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Ending world hunger is a matter of logistics

Transfernation is an online platform that aims to tackle hunger by redistributing food waste. >
BaseLantern: a new project by BioLite

The BaseLantern portable lantern is designed for off-grid usage. >
New African Photography Exhibition hosted in New York

African artists and photographers are getting some serious attention and exposure overseas. Here's a look at one current exhibition in New York. >
Shared Studios launches a new Portal to Rwanda

The project designs futuristic portals, allowing users to reach out across the globe and communicate with each other face-to-face. >
New York rec centre combines gaming and exercise

Interactive and high-intensity, this circuit-based gym changes the experience of exercise. >
Traffic lights designed for distracted walkers

The German city of Augsburg installs pavement lights to ensure the safety of pedestrians distracted by their phones. >
Cricket Shelter: A modular way to farm food

Terreform ONE’s latest contribution to hybrid architecture is a modular urban insect farm that promises to be a sustainable food hub. >
All Love Is Equal takes a fairytale approach to LGBTIQ relationships

All love is iconic and all love should be viewed as a fairytale, says LGBTIQ photographer Braden Summers. >
Swale: the floating food forest

The Brooklyn-based project is a self-sustaining ecosystem, created to redesign our relationship with food. >
Smart thermometer crowdsources info for real-time health tracking

Kinsa’s Smart Thermometer is able to help individuals and communities map diseases before they spread. >
Electronic wastelands raise questions about sustainable design

Photo exhibition E-waste Tsunami calls on designers to think up better ways to deal with e-waste. >
Jua Kali interprets the ingenuity of Nairobi's informal sector

Kenyan artist Tahir Carl Karmali's photomontage series deconstructs hacker culture in Kenya. >
Urban Farm Pod: A plant growing sphere in urban spaces

Terreform ONE’s Plug-In-Ecology project brings vertical farming to urban spaces. >
Shape-shifting textile cloud can change sound quality in a room

BLOOM is a knitted origami surface that can alter the ambient acoustics of public spaces. >
Candyfloss characters in comical GIFs with a feminist touch

Inspired by Instagram artists, Swedish art director Sofia Hydman creates GIFs depicting chubby, confident girls. >
Friends of Light: Handwoven jackets from New York

Fashion designer and professor Pascale Gatzen founded the weaving cooperative Friends of Light to help bring a little mindfulness back into fashion. >
Pascale Gatzen

Fashion Designer • Textile Designer

Pascale Gatzen is an artist, educator and fashion designer based in New York. She developed an alternative fashion curriculum at Parsons The New School. >
3D-printed blocks designed to transform into a range of cameras

Researchers at Columbia University design a modular camera system that rethinks the common camera. >
Joel Nsadha: From Kampala to New York

“People inspire me. Everybody has an interesting story to tell.” >
Ethnographic photographs and digital art converge in Folasade Adeoso's work

Digital artist Folasade Adeoso juxtaposes ethnographic photos of the colonial era with drawn lines, gif animations and flashing flowers of present-day Tumblr. >
Sarah Rosado: Cereal artist, constant creator

Amongst other things, New York-based artist Sarah Rosado creates celebrity portraits out of crushed cereal flakes. >
This feathered jacket flutters when you face north

This augmented feathered jacket by Birce Ozkan is a smart fashion piece that mimics the innate navigational senses of a bird. >
Worm farm becomes world leader in trash economics

A vermiculture project has catapulted Tom Szask into the leader of eco-capitalism. >
Yogita Agrawal

Industrial Designer

Industrial designer Yogita Agrawal focuses on solving problems in emerging global communities with innovative products and sustainable technologies. >

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