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Alex McDowell

Digital Designer • Product Designer

Award-winning designer Alex McDowell is an immersive storyteller. He is best known for the set designs for "Minority Report", "Fight Club" and "Man of Steel". >
Worm farm becomes world leader in trash economics

A vermiculture project has catapulted Tom Szask into the leader of eco-capitalism. >
Inspiring an anti-pollution revolution one brick at a time

MIT students develop a low-cost, eco-friendly brick made out of industrial waste to reduce pollution in India. >
A burka made from sugar challenges modern perceptions

Worn by Muslim women all over the world, the burka has been a controversial topic for centuries. >
Gecko-like grip soon to be within reach of humans

Engineers at Stanford University have developed adhesive materials that mimic a gecko’s gripping power. >
Yogita Agrawal

Industrial Designer

Industrial designer Yogita Agrawal focuses on solving problems in emerging global communities with innovative products and sustainable technologies. >
Affordable exoskeleton could help paraplegic kids walk, sit or stand

The Phoenix, the world’s lightest exoskeleton for the disabled, will be adapted to help disabled children. >
Clara Mar Hernández López

Architect

Clara Mar Hernández López is an architect with a special interest in sustainable design. >
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. >

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