Kate Walker | Design Indaba

High school students design snap-together homeless shelter

HUT is a micro-shelter designed as a low-cost, easy-to-assemble solution to homelessness. >
Ending world hunger is a matter of logistics

Transfernation is an online platform that aims to tackle hunger by redistributing food waste. >
Free Wi-Fi in exchange for keeping the air clean

Amsterdam-based startup TreeWiFi designs birdhouses that offer free internet when the air quality improves. >
Social enterprise designs Kenyan running shoe

Enda is a running shoe inspired by Kenya’s legacy of running champions >
Robotic arms and a bit of lycra can change the way concrete is used in design

Designers develop a method of fabric-casting concrete into dynamic architectural forms >
China's futuristic bus allows cars to pass underneath its carriages

The Transit Explore Bus was designed to tackle extreme traffic congestion and pollution in China. >
Flood House explores a new typology of responsive architecture

Matthew Butcher’s Flood House looks at how future dwellings should be adapted to co-exist with their native environments. >
School on Wheels brings education to impoverished children

A bus remodelled to become a mobile classroom for children with no access to school facilities in Mumbai. >
Spherical garden rolls around looking for sunlight and water

Interactive Architecture Lab creates a mobile garden that thinks for itself. >
Plastic recycling initiative supports waste pickers in developing countries

Amsterdam-based group Reflow drive a socially responsible 3D printing community >
21st Century farming technology to address global food crisis

Urban Produce is a sustainable vertical farming system that looks toward the future of agriculture. >
Now they’re 3D printing bones

Researchers at Johns Hopkins University have developed a new material that can be used in bone replacement surgery. >
A farming and recreational space designed to bring a community together

Bottle Seedling House is a multipurpose shelter that aims to improve the quality of life for a farming community affected by HIV/AIDS. >
Portable surgical sterilisation suitcase

Eniware is a new sterilisation system that aims to have a positive impact on health care in developing countries. >
Budapest-based brand NewFoldr champions cardboard electronics

NewFoldr aims to create a recyclable electronics movement to challenge the global e-waste issue >
Swawou School for Girls finally opens its doors to students in Sierra Leone

Orkidstudio unveils its free-education school in eastern Sierra Leone after the Ebola outbreak put the project on hold. >
Sundial installation 3D-printed with sheets of plastic

Contemporary sundial uses solar data to change shape according to the natural trajectory of the sun. >
Interactive technology could change the way we play ping-pong

German designer Thomas Mayer helps players improve their ping-pong game with realtime performance visuals. >
The world’s first 3D-printed wheelchair that can be customised on an app

Layer is soon to launch its new 3D-printed wheelchair, made to fit each individual’s body and disability. >
A parachute that turns into a shelter for refugees or disaster victims

Portugal-based STUDIOMUDA design a prefabricated shelter that can be easily deployed out of an airplane. >
Traffic lights designed for distracted walkers

The German city of Augsburg installs pavement lights to ensure the safety of pedestrians distracted by their phones. >
Bicycle system designed for heavy duty, urban cargo delivery

Carla Cargo is a zero-emission and more agile alternative to the traditional delivery van. >
Earthquake-resistant orphanage in Haiti is the start of a greater social initiative

Ti Kay Là was built to house, support and educate street children in Haiti who are living in extreme poverty and without shelter. >
Floating solar panels take to the seas

Heliofloat solar farm is designed to generate clean energy out at sea and preserve water in arid regions. >

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