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Personalised temperature control follows users around the building
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Architecture & Interiors
Using the Internet-of-Things (IoT) technology, design firm Carlo Ratti Associati created a personalised temperature bubble.
7 Jun 16
00:30:48
Dominic Wilcox on thinking your way out of the normal
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Product Design
Here's a taster from the whimsical, stirring talk from British product designer Dominic Wilcox on how to hunt for new ideas in the everyday.
7 Jun 16
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New mural by Faith47 in Manchester urges for LGBT rights
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Design Activism
New work by Faith47 in Manchester, UK pays homage to human intimacy as well as asserting support for the LGBT rights.
6 Jun 16
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The Refugee Challenge: Six innovative ways to house and educate asylum seekers
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Design Activism
Today’s refugee crisis has left millions without a home or education. Here are some solutions.
6 Jun 16
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From 2D to 3D and back again
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Jongha Choi’s 2D designs can be plucked straight off the wall.
6 Jun 16
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Artist Leigh Le Roux looks to Johannesburg for inspiration
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Graphic Design & Illustration
Local graphic design artist Leigh Le Roux visually represents the city and its people.
6 Jun 16
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An algae-powered city for the world’s newest country
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Architecture & Interiors
RAW-NYC wins competition to design an entire city from scratch for the recently founded nation of Liberland.
6 Jun 16
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MIT Lab’s 3D-printed responsive fur
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Interaction Design
MIT researchers explore the numerous ways to use their new hairy textile, Cillia.
3 Jun 16
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High school students design snap-together homeless shelter
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Architecture & Interiors
HUT is a micro-shelter designed as a low-cost, easy-to-assemble solution to homelessness.
3 Jun 16
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Not Yet Decided: A social experiment in superposition
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Graphic Design & Illustration
A group of young Lithuanian architects are proposing a social project based on Schrödinger's cat, the thought experiment.
3 Jun 16
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A future where products are grown straight out of our skin
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Fashion & Jewellery Design
Designer Amy Congdon imagines a world where biotechnology has changed the way textiles are made.
3 Jun 16
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Ending world hunger is a matter of logistics
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Creative Economy
Transfernation is an online platform that aims to tackle hunger by redistributing food waste.
3 Jun 16
00:02:07
Benjamin Hubert: Design with meaning
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Industrial designer Benjamin Hubert talks about how designers have a responsibility to solve the right kind of problems.
2 Jun 16
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Free Wi-Fi in exchange for keeping the air clean
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Product Design
Amsterdam-based startup TreeWiFi designs birdhouses that offer free internet when the air quality improves.
2 Jun 16
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Soofa: NYC’s solar-powered benches
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Urban & Landscape Design
The Soofa group is spreading technology with their solar-powered benches.
2 Jun 16
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Photo Series: Documenting “The Other Africa”
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Art & Photography
Social documentary photographer Lou Jones has spent the last few years documenting the new Africa, “The Other Africa.”
2 Jun 16
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BooToo: locally designed educational toys
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Product Design
South African entrepreneur Daniel Jillings, creates aesthetically pleasing children’s toys.
2 Jun 16
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How to use consumerism to raise awareness for climate change
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Fashion & Jewellery Design
London-based design studio Something & Son ran a pop-up shop selling elegant jewellery made of coal to question mindless consumption at the cost of the earth.
1 Jun 16
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Graphite: a modular honeycomb-shaped shelving system
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Product Design
A storage system designed to be sturdy and fully customisable.
1 Jun 16
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Social enterprise designs Kenyan running shoe
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Product Design
Enda is a running shoe inspired by Kenya’s legacy of running champions
1 Jun 16
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Welcome Shelter: Charlie Redman’s kinetic dining experience
Next Generation
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Product Design
Architecture student Charlie Redman designed an outdoor structure that functions in any weather.
1 Jun 16
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Someone Somewhere is about empowerment through fashion
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Fashion & Jewellery Design
Someone Somewhere combines traditional handcrafts with contemporary products to empower Mexican artisans.
1 Jun 16
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Ingestible origami robot can patch a wound from the inside
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Product Design
Researchers have developed a tiny magnetically controlled robot with dozens of healthcare applications.
31 May 16
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L CARD: A lung cancer “breathalyzer”
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Product Design
The tiny device can detect whether or not a patient has lung cancer.
31 May 16
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