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Smart street furniture for a safer city

Design Frontiers > Industrial Design

Combatting air and noise pollution with Simply Grid.

1 Dec 16
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Change a life with just one swipe!

Design News > Design Activism

Radi-Aid hilariously shows us that not all campaigns are created equal.

1 Dec 16
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Vincent Callebaut’s eco-skyscraper takes shape in Taipei

Design Frontiers > Architecture & Interiors

The green building imitates the processes of natural ecosystems.

1 Dec 16
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Redefining solar power from architectural eyesore to civic monument

Design News > Urban & Landscape Design

Frederik Deschuytter questions: Why would we install solar power tech in remote places when the sun also shines in the city?

1 Dec 16
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Moving from health care to self-care

Design News > Design Activism

Cubigo is leading the transformation of care when it comes to the ageing, one of the most vulnerable communities.

30 Nov 16
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Interactions between the body and space with FOS

Talks > Art & Photography

Danish artist-cum-designer Thomas Poulsen, also known as FOS, plays with the interactions between the human body and the space it occupies.

30 Nov 16
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Bridging the gaps between human & machine

Design Frontiers > Design Thinking

The division between tech & biology seems more blurred now than ever before. How will this intensifying trend evolve?

30 Nov 16
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Artist interprets movement disorder into striking, intricate headpieces

Design News > Art & Photography

Tiago Valente’s ‘Dystonia’ converts pain into beauty.

30 Nov 16
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Francis Kokoroko: Documenting life as it goes

Video Interviews > Art & Photography

Ghanaian photographer Francis Kokoroko creates images that reflect his understanding of the world.

30 Nov 16
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Student gives the traditional white cane a modern update

Design News > Product Design

mySmartCane could provide a better quality of life for the blind.

30 Nov 16
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Van Eijk & Van Der Lubbe are changing space with influential design

Video Interviews > Product Design

Dutch design duo Miriam van der Lubbe and Niels van Eijk talk us through some of their most influential projects.

29 Nov 16
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Chat with Kent Lingeveldt

Video Interviews > Product Design

What do you want to know about Cape Town-based longboard skater and shaper Kent Lingeveldt?

29 Nov 16
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Hurricane Season by Hannah Modigh

Design News > Art & Photography

The award-winning photographer captures the tension of living between disasters.

29 Nov 16
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What will the cities of the future look like?

Design News > Architecture & Interiors

Hint: They’re green.

29 Nov 16
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These mirrored placards give peaceful protesters a means of protection

Design Frontiers > Design Activism

Nikolas Bentel’s reflective protest signs for the Dakota Access Pipeline protesters.

29 Nov 16
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Insecurities: Tracing Displacement and Shelter

Design News > Design Activism

New MOMA exhibition investigates the design & infrastructure of modern refugee camps.

29 Nov 16
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Photographer captures the vulnerability in nature as it intersects with science

Design News > Art & Photography

Ornithological Photographs explores our need to know, name and quantify diversity.

28 Nov 16
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Naked, defenseless & without glory

Design News > Art & Photography

Sam Jinks’ hyper-real sculptures depict an unsettling human vulnerability.

28 Nov 16
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Singapore’s self-driving scooter

Design News > Design Thinking

A driverless scooter could be the next step in autonomous transportation.

28 Nov 16
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Unsatisfying: You know this feeling

Design News > Film & Animation

Motion design studio Parallel Studios are calling for people to submit short animations of completely unsatisfying moments in their day.

28 Nov 16
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Me, Myself and You is a board game to help Autistic adults make friends

Design Frontiers > Product Design

The multiplayer board game designed to facilitate social connections between those on the spectrum.

28 Nov 16
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Intimate Strangers: We The People

Next Generation > Art & Photography

In Part 4 of her series Intimate Strangers, Puleng Mongale captures another pair of lookalikes and sets the images to the lyrics of A Tribe Called Quest.

25 Nov 16
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Innovative capsule achieves long-term drug delivery

Design Frontiers > Design Thinking

This drug capsule offers an alternative to daily doses of medication

25 Nov 16
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New stick on patch uses sweat to monitor your health

Design Frontiers > Product Design

The soft, flexible skin patch that can inspect your perspiration while you work out.

25 Nov 16

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Hollywood calling

Q&A • 16 Aug 22

This Design Indaba Emerging Creative for 2022 is a content creator and fitness influencer with a penchant for filmmaking >
Community living

Design News • 16 Aug 22

Mumbai-based architectural and design firm Community Design Agency is working together with community members to revitalise the Sanjaynagar slum >
Star quality

Design News • 16 Aug 22

Siviwe Jali, one of the Design Indaba Emerging Creative mentees from 2014, recently won the Best New Talent award at Decorex Cape Town 2022 >
Mr Sandman

Design News • 16 Aug 22

Recent graduate Archie Read designed an off-grid, ‘flushable’ toilet that aims to provide a dignified solution to unsafe sanitary conditions >

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