Netherlands | Design Indaba

Student invents ambulance drone for speedy medical assistance

This engineering graduate is using drone tech as a force for good. >
Pauline van Dongen’s latest invention is a shirt designed to correct your posture

Eliminate slouching with this smart addition to your wardrobe. >
The Current collection integrates solar energy in everyday objects

The Current Table by Dutch design studio Caventou uses solar-integrated glass to generate energy from light in a process similar to photosynthesis. >
Planting trees in inhospitable environments

The Cocoon is a completely organic vessel that lets you plant trees in the worst environments. >
Erik Kessels: In advertising, ideas are more important than craft

Erik Kessels believes that in advertising, ideas are more important than craft and that to stay creatively stimulated you have to be a hybrid. >
The Other Side of Palestine by Brian Megens

This photography series aims to present a different picture of life in the West Bank. >
Lava Lab on the millennial renaissance

Members of Amsterdam-based studio Lava Lab, Cecilia Martin and Klasien van de Zandschulp are risk takers with a deliberately disruptive approach to work. >
The Boring Collection: Lensvelt's deliberately drab furniture

The remarkable thing about this furniture line is that it is totally unremarkable. >
Ceiling lamp made from its own packaging

Dutch design studio creates waste-free lamp from cardboard tubing. >
Sistaaz of the Castle: Colourful transgender fashion in Cape Town

Dutch artists Jan Hoek and Duran Lantink depict transgender sex workers in bouyant fashions. >
Condom material used to design advanced athletic wear

SKYNFEEL APPAREL uses innovative condom material to create aerodynamic long jump suit. >
Minimising waste with the Flax Chair

Dutch designer Christien Meindertsma proves furniture can carry both stylistic and ecological integrity. >
Trash disposal games cleans up Dutch campus

Strategically placed trashcans were installed at the Dutch Koning Willem I College to prevent students from littering across the campus. >
Can hairy plants clean up Amsterdam’s air pollution?

The Green Junkie’s ability to absorb carbon pollution is currently being tested. >
Changing fonts with our faces

What if our fonts could reflect exactly what we feel? >
Floating Farm set to launch in Rotterdam

Waterfront dairy farm presents a sustainable approach to food production in cities. >
The Mine Kafon Drone could rid the world of land mines in 10 years

Landmines kill or maim 10 civilians every day. Product designer Massoud Hassani’s latest drone innovation wants to solve the problem in our lifetime. >
MOMALA – the healthcare app that detects malaria on the spot

This medical app turns a smartphone into a microscope to diagnose malaria at an early stage in just a few clicks. >
Biobased bridge finally brought to life

After years of research, students create first demo of a pedestrian bridge made from flax and hemp fibres. >
Keep it cool during power outages with Coolfinity – the Icebank Cooler

The Coolfinity is a fridge that is specifically designed to handle power outages, keeping vital medicines like vaccines at their optimal storage temperatures. >
Project MARCH gives paraplegics the chance to stand and walk

MARCH uses smart exoskeleton technology to enable paraplegics to stand up, walk and speak to people eye-to-eye. >
Take me to your feeder! Scientists successfully farm edible crops in Martian soil

Scientists at Wageningen University have successfully grown edible cereals and vegetables including peas, radishes, tomatoes and rye in Martian soil. >
Lava Lab: Innovation at the intersection

We talk to the ladies of Lava Lab about the rise of the hybrid designer and the age of Millenial thinking. >
The world’s largest air purifier is touring the smoggy cities of China

Dutch designer Daan Roosegaarde’s Smog Free Tower (which works like a vacuum cleaner for dirty air) is travelling to China. >

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