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Giorgia Lupi and Kaki King on the value of beauty in design

Beauty or functionality? We ask the designers who helped us feel data and see music. >
Bug poop apparel

The Clean Colour Collection is the latest trend in eco-friendly fashion. >
Interactive robot helps disabled children develop

Leka, the robot that changes the way children with developmental disorders learn, play and interact. >
Bobby Rogers’ portrait series addresses anti-Black racism and Islamophobia in the United States

Inspired by the viral twitter hashtag: #BeingBlackAndMuslim. >
The bold, mixed-media collages of Kasmir Jones

The American artist’s work pays tribute to black cultural icons. >
3D printing with Martian dust

A technique to aid in the development of the first Mars colony. >
This graphic novel is educating Chicago’s youth about their civic responsibility

From Chicago Architecture Foundation, No Small Plans is designed to provide civic education. >
This Ain't A Eulogy: A Ritual for Re-membering

Taja Lindley captures her emotive performance art piece on film. >
A device and mobile app that lets you grow pesticide-free, fresh food 365 days a year

No sunshine required to grow your own healthy food. Grow and monitor yours in your home at the click of a button. >
“Welcome to Resistance School. Our first class is now in session.”

Designed by Harvard University students, this program teaches anyone how to be an effective activist. >
My Entire High School Sinking into the Sea

Directed by Dash Shaw, the film’s lo-fi quality goes against the trend of current animation. >
Digital tool tracks innovative water projects in the US

The US is battling against ageing infrastructure. This Living Map highlights its wins so far. >
Artwork for equity

These original postcards promote inclusion, equity, liberation, and justice for all races. >
Scientists discover a way to harvest fresh water from air

This device also works in arid regions >
Eddie Opara: Always a work in progress

A brief jaunt through design, part three. Today we share a short interview with innovative graphic designer Eddie Opara. >
DuoSkin: Tattoos that work as on-skin interfaces

MIT have developed DuoSkin, a metallic tattoo that enables you to use your skin as an interface to control devices, receive data and communicate. >
Giorgia Lupi: Drawing from life

A brief jaunt through design, part two. Today we share a short interview with emotional data translator Giorgia Lupi. >
Nelly Ben Hayoun: An impolite future hero

A brief jaunt through design, part one. Today we begin with a designer who tries to put volcanoes in your living room. >
Virtual Reality App offers better clinical care to cancer patients

Oncomfort finds an innovative way to help cancer patients self-manage stress, anxiety and pain through evidence-based psychological interventions in VR. >
Zadok Ben-David makes art out of all the people he saw but never met

The London-based artist’s work laments the human race’s growing isolation. >
Free language education for the world

Tech entrepreneur Luis von Ahn created an app that enables anyone, anywhere to learn a language for free. >
The APSARA drone disintegrates once it reaches its destination

Introducing the ‘Ikea of drones”. >
This animated series is a hilariously relatable confrontation of gender stereotypes

2D animator and filmmaker Caress Reeves’ shorts address gendered reactions on the current culture. >
We like this border because it wouldn’t really be a border at all

Trump’s border wall reimagined as a regenerative co-nation shared by both Mexico and the U.S >

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