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Design that deals with #Control
Control is power: take it, or let it go. Control your impulses, control your body, or have the control taken out of your hands.
De-Formance by Jessica Smarsch
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Film & Animation
De-Formance is a unique project that investigates the connection between design and movement.
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4 Nov 16
Desperately Perfect
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Art & Photography
Rachel Papo captures the drive and skill of young Russian dancers in a photo series.
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31 Oct 16
Mind-controlled robotic arm allows man to feel again
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Design Thinking
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Interaction Design
Scientists are working to restore lost sensation with advanced haptic tech.
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25 Oct 16
When I think about you I text myself
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Design Thinking
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Interaction Design
Love in the time of human and machine: Control your impulse to send an emotional drunk message by sending it instead to a surrogate robot number.
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14 Oct 16
Pauline van Dongen’s latest invention is a shirt designed to correct your posture
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Fashion & Jewellery Design
Eliminate slouching with this smart addition to your wardrobe.
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14 Oct 16
Pill Talk – the creative campaign working to transform the way we perceive birth control
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Information Design
Overcoming contraceptive stigmas with US graphic designer Erica Benamy.
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10 Oct 16
MakeRight: Involving prisoners in anti-crime design
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Design Thinking
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Product Design
MakeRight is an initiative that gets prisoners to help manufacture “theft-proof” bags that consider the user and the abuser and designs out the crime.
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5 Apr 16
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