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Project Nourished: A virtual reality experience that tricks your taste buds
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Interaction Design
Experience designer Jinsoo An’s Project Nourished creates virtual worlds where any food dream is possible.
12 Jul 16
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The world’s largest air purifier is touring the smoggy cities of China
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Urban & Landscape Design
Dutch designer Daan Roosegaarde’s Smog Free Tower (which works like a vacuum cleaner for dirty air) is travelling to China.
11 Jul 16
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Buildings made of bones
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Design Thinking
Cambridge researchers explore bone and eggshell as greener building materials of the future.
11 Jul 16
00:08:42
Basia Dzaman on the intersection of robotics and creativity
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Industrial Design
A Polish student from the School of Form in Poznań, Poland has designed a robotic arm that reimagines the lost art of snutki.
11 Jul 16
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Dune covered carpark doubles as flood defence
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Urban & Landscape Design
Named the Best Dutch Building of the Year in 2016, the Katwijk underground parking garage protects against future floods.
11 Jul 16
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Cow's milk plastic provides a natural, eco-friendly alternative
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Product Design
Using an extract from skimmed milk, Tessa Silva-Dawson created a durable alternative to harmful plastics.
11 Jul 16
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Interaction is more important than expensive tech, says experience designer Marcus Lyall
Design News
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Music & Sound Design
Marcus Lyall is behind some of the most spectacular shows of our time.
11 Jul 16
00:04:56
Image Merchants: W&N Studio and James Lavelle
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Art & Photography
We talk to DJ and artist James Lavelle and photographers Warren Du Preez and Nick Thorton Jones about the resurgence of craft and their various collaborations.
8 Jul 16
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Cozmo, the unpredictable robotic companion
Design News
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Product Design
Tech innovation company Anki have designed a tiny robotic companion like no other.
8 Jul 16
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Belgian artist creates art out of chickens
Design News
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Design Thinking
The Cosmopolitan Chicken project by Koen Vanmechelen uses the living materials collected during chicken cross-breeding to create art.
8 Jul 16
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Floris Kaayk: The Modular Body merges fact and fiction
Design Frontiers
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Film & Animation
Filmmaker Floris Kaayk toys with the public’s willingness to believe in the extraordinary.
8 Jul 16
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Design graduate shares her artful take on wood joinery using plastic bottles
Design News
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Product Design
Royal College of Art student Micaella Pedros unveils a resourceful technique of making furniture
8 Jul 16
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Sohofama: Farm to table in Hong Kong
Design News
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Food Design
At Sohofama restaurant urban farming meets Chinese comfort cuisine with a menu inspired by Chinese doctors and farmers.
7 Jul 16
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SunFire: A 3-part solution for solar cooking
Design News
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Design Activism
SA based company’s parabolic solar kits offer a sustainable cooking solution in rural or hard to reach areas of Africa.
7 Jul 16
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Home-grown sanitary pads help treat infections
Design News
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Product Design
Growing healthy bacteria in agar jelly, the pads are placed in front of the vagina to balance pH-levels.
7 Jul 16
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Addressing packaging waste one pizza box at a time
Design News
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Product Design
GreenBox is a reconfigurable pizza box designed for multiple use
7 Jul 16
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Portraiture encourages pride in a marginalised Bangladeshi community
Design News
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Art & Photography
Photographer Samsul Alam Helal’s portraits depict Bangladesh’s oppressed Dalit community.
7 Jul 16
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Photographer chronicles the people of Cape Town’s bustling public transport system
Design News
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Art & Photography
Photographer Mads Norgaard spent seven years photographing the people that make up the fringes of Cape Town.
6 Jul 16
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Amahlé’s Ndebele inspired jewellery for a European market
Product Spotlight
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Fashion & Jewellery Design
The Africa-inspired jewellery is designed to be sophisticated, yet durable enough for everyday use.
6 Jul 16
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Plastic-bag sculptures critique the treatment of the homeless
Design News
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Design Activism
Made in the silhouette of a person crouched on the street, the installation captures London’s response to homeless people.
6 Jul 16
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Producer Ibaaku on the avant-garde in Senegal
Design News
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Music & Sound Design
Alien Cartoon marked the birth of a new wave of music in Senegal. Its creator Ibaaku tells us about what inspired the album.
6 Jul 16
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The New Raw: Plastic waste as the new raw material
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Design Activism
A team of creatives based in Greece have launched a new initiative to combat the worst pollutant: plastic waste.
6 Jul 16
00:07:00
Francois Knoetze on representations of waste and consumer culture
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Art & Photography
Performance artist Francois Knoetze's trash monsters are a bleak and beautiful reflection of our consumer culture and the waste it creates.
5 Jul 16
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How is virtual reality changing the architecture industry?
Inside View
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Architecture & Interiors
We talk to the VR specialist at South African architecture and design practice SAOTA about how virtual reality and technology is changing design.
5 Jul 16
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