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The Theory of Everything
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INCLUSIVITY - NOT A BUZZWORD, AN IMPERATIVE!
2 Nov 20
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With great design comes great responsibility: antenna 2020 looks to the future
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Urban & Landscape Design
10 design graduates from the world’s leading design schools took to the antenna 2020 virtual stage as part of Dutch Design Week.
2 Nov 20
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Flowing Garments reimagines textile waste as a building material in Bangladesh
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Design Thinking
Landscape designer Fengjiao Ge looks into how to recycle textiles to save the tonnes of waste that goes from our wardrobes to the landfill in her thesis proje
26 Oct 20
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Canadian industrial designer creates tetrapods that mimic mangroves and protect coastlines from erosion
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Industrial designer Xavier Ouellet has developed a system of floating tetrapods that protects coastline from erosion.
26 Oct 20
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Mimica Touch is a tactile label that combats food waste by providing accurate feedback on when food is spoiling
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London-based industrial designer Solveiga Pakštaitė is working hard to combat the massive issue of food waste.
23 Oct 20
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How to capture the smell of Nairobi’s slums in a rose-scented perfume
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Information Design
Artist, designer and writer Coltrane McDowell is interested in telling stories.
23 Oct 20
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Danielle Begnaud looks at how to involve children in the process of designing toys
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Her project Brain Bridges explores how toy design might change when children are considered partners in the design process, instead of just end users.
23 Oct 20
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How surgical robots are assisting with surgery
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Interaction Design
A collaboration between Wyss Associate Faculty member Robert Woodand and Robotics engineer Hiroyuki Suzuki.
22 Oct 20
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ASMR: The new wave of sound therapy
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Creative Economy
Here we discover the sensation of ASMR.
22 Oct 20
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Healing Health Cafe's
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Creative Economy
Pop-in and rest pit-stops are urban sanctuaries for city slickers.
22 Oct 20
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The new digital health clinic for women
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"We’ll deliver your medication quickly and discreetly to your front door. You’ll open your treatment in the comfort of your own home."
22 Oct 20
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The virtual community for mental health and care in a game form
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Created by designer-researcher Bianca Carague, Bump Galaxy is a virtual community for mental health and care in a game world prototyped on Minecraft.
22 Oct 20
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The mind-blowingNeuralink
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Interaction Design
The first neural implant that will let you control a computer or mobile device anywhere you go.
22 Oct 20
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Meet the first smart case that records your birth control pill intake to keep you on track
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Product Design
“Up to 80% of women on the pill miss at least one per month, so we designed a smart system that tracks the pill and sends reminders until it’s taken.”
22 Oct 20
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The S.A.D. SUN ALLERGY DIARIES
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SiiGii designs concept-driven body extensions
22 Oct 20
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How the CRISPR gene-editing tool became a scientific breakthrough
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Illustrating how to edit genes - Emmanuelle Charpentier and Jennifer Doudna are this year’s Nobel Laureates for Chemistry
22 Oct 20
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South African architecture student looks at how to reimagine dangerous alleyways in a Johannesburg suburb as pedestrian streets
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Architecture & Interiors
Joshil Naran's Honours project is named “in-between, back-to-back & front-to-front”.
22 Oct 20
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Universal typeface Braille Neue builds new connections between the sighted and visually impaired
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Designer Kosuke Takahashi has created a font that enables visually impaired and sighted people to read from the same page and connect with each other.
20 Oct 20
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Plus Minus 25: Melting curtains that could regulate room temperature
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Anna Koppmann and Esmée Willemsen are working with old technologies to create a brand-new heating and cooling system for homes.
20 Oct 20
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Maternity care project Birth Reborn looks to support black mothers in America
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Design graduate, Victoria Ayo focused her final project Birth Reborn on creating better maternity care for black mothers in America.
18 Oct 20
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How to treat the HIV epidemic: RCA graduate Ricky Stoch addresses treatment adherence
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Royal College of Art graduate Ricky Stoch created a system called FebriSol that aims to solve the problem of treatment adherence.
18 Oct 20
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#antenna2020 Interview: Ricky stoch
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Design Thinking
"I don't distinguish between my design ethics and personal ethics, I just try my best to act with integrity."
17 Oct 20
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antenna 2020: The young, the curious, the brave
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Design Thinking
Initiated by Design Indaba and Dutch Design Week, antenna takes the pulse of the new design.
17 Oct 20
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A playground built to scale for children
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Urban & Landscape Design
Studio Ossidiana realized Horismos in tinted concrete with different finishes, adding a tactile element to this labyrinth-like structure.
15 Oct 20
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