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Algae-based water bottle decomposes when empty
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30 Mar 16
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Product design student comes up with a 100 per cent natural alternative to the plastic water bottle.
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Sweet Kills: A designer’s impression of the dangers of diabetes
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30 Mar 16
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Nattakong Jaengsem’s Sweet Kills campaign takes a gory look at the dangers of sweet treats.
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Immersive 360-degree world drawn with a permanent marker
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29 Mar 16
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Accomplished artist Oscar Oiwa exhibits “Oiwa Island 2” at the Setouchi Triennale art festival.
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Power plant makes electricity out of cheese
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29 Mar 16
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Renewable energy group Valbio built a power plant that generates clean energy from a byproduct of cheese production.
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Would you chew on meat flavoured gum?
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29 Mar 16
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This is one of the meat related questions served up by a temporary conceptual butcher in The Netherlands.
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Plantable pencils challenge use-and-chuck-away culture
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29 Mar 16
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The Sprout pencil grows into a plant if you place it in a pot.
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Cubetto: A coding tutor for kids as young as three
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25 Mar 16
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Cubetto by Primo Toys is a kid-friendly, wooden robot that teaches kids to code in a way they can see and touch.
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Cape Town set to build its first blind-friendly outdoor park
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24 Mar 16
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A park specially designed to accommodate those with impaired vision - the first of its kind in Cape Town.
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William Kentridge celebrates Rome’s history with a 550-metre frieze
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24 Mar 16
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Using reverse graffiti, William Kentridge will wash his iconic stencils along the banks of the Tiber River in Rome.
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“Kenya’s League of Extravagant Grannies”
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23 Mar 16
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Osborne Macharia’s latest photographic narrative tells the tale of three retired ministers jet-setting around Africa.
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Bangladesh-based start-up boasts zero-waste fashion
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23 Mar 16
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Upcycling, recycling and reinvestment are the principles of this eco-friendly fashion brand.
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Fontus self-filling water bottles
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22 Mar 16
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Water bottles designed to harvest water from the air using an internal condensation system.
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Nature already has a solution to water contamination
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22 Mar 16
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Researchers look into an ancient Native American method of purifying water with cactus goo.
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WaterWheel: A rolling solution in rural India
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22 Mar 16
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Wello Water’s WaterWheel lifts the physical burden of water collection in rural India.
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Edible cutlery: Eat with it and then eat it
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21 Mar 16
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In an attempt to curb the amount of waste caused by disposable cutlery, Narayana Peesapati has invented cutlery you can eat.
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CrowdVoice: An archive of social unrest from around the world
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21 Mar 16
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Esra’a Al Shafei’s online platform curates user-generated content from protests around the world.
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Virtual reality used for drug rehabilitation
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21 Mar 16
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Programme at the University of Houston treats drug and alcohol addiction with immersive VR scenarios.
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Doctors Without Borders trials 3D printing and VR technology to design field hospitals
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18 Mar 16
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Médecins Sans Frontières (Doctors Without Borders) are trialling the use of virtual reality and 3D printing in the design process of their field hospitals.
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Electric-assisted handcycle prototype proposed as low-cost wheelchair in Bangladesh
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18 Mar 16
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Researchers design a solar-powered vehicle as a possible upgrade of the widespread manual wheelchair.
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The "A" speaker: A solution to noise pollution
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17 Mar 16
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The "A" speaker is like listening to headphones without the headphones.
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Pigeon Air Patrol reports London’s air quality to tweeters
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17 Mar 16
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Plume Labs sends a fleet of racing pigeons into the sky to monitor London’s pollution index.
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Bicycle path doubles as solar panel
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17 Mar 16
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Solar panels fitted into bike path generate more electricity than expected.
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Kampala's street children rehabilitated through music and art
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17 Mar 16
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M-Lisada is an orphanage in Uganda that empowers Kampala's street children through art.
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A movement to clean-up and beautify the city of Bhopal
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17 Mar 16
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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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This set of woodcut prints celebrates the months of the year.
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The art bias
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27 Mar 23
The aim of this Bangalore museum collection is to reframe ideas of Indian art.
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27 Mar 23
For 2023 Design Indaba Emerging Creative Kamil Adam Hassim, nature is the ultimate inspiration.
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This climate-adaptable pavilion is 3D-printed from recycled plastic.
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