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Christophe Guberan

Industrial Designer

Industrial designer Christophe Guberan is fascinated by the intrinsic features of materials and how he can reimagine their properties and aesthetic. >
Stickybones: Animation made easy with this intuitive puppet

The Stickybones puppet is a revolutionary animation-art figure perfectly calibrated to bring your ideas to life. >
The Dencity Competition co-founders on rethinking slums

The social architects behind non-profit organisation, Shelter Global share their experiences on confronting the world’s shelter crisis. >
A burial suit to better decompose your body

The Infinity Burial Project greens-up your funeral with a suit that devours your corpse. >
An exhibition challenging the stereotypes that diminish black female bodies

“Abandoned Margins” is an exhibition tackling Western beauty standards, cultural identity, historical erasure, trauma, and the representation of black bodies. >
Kids taught to design their own superpowers in prosthetics workshop

NGO KIDmob’s Superhero Cyborgs 2.0 workshop teaches kids about 3D printing and design. >
Quartz

Publisher

Quartz is a digitally native, global, business news brand launched by Atlantic Media in September 2012. >
Cross Colours

DJ • Musician

Jessica Cross is the brain behind the acclaimed Cross Colours music sets. >
Young Mexico City architecture practice will knit a neon canopy over the MoMA

Escobedo Solíz Studio, a Mexico City-based studio has won MoMA’s Young Architecture Program with their bid to knit a neon canopy over the museum’s garden. >
Austin’s low-cost but effective pedestrian crossing system

A dangerous intersection in Texas gets a quick makeover thanks to resourceful urban planning. >
Flower House: Bringing the dead to life

Abandoned for 15 years, this Detroit home became an internationally acclaimed art project called Flower House. >
The world's most environmentally conscious restaurant?

The Perennial in San Francisco is founded on sustainable principles that inform everything from its farming methods to its design. >
Human tissue, smart textiles could follow these 4D-printed flowers

Researchers take 3D printing to the next level with printed objects that mimic the way plants move in nature. >
An environmentally friendly battery made with a leaf

University of Maryland scientists prove that a leaf can store energy just like a battery. >
Alfredo Brillembourg

Architect • Urban Designer

Alfredo Brillembourg is an architect and urban designer redefining the socio-economic system to overcome the emergent challenges in rapid urbanisation. >
Flying ambulance drone proposed for time-sensitive emergencies

Argodesign’s ambulance quadcopter is designed to improve emergency response times in critical medical situations. >
Huerta del Valle urban farm inspires sustainable community building

Ontaria’s first community garden is a hub of organic farming, community support and education. >
The Wolfpack

"The Wolfpack" is a documentary film about a family who home-schooled and raised their seven children in the confinement of their apartment in New York City. >
Fashion students activate green textile production on campus

Students’ sustainable textile projects lead by example at New York’s Fashion Institute of Technology >
Anomalisa

Charlie Kaufman’s puppet noir film, "Anomalisa" follows one man’s identity crisis during a weekend in Cincinnati. >
A lamp for space-starved city dwellers

RISD graduate Matthew Lim has designed the Tack light – a portable lamp that can be magnetically attached to a wall-mounted plate. >
GoldLink’s “Pink, Blue & Orange” negotiates three kinds of relationships

Recording artist GoldLink used visual narratives to enhance his latest album, which deals with past relationships. >
Harvesting energy from the wind using plastic grass

University researchers present a possible alternative to solar panels and bulky wind turbines. >
Four tech-savvy African creators launch a solution to high shipping costs

Shypmate cuts the costs of international deliveries and provides income opportunities for travellers. >

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