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Refugee chefs share the taste of home

Eat Offbeat: An unprecedented cookbook featuring recipes and stories by refugees now working as chefs in New York City. >
Giving back with ethical fashion

Eco-friendly and ethically made, Allmade pushes the boundaries of the ordinary t-shirt. >
Plan Bee

This could be the pollination process of tomorrow. >
Waves for Water

This new documentary, released on World Water Day, follows former pro surfer Jon Rose and his mission to help bring clean drinking water to those in need. >
MOLD: A focus on the future of food

This new independent publication focusses on the future of food and how design can help feed a hungry planet. >
Greeting cards for people of colour

US-based creative Tara James creates greeting cards as a reflection of cultural tradition. >
Hooded: Subversion through photography

Myles Loftin confronts the stereotype of the hooded black man in a new multimedia project. >
The physicist who folds

Physicist Robert lang left NASA to practice origami. Great Big Story tells us why. >
A conceptualised take on gendered domestic bliss

Photographer Patty Carroll’s Anonymous Women addresses our gendered view of domesticity. >
A step closer to stretchable, soft electronics

Stanford University researchers use a soup additive to create the next generation of flexible electronics. >
Permanent Alien focuses on stories from the Asian American diaspora

“What if we made a comic featuring people who looked like us for people who look like us?” >
Falling: Representing depression through art

This artist depicts her longstanding experience of mental disorder in disturbing style. >
This tampon packaging brings an important part of menstruation out of hiding

Thinx Tampons has gone where no tampon maker has dared go before. >
The Five Fields Play Structure by Matter Design

This playground stimulates the imagination and encourages creativity. >
The intersection of fashion, design and technology

The Rayn Jacket is a universal waterproof coat inspired by wheelchair users. >
Craig Dykers

Architect

Co-founder of Snøhetta, architect Craig Dykers is interested in design as a promoter of social and physical well-being. >
Masters in the art of freestyling it

We chat to Freestyle Love Supreme ahead of their Design Indaba daily wrap ups and once-off performance this Thursday at Nightscape. Get your tickets now! >
New York’s School of Visual Arts brings its Underground Images exhibition to Design Indaba Festival 2017

Underground Images is a collection of more than 50 posters created at SVA for display in the NY subway system. >
Celestial jukeboxes: Music should (and can) support universal health and well being

How does music affect our minds? And how can we use it as a form of medicine? The founder of "music as medicine" platform The Sync Project explains. >
Data Dress: A tangible representation of your online movements

A custom-made dress based on your online data. >
Michael Moore’s Trump resistance calendar for all anti-Trump events

Filmmaker Michael Moore created a Trump resistance calendar to track anti-Trump protests. >
Students harness the sun to purify water

This device could aid households that only have access to contaminated water. >
A constellation of shoe-box satellites for better farming in Africa

These shoe-box size satellites are improving the productivity of some of the most impoverished farmers in the world. >
Low-cost healthcare in an easy to assemble black box

This experimental device tests urine in a reliable, cost effective way. >

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