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Hanif Kara

Hanif Kara is a structural engineer, Design Director of AKT II as well as Professor in Practice at Harvard GSD. >

8 Nov 19
Scientists and artists are reviving lost scents

Design Frontiers > Art & Photography / Creative Economy / Design Activism / Design Thinking / Interaction Design / Music & Sound Design

In a collaborative effort between artists and scientists, smell molecules from extinct flowers were extracted and their aromas recreated. >

19 Jul 19
The Human Utility: How a Twitter discussion started a movement

Design News > Information Design / Interaction Design

What started out as a Twitter discussion soon became a way to address the water affordability and access issue in the United States. >

26 Sep 18
Smart tampons could be the future of home diagnostics

Design News > Design Activism / Product Design

Researchers are creating a tampon testing system that helps women monitor their own health and fertility. >

7 Apr 16
Human tissue, smart textiles could follow these 4D-printed flowers

Design Frontiers > Design Thinking / Product Design

Researchers take 3D printing to the next level with printed objects that mimic the way plants move in nature. >

2 Feb 16
Paying attention to the Black in Design

Inside View > Architecture & Interiors / Design Thinking

Students at the Harvard Graduate School of Design are putting on a conference to recognise the contribution of African Americans to the design field. >

7 Oct 15
The bull is not dead

Q&A > Food Design

Although the elBulli restaurant has closed, Ferran Adrià is only just getting started. He talks to us about the future, broadening his audience and creativity. >

16 Nov 11
Ben Fry

Ben Fry takes complex data and visualises it in an aesthetically pleasing and easily understandable way. >

20 Dec 10
The good half house

Profiling > Architecture & Interiors

Elemental in Chile is doing more than half-heartedly answering the question of social housing. Alejandro Aravena talks to Nadine Botha. >

1 Nov 10
Kick off to power

Design News > Design Thinking

A soccer ball that harnesses kinetic energy and works as a mini generator could changes many lives in developing countries. >

23 Jun 10
Ferran Adrià to teach at Harvard

Design News > Food Design

Culinary genius and past Design Indaba speaker, Ferran Adrià will soon swop his apron for a lab coat. >

12 Apr 10
The essential Alejandro Aravena at DI2010

Festival News > Architecture & Interiors

You’ll be forgiven for associating Alejandro Aravena’s architectural designs with the primitive. >

15 Dec 09
Magic man

Profiling > Architecture & Interiors

Architect David Adjaye is a poster-boy for a new generation of designer/architects who pluck at the nexus of media and celebrity. >

1 Nov 04

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