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Can bacteria colour our fashion?
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24 Jul 26
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Neri Oxman’s practice, OXMAN, explores a future in which bacteria grows fashion’s palette
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Alpine Refuge
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22 Jul 26
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Pancalpina is a light touch, context responsive emergency shelter
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Neri&Hu’s Terracotta Hong Kong icon
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22 Jul 26
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Design Indaba Alumnus Neri&Hu breaks the monotony of Hong Kong’s glass and steel skyline with a woven façade.
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Otter neonatal care
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16 Jul 26
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Design That Matters’ award winning conductive warmer to prevent hypothermia.
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AI Teller Machine
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16 Jul 26
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Studio ENESS has turned a decommissioned ATM machine into an interactive art installation that explores humanity’s relationship with AI.
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Routemaster playground
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16 Jul 26
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Interdisciplinary practice R.U.A Studio’s proposal to restore London’s retired New Routemaster buses into neighborhood playgrounds win the 2026 Davidson Prize
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Chance encounters
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26 Jun 26
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An immersive sound installation that embraces chance encounters
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KARRI
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26 Jun 26
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Pentagram’s child-friendly mobile messaging device
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Wind to Watts
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26 Jun 26
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Designer Fabien Brun has created a modular, portable wind turbine
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Designing on Eggshells
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19 Jun 26
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Australian Designer turns eggshells into lighting
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A Serpentine
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19 Jun 26
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LANZA Atelier's Serpentine Pavilion proves that less can be more
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Who is watching?
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19 Jun 26
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British trip-hop pioneers Massive Attack and the London collective, United Visual Artists (UVA) collaborate for provocative onstage visuals.
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Plastic Tapestries
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12 Jun 26
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Moffat Takadiwa transforms Zimbabwe’s plastic waste into powerful tapestries
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Conflict Ecology
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11 Jun 26
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The Geospatial research studio who is using radar technology to reveal the hidden impact of conflict.
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Joy through resistance
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11 Jun 26
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Yinka Ilori’s latest exhibition showcases his deeper roots of joy
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Sound and Light Soother
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5 Jun 26
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Motorola’s S1 Soother Brings Emotional Design to the Nursery
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A Bracelet That Translates Sign Language
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5 Jun 26
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Nura’s bracelet design wins the 2026 Rimowa Design Prize
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Wave Energy
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28 May 26
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Spanish engineering company IDOM launches MARMOK-A-5, a floating wave energy converter.
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Freeway Park
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28 May 26
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Designed by HKS and SWA, Halperin Park is a “cap park” built over a 14 lane freeway to repair social fabric.
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As Seen Below
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21 May 26
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James Turrell’s new Skyspace Opens at ARoS in June 2026
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Floating Futures
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19 May 26
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Studio Malu explores a new relationship between food, climate and territory
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Spiritual District
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15 May 26
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Stefano Boeri Architetti, the project reimagines the monastery as a civic space.
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Microplastic capturing Algae
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15 May 26
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Scientists at the University of Missouri have developed a genetically engineered algae capable of removing microplastics from polluted water.
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Communal Spirit
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8 May 26
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Kéré Architecture’s first built work in South America
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24 Apr 23
Former Design Indaba Emerging Creatives showcased their collections at South African Fashion Week 2023.
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Heads up
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24 Apr 23
William Kentridge's The Head & The Load comes to the African continent for the first time.
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Cabin fever
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24 Apr 23
This wooden cabin can be opened up to let in nature.
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The plot thickens
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17 Apr 23
Studio Other Spaces has been developing this massive park in Ethiopia since 2013.
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