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Light into darkness
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20 Jul 20
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This week, we optimistically seek enlightenment by focusing on bright ideas and inventive solutions that light the way to a better world.
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CarbFix is a secure and cost-effective solution to protecting the environment
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16 Jul 20
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CarbFix captures CO2 from industry, dissolves it in water, and injects it deep underground.
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Recycling the Serpentine Pavilion
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16 Jul 20
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Johannesburg-based collaborative architectural studio and all women team, Counterspace will be designing the iconic Serpentine Pavilion for 2020/2021.
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This glow kit allows you to attract the fish species you hope to catch
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16 Jul 20
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Created by SafetyNet Technologies the device is described as a light emitting device that is adaptable to many different fish species.
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A Non-ageist App
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16 Jul 20
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Mighty Health is tailored to the fitness and nutritional needs of older adults.
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Discover a new perspective of Earth with Spaceship Neptune
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16 Jul 20
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This space balloon can hold up to eight passengers and a pilot, for a six-hour trip at an anticipated price of around $125,000 per person.
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Lilium Jet: The new wave of air mobility
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16 Jul 20
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What if your uber could fly? And we’re not referring to breaking the road speed limit…
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Personalised sushi based on your DNA biodata
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16 Jul 20
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Japanese restaurant, Sushi Singularity uncannily predicts the convergence of wasabi and the world wide web.
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Sir David Adjaye honours police brutality victim with public memorial
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16 Jul 20
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Adjaye unveiled a London public memorial for Cherry Groce, a black woman who was shot by the Metropolitan Police in her own home in 1985.
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Parallaxis: A film on understanding earth’s architecture
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9 Jul 20
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Parallaxis asks us to contemplate an intergenerational, interplanetary existence that connects the now, before, and future of this ecosystem.
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The one of a kind NASA designed Fragrance
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9 Jul 20
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Experience the mysterious smell of space for yourself.
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The rise of gaming activism
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9 Jul 20
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Fortnite decides to educate its users about systemic racism and gets them to battle prejudice
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Translating a Japanese proverb with vocals and visuals
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9 Jul 20
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The film explores the Japanese concept of the space between all things.
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Turning data collected from your heartbeat into messages for your loved ones
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9 Jul 20
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Crossing the borders between biology and code to create digital art.
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Water Wonderland
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7 Jul 20
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Here are a few ways in which the world’s most fluid minds are responding to issues of water preservation and sustainability.
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Current Affairs
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3 Jul 20
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Currents for Currents, an award winning concept for a floating community
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Portable Potable
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3 Jul 20
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Quench Sea, a portable desalination device
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Plastic Pandemic
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3 Jul 20
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How will the Covid-19 Health Pandemic affect the world's oceans?
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A new source of water?
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3 Jul 20
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A new sponge-like nanomaterial, designed to be used in existing dehumidifiers, could offer a new source of aqua.
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This non-profit is combating climate change with underwater farming
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3 Jul 20
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Regenerative ocean farmers, GreenWave have developed a model of sustainable underwater vertical farming
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A floating farm that is designed to reduce wasteful emissions
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3 Jul 20
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“Technologies that minimize the ecological footprint and are based on circular principles are aimed for on all levels of the farm."
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The design squadron of the future
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25 Jun 20
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Meet the bright young creatives who have surfaced through our three longstanding youth programmes: Emerging Creatives, Global Graduates and antenna.
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The drum machine by Nicolás Kisic Aguirre
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12 Jun 20
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The Peruvian designer’s open-source projects are a combination of sound, architecture and the mind.
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Taking online learning into the physical realm
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12 Jun 20
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China’s most successful online learning platform, Qkids is taking learning into the physical realm with newly designed space.
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Golden touch
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9 Sep 22
Mishaal Gangaram is a conceptual photographer, visual storyteller and one of Design Indaba’s Emerging Creatives for 2022
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Dokter’s orders
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9 Sep 22
Johannesburg-based multidisciplinary product-design company Dokter and Misses’ latest collection is functional art.
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The anatomy of art
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9 Sep 22
New York-based artist Michael Mapes creates fragmented portraits out of collected items
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‘A’ Okay
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9 Sep 22
Swedish architecture firm Naturvillan designed an A-framed ‘greenhouse’ that is entirely self-sufficient.
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