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Biological Repository
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7 Aug 26
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Snøhetta has unveiled the Theodore Roosevelt Presidential Library in Medora
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Big Walk
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7 Aug 26
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House House's Big Walk makes walking and talking a game mechanic.
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Bio Cells
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31 Jul 26
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University of Cambridge develop a living algae battery could transform how we power everyday devices
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Nature Prescription
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31 Jul 26
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Portugal’s first certified Therapeutic Forest
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To Be Moved
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31 Jul 26
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IKEA’s new collection is designed for a generation of young people who are always on the move.
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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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Fresh air
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This public tower in New Delhi purifies polluted air.
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Tectonic forces
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27 Jun 23
This massive museum emulates the forms created by shifting tectonic plates.
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Clothes minded
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27 Jun 23
2023 Design Indaba Emerging Creative Nokukhanya Justine Zungu is the founder of a brand that specialises in African contemporary women’s wear.
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Decolonising architecture
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27 Jun 23
The Applied Arts pavilion at the Venice Architecture Biennale explores the colonial roots and evolution of Tropical Modernist architecture.
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