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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. >
Kenzo’s delicate and shape-shifting short film about the complexities of music

Music is my Mistress is a short film directed by Kahlil Joseph for Kenzo Clothing. >
Uber

Technology Designer

Uber is evolving the way the world moves, seamlessly connecting riders to drivers through smartphone technology. >
The Smog of the Sea

There is no floating garbage patch of trash in the ocean, just a whole ocean littered with trash. >
3D printing skin cells directly onto burn wounds

Scientists are increasingly creative in their experimentation with 3D printers. >
Alternative reading in the time of alternative facts

We look at some of the works in RESIST!, A collection of defiance in the United States. >
Brand this: Coca Cola, Spotify and Miss Piggy

Fuelled by Oreos, coffee and talent – co-founder of brand consultancy Collins, Brian Collins talks a little more about life, work and inspiration in New York. >
Dancing through difficulty

Liberty Express is a dance, film and cultural exchange project for children living in poverty. >
“The Wake Up Call” by Nazlee Arbee

Directed by Anunaka, the music video/short film is a visually compelling call to action. >

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