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Discovering a new state of matter
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Product Design
New frontiers of scientific exploration have generated a new phase of matter - liquid glass.
21 Jan 21
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Highlighting the need to redesign hospitals for the future
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Architecture & Interiors
The pandemic has shed light on the inadequacies of hospital models.
21 Jan 21
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A new-age Noah's Ark has been conceived
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Architecture & Interiors
The Noah’s Ark project will be the most technologically advanced conservation centre ever conceived
21 Jan 21
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Masked Crusader
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Information Design
Kim Ha-neul’s sustainable stools are made from discarded masks.
18 Jan 21
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Waste to Wonderful
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Food Design
From discards to snacks that solve for food waste.
18 Jan 21
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Paris’s most famous avenue will be getting a green makeover
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Architecture & Interiors
Champs-Élysées will be getting a green makeover to turn it from a paved paradise into a modern-day Eden.
18 Jan 21
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Your free ticket to Mind-Full mini film festival
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Urban & Landscape Design
Find out what these illustrious designers are up to and how they’re making the world better with their design ingenuity.
11 Jan 21
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The new frontiers in health
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Design Thinking
This week we look at how design concepts, interventions and enhancements can help “cure” medical issues.
16 Dec 20
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The children and education design of the future
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Design Thinking
Here, we explore new formats for childhood learning that foster design thinking and creativity…
23 Nov 20
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Algae Window by Olafur Eliasson
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Interaction Design
Olafur Eliasson has created an Algae Window consisting of glass spheres arranged according to the structure of diatoms.
19 Nov 20
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Yinka Ilori explores how seating systems shape human interactions
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Product Design
Yinka Ilori explores how seating systems shape human interactions with his A Trifle of Colour project.
19 Nov 20
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Bjarke Ingels conceptualizes the futuristic Toyota Woven City
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Creative Economy
The aim of Toyota Woven City is to transform existing modes of transport and test the notion of Mobility for All.
19 Nov 20
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Freyja Sewell creates striking masks to honour the various frontline workers
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Design Activism
Called The Triptych, Freyja Sewell’s masks celebrate different industry sectors with colour-coded flair.
19 Nov 20
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UK’s Eden Project has commissioned Dr Alexandra Daisy Ginsberg
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Interaction Design
The artwork will consist of a garden which will hold a newly curated palette of plants.
19 Nov 20
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Future Sketches an interactive installation by Zach Lieberman
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Industrial Design
Lieberman spoke at the 2018 Design Indaba Conference, where he elaborated on his digital poetry through code and technology.
19 Nov 20
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TheirTube by Tomo Kihara
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Interaction Design
The Japanese designer is known for his playful interventions that provides a new perspective to socio-technical problems.
19 Nov 20
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Jeanne Gang's new award-winning project
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Architecture & Interiors
The aptly named Powerhouse is situated on Beloit’s Rock River waterfront and focuses on recreation, fitness and wellness.
19 Nov 20
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Edo Museum of West African Art by Sir David Adjaye
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Creative Economy
The new space will allow visitors to experience historic monuments in cultural enriched space.
19 Nov 20
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A new fully sustainable human-centric pedestrian bridge to be built across a river in Cape Town
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Urban & Landscape Design
A project spearheaded and commissioned by Design Indaba in collaboration with Paul Cocksedge.
13 Nov 20
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The future of green design
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Urban & Landscape Design
Green. It has physical, spiritual and metaphysical associations.
10 Nov 20
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Cross-laminated timber chapel for a church
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Architecture & Interiors
A first of its kind.
5 Nov 20
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Sidewalk Labs
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Architecture & Interiors
“Sidewalk Labs proposes a plan for Quayside that would create a diverse live-work neighbourhood."
5 Nov 20
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Emergency hospital designed with CLT
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Architecture & Interiors
Developed by Casagrande Laboratory in association with Bjørnådal Architecture Studio from Norway and Sjaelso Finland they created an emergency hospital made up
5 Nov 20
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The world's tallest timber building
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Architecture & Interiors
Designed by Voll Arkitekter AS, the Mjøstårnet tower is known as the world’s tallest timber building since it’s opening in 2019.
5 Nov 20
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Sketchcase transforms your Laptop into a portable whiteboard
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The perfect laptop skin for creatives.
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The smart bicycle dock by engineering student Mardu Swanepoel
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26 Oct 17
The South African student designed a docking station to keep your bicycle safe in theft-prone areas.
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Can we use our own data to become better human beings?
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26 Oct 17
Data designer Giorgia Lupi talks us through her experience of painstakingly collected personal data.
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Taking African animation and storytelling to the world
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25 Oct 17
In this interview, Triggerfish's Stuart Forrest shares his plans to educate budding creatives and take African stories to the international stage.
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