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A massive eco-village with a utopian take on sustainable living
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Agroecologist Amlankusum’s conceptual designs combines natural elements with controlled construction to create a 36-storey paradise.
7 Mar 16
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Global artists recreate monsters thought up by children
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Art & Photography
The Monster Project facilitates art with children by reimagining their monsters.
7 Mar 16
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Maheder Gebremedhin: Traditional Ethiopian architecture and modern radio shows
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Architecture & Interiors
Addis Ababa-born architect Maheder Gebremedhin looks at where architecture is and where it’s going in his city.
7 Mar 16
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The creative chef, Jasper Udink ten Cate releases his first cookbook
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Food Design
The Creative Chef cookbook shows home cooks how to turn everyday meals into mind-blowing dining experiences.
4 Mar 16
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Urban Farm Pod: A plant growing sphere in urban spaces
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Urban & Landscape Design
Terreform ONE’s Plug-In-Ecology project brings vertical farming to urban spaces.
4 Mar 16
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Wearable technology for the visually impaired
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Product Design
Wearable technology from Cairo describes oncoming objects to its users
4 Mar 16
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Shape-shifting textile cloud can change sound quality in a room
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Product Design
BLOOM is a knitted origami surface that can alter the ambient acoustics of public spaces.
4 Mar 16
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MFA’s #techstyle: Fashion that moves, interacts and adapts
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Interaction Design
The Museum of Fine Arts’ #techstyle exhibition takes a look at where fashion design is headed thanks to its relationship with technology.
4 Mar 16
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Judith Kaine: Taking art to the streets of Rwanda
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Art & Photography
Kurema Kureba Kwiga uses street art to tackle social issues and expose ordinary Rwandans to the creativity of its artists.
4 Mar 16
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Saphon Energy creates new wind-harnessing technology
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Product Design
This Tunisian startup didn’t reinvent the wind turbine; instead, they created a new technology.
3 Mar 16
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Teledisko: The 60s nightlife experience in a phone booth
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Design Thinking
Teledisko is a phone booth upcycled into the world’s smallest nightclub.
3 Mar 16
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Candyfloss characters in comical GIFs with a feminist touch
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Graphic Design & Illustration
Inspired by Instagram artists, Swedish art director Sofia Hydman creates GIFs depicting chubby, confident girls.
3 Mar 16
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Award-winning architecture student Alfie Hope imagines a city floating on bamboo
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Architecture & Interiors
Alfie Hope champions water-based urbanism with his proposal to grow floating land with bamboo.
3 Mar 16
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Six things you might not know about Airbnb and its co-founder Joe Gebbia
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Design Thinking
Airbnb's co-founder Joe Gebbia will be speaking at Design Indaba 2017. Here are some things you might not know about this peer-to-peer home-rental start up.
3 Mar 16
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A garden that stretches across Africa
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Urban & Landscape Design
The Great Green Wall of Africa will be the biggest man-made marvel in the world once completed.
3 Mar 16
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Zami Life: A stool for smart sitting in an age of inactivity
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Product Design
The Zami smart stool promotes healthy living through innovative furniture design.
3 Mar 16
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Free community skatepark in Ethiopia
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Urban & Landscape Design
A non-profit organisation is building skateparks in rural areas around the globe.
2 Mar 16
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Miniature art scenes inspired by film
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Product Design
This artist forgets about time when she creates her painstakingly detailed dioramas.
2 Mar 16
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A moss wall that creates clean, green energy
Next Generation
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Product Design
Graduate Elena Mitrofanova has designed a modular system that generates electricity from moss.
2 Mar 16
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Concept artist merges Maasai warriors with sci-fi tech
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Graphic Design & Illustration
Rodrigo Galdino imagines what it would look like if traditional Maasai warriors integrated alien tech into their culture.
2 Mar 16
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NASA invites public to send art to space
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Design Thinking
NASA’s upcoming mission to a near-Earth asteroid will take with it artworks submitted by explorers from around the world.
2 Mar 16
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Nursery Fields Forever imagines a preschool where kids learn how to farm
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Architecture & Interiors
Rome-based design team wins an architecture award for its new age urban farming school for children.
2 Mar 16
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Agriculture meets architecture in France's urban farm tower
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Design Activism
Built like a staircase, ABF-lab's urban farming structure aims to raise awareness and encourage better living and social responsibility.
1 Mar 16
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Jaun van Wyk: Bringing the art back into architecture
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Urban & Landscape Design
Cape Town based architect Jaun van Wyk plans to restore architecture to an art form.
1 Mar 16
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