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adidas and fashion designer Rich Mnisi unveil sizzling performance wear
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30 Jan 22
Make it snappy
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Exploring how the built environment might respond to the harsh conditions of climate change.
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21 Jan 22
Cakes and oil
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Four students from The Design Village in India have found a sustainable solution to packaging edible oil
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14 Jan 22
Woodkid
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Driving a car powered by discarded wood, across forgotten parts of Germany, is performance art with a difference.
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14 Jan 22
In the raw
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Introducing the award-winning zero-waste Ermis chair
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30 Dec 21
From kelp to catwalk
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Commercial-scale seaweed-based yarn can transform fashion
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30 Dec 21
Composting made even easier, all thanks to No Waste Challenge winner, Hagamos Composta
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We chat with founder Gerardo Montes De Oca Sierra about making waste management more accessible
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6 Oct 21
#DI Alumni Yuri Suzuki and Harry Pearce create anti-discrimination campaign ID for #WeThe15
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#WeThe15 highlights how 15% of the global population lives with disability
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3 Sep 21
#DI Alumni unite: Selly Rabe Kane tackles pollution in a short film for Little Sun
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Little Sun starts a new climate conversation
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20 Aug 21
No Waste Challenge winner, Clothing Loop swaps Fast Fashion for sustainability
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“I haven’t bought any new clothes in over 13 years and that’s going fine.”
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16 Aug 21
Sruli Recht’s sci-fi footwear for a post-traumatic future
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The climate-conscious collection, Damage, solves for a dystopic future
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16 Aug 21
From pineapple waste to period products
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Nyungu Afrika simultaneously combats period poverty and pollution
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9 Aug 21
No Waste Challenge winner CarbonCraft is transforming construction
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Carbon Tiles reuse waste to provide eco-friendly building materials
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2 Aug 21
No Waste Challenge winners announced!
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Sixteen global waste-busters awarded top honours by What Design Can Do.
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16 Jul 21
Denouncing plastic, hair as art, African spirituality & the Bouroullec Brothers’s latest…
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Design for people, by people.
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7 Jul 21
Spoon Archaeology examines plastic cutlery, hopefully, as a relic of the past
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Kai Linke and Peter Eckart put 20 years of plastic cutlery on museum display.
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28 Jun 21
#DI Alumnus Snøhetta takes Green Building One Step further by Developing Sustainable Concrete
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Norwegian studio Snøhetta’s pioneering new forms of concrete will change the urban landscape for the better.
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14 Jun 21
Designer Agnieszka Białek’s Enclaves on Vistula River is a Peaceful but Engaging Alternative to WFH
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Organically inspired, but using high-tech techniques, Enclaves is a new co-working design.
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31 May 21
Every day is Africa Day
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Africa’s Standout Creatives Highlight the Continent’s Creativity
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26 May 21
Nendo’s Oki Sato’s N02 Chair Embodies the Future-Forward Ethos of Fritz Hansen
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A “Japandi” triumph, the Fritz Hansen N02 is made of recycled household waste.
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24 May 21
CAKE Electric Motorcycles joins Forces with Sustainability Partners to Produce an Anti-Poaching Bike
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Innovation and collaboration come together to combat poaching.
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24 May 21
EFFEKT Designs a Community where Trees and Houses Live in Harmony
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A progressive Nature Village in Denmark proposes a new approach to housing.
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24 May 21
With 19 Chairs, Art and Charity Collide in a Celebration of Seating by a Range of #DI Speakers
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19 Chairs challenges design stars to create one-of-a-kind custom chairs for COVID-19 charity auction.
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17 May 21
Waterlight Converts Water into Energy with its Innovative Seawater-Powered Lamp
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An innovation designed to serve communities with no access to electricity, WaterLight makes use of an available natural resource.
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3 May 21
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