Renowned photographer Iwan Baan guest-curates See All This.
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2 Aug 21
A changing landscape
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This week: Design takes Gold in Tokyo; the war on waste; and artists changing norms…
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29 Jul 21
No Waste Challenge 2021 winner Mapu is the world’s first active sound system made of clay, wood, cork and wool
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Craft-led Mapu proves that eco-friendly materials can replace plastics in electronics
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26 Jul 21
Pavilion Tokyo 2021 is a public arts intervention featuring former #DI Speaker Sou Fujimoto
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Sou Fujimoto’s whimsical Cloud Pavilion adds visual poetry to urban Tokyo
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26 Jul 21
#DI Exclusive: Steloolive launches his latest experimental project, NiKANiKA Robotics
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Maverick Ghanian muso and #DI18 performer Steloolive shares his most recent artistic explorations with us
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26 Jul 21
Design that envisions a better future
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No Waste winners, parks that halt climate change, & fashion that empowers…
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22 Jul 21
LOLA and Piet Oudolf’s visionary new landscaping book and exhibition focuses on public gardens as a solution to climate change
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Explore former #DI Speaker Peter Veenstra’s fertile new collab with Piet Oudolf
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19 Jul 21
No Waste Challenge winners announced!
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Sixteen global waste-busters awarded top honours by What Design Can Do.
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16 Jul 21
Exploring Woven Cosmos, Kenyan biophilia, music’s mavericks, & our newest multimedia-ists
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New worlds
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15 Jul 21
Kéré Architecture’s Startup Lions Campus is set to inspire future achievers
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Former #DI Speaker Diébédo Francis Kéré designs a new nature-inspired landmark in Kenya.
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12 Jul 21
Hella Jongerius - a former #DI Speaker - welcomes you into her magical world of weaving
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Woven Cosmos, Hella Jongerius’ interactive show, demonstrates 25 years of textile wisdom.
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12 Jul 21
Why KoolKiel’s cool, Kenya’s new CAMO-flage, proud LGBTQIA+ garb, & more!
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A shot of Expression
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8 Jul 21
Denouncing plastic, hair as art, African spirituality & the Bouroullec Brothers’s latest…
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Design for people, by people.
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7 Jul 21
Kenyan photographer Thandiwe Muriu’s Parisian show stands out by blending in
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Thandiwe Muriu’s CAMO series celebrates being African by playing with colour and culture.
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5 Jul 21
#DI Speaker Winy Maas’s latest MVRDV project, KoolKiel, is a community-engaged, resident-designed building
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For its new building project in Germany, MVRDV has asked the community what they want.
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5 Jul 21
Spoon Archaeology examines plastic cutlery, hopefully, as a relic of the past
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Kai Linke and Peter Eckart put 20 years of plastic cutlery on museum display.
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28 Jun 21
Tadao Ando, NeM and Bouroullec Brothers transform La Bourse de Commerce
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La Bourse de Commerce - Pinault Collection bridges past and present.
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28 Jun 21
Reframing specs, a sustainable high-speed train, and adaptable materials
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Seeing into the future.
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23 Jun 21
The high-speed Hyperloop by Zaha Hadid Architects will revolutionise land-based travel
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Hyperloop and Zaha Hadid Architects on track to transport us into the future.
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21 Jun 21
#DI Global Graduate Ackeem Ngwenya envisions a future of fashion inclusivity with REFRAMD eyewear
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REFRAMD’s vision is one of individualized solutions to eyewear.
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21 Jun 21
Archi’s latest: BIG’s news, Sir Adjaye sculpts, Serpentine launches & Snøhetta redesigns cement
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News and views from the world of architecture.
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16 Jun 21
#DI Alumnus Snøhetta takes Green Building One Step further by Developing Sustainable Concrete
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Norwegian studio Snøhetta’s pioneering new forms of concrete will change the urban landscape for the better.
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14 Jun 21
#DI Speaker Sir David Adjaye Showcases his Sculpture alongside Painting by Adam Pendleton
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Pace Gallery’s dynamic two-person show explores identity and language.
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14 Jun 21
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