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Fixperts connects designers to those in need of their expertise
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3 Nov 17
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"The idea behind Fixperts is to connect designers with people who could do with a little help in their lives."
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Enough White Tea Cups: a documentary that examines solutions for global challenges
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2 Nov 17
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The film highlights the work of the INDEX: Design to Improve Life® organisation and will be screened at Nightscape 2018.
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Researchers develop EDCC, a new earthquake-resistant concrete
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2 Nov 17
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The malleability of this eco-friendly concrete aims to withstand earthquake pressure.
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Morag Myerscough on giving spaces character and sensitivity through the use of colour
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1 Nov 17
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The Design Indaba Festival 2018 speaker will turn the Artscape Piazza into a wonderland with her colourful structure.
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Yami-Ichi disrupts how the price of art is valued
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31 Oct 17
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Here, money is powerless and instead the public is invited to barter skills, services and objects for a piece of art.
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Space10’s pop-up brings microgreens to congested urban spaces
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27 Oct 17
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This integrated salad bar could popularise hydroponic food farming where traditional agriculture is unavailable.
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David Adjaye, Ron Arad to design new Holocaust Memorial in London
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24 Oct 17
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The National Holocaust Memorial and Learning Centre will honour victims and survivors of Nazi persecution.
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Angolan visual artist on opening up the conversation about a new African identity
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20 Oct 17
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Kiluanji Kia Henda is the first African artist to receive the Frieze Artist Award.
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Urban trees as sustainability power tools for cities
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19 Oct 17
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If trees are providing so many benefits, why are cities letting this natural resource dwindle?
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Self-taught inventor powers a village in West Africa using hydro energy
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18 Oct 17
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He built a micro-hydroelectric dam for his village using his savings of about R78 000.
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Speak up, speak out, speak back: Africa Architecture Awards 2017
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17 Oct 17
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"What is African architecture? What makes architecture work on this continent?," asks Mark Olweny, a judge at this year’s Africa Architecture Awards.
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First stage of Dementia gets innovative home hub
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16 Oct 17
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With the push of a button, misplacing belongings in stage one Dementia might become less frustrating.
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Buitenkant takes a look at homelessness in Cape Town
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16 Oct 17
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This homeless woman discovers a set of keys in a muddy puddle of water.
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Calling concrete artists: Entries for the 2018 PPC Imaginarium Awards are now open
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11 Oct 17
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The PPC Imaginarium Awards is now accepting entries from both South Africa and Zimbabwe.
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The Trashpresso transforms plastic bottles into stunning architectural tiles
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9 Oct 17
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This remarkable upcycling process turns discarded waste into something beautiful.
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Photo series presents thought-provoking look at humanity stripped bare
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6 Oct 17
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The project highlights the fragility and vitality of the human body juxtaposed against the backdrop of urban architecture.
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Everything you need to know about the #ArchForArch monument
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4 Oct 17
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The project celebrates peace, empathy and the life of Archbishop Desmond Tutu.
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UAE reveals the Mars Science project
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4 Oct 17
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The project aims to build the first inhabitable human settlement on Mars.
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Baba Tjeko’s illustrations bring the Sesotho geometric art of Litema to life
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4 Oct 17
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He portrays African ideas and perspectives through his Litema artwork in hopes of positive change in other young designers.
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Street art as a form of mediation
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3 Oct 17
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He aspires to transform the city's streets to create dialogue and interaction between the environment and our experience of it.
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The Gangsta Gardener is bringing affordable and nutritious produce to California’s ‘food deserts’
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3 Oct 17
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Ron Finley plants vegetable gardens in South Central LA to offer alternative food sources.
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Photo series pokes fun at conventional glamour photography
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2 Oct 17
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Kolor Art Collective presents their latest tongue-in-cheek offering with Pol Kurucz at the helm.
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Striking masks inspired by North African culture
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29 Sep 17
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This Columbian artist blurs the line between photorealistic painting and surreal expression.
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Famous artworks come to life on the streets of London
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28 Sep 17
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Applied upon human canvases, this project aims to communicate that art is for the masses.
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When pictures tell stories
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Photographic memory
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Influential post-war Japanese photographer’s solo exhibition highlights the pathos of the past
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Just beachy
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Tosin Oshinowo’s Coral Pavilion embraces the traditions of tropical modernism in West Africa
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Treehotel and BIG make a case for species co-habitation with their new collaboration, Biosphere
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