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The Algae Dome imagines a future of architecture-powered food
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Food Design
Where sustainable food design and public architecture intersect.
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14 Jul 19
Could this convenient bug harvesting design make insect-based diets popular?
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Living Farms is being spearheaded by Austrian multidisciplinary designer, Katharina Unger.
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12 Jul 19
Caroline Smeenk makes it easier for rural women to independently monitor their health
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"Antenna helps you broaden your horizons and scope of what you see as design."
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11 Jul 19
Is it possible for childbearing to happen outside the human body?
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Billie Rehwald talks about her project Ectogenesis, which is looking at using design as a tool to consider this possible reality.
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11 Jul 19
How floating homes will help people in flood-prone countries
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Dream Homes is a project by Dundee University in which they co-designed with local Bangladeshis to create resilient floating homes.
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8 Jul 19
Six designers tackle sustainability from food, waste and even death
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These Design Indaba 2019 speakers are working to design more sustainable methods and products.
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2 Jul 19
Durban students initiate a space to foster more campus interaction
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The Level Six project is the first student-led project guided by professionals to come out of Durban University of Technology.
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25 Jun 19
Using empathic design to save the lives of pregnant women
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How Caroline Smeenk and Dahabo Adi Galgallo are saving the lives of mothers and their unborn children, on opposite sides of the world.
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24 Jun 19
Students explore death through a video game and our fascination with fake goods
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We spotlight the work of two graduates from the University of the Underground which was started by Dr Nelly Ben-Hayoun.
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20 Jun 19
Are you the future of South Africa’s design industry?
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The hunt for South Africa’s hottest young emerging creatives has begun. Apply now!
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20 Jun 19
How these Ghanaian developers are creating awareness around e-waste
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Ghanaian game developers, Enter Africa, are creating a game that focuses on the issues of safety and sanitation surrounding e-waste dumps.
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19 Jun 19
Applications for African Crossroads 2019 are now open!
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Hivos is looking for content proposals from artists, entrepreneurs, chefs, designers, researchers, to imagine the future of African cities.
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19 Jun 19
Connextyle is providing multi-sensory healing for stroke patients
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Inspired by the ancient Japanese technique of Kintsugi, the Connextyle shirt is a rehabilitation garment that helps stroke patients regain their muscle use.
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17 Jun 19
How fashion adapted to climate change – in the Little Ice Age
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People see global warming as a modern phenomenon, but fashion has a long history of responding to climate change.
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14 Jun 19
Design Indaba launches the Future Cities Residency
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Paloma Strelitz is the first resident of the Design Indaba Future Cities Residency.
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14 Jun 19
Celine Semaan wants to solve fashion's sustainability problem
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The culture and climate thought leader is working with everyone from the UN to students to tackle fashion's sustainability problem.
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4 Jun 19
Drawing water out of thin air
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How Majik Water tapped a water source that is all around us.
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29 May 19
Kenyan jeweller uses natural minerals to tell her story
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Ami Doshi Shah’s sculptural jewellery pieces tell the story both of Kenya’s intricate past and the country's captivating natural beauty.
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27 May 19
Roy Allela invents tech that translates sign language into audio
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The Kenyan inventor was inspired by his deaf niece to create Sign-IO, a glove that interprets sign language into speech.
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27 May 19
Freyja Sewell is designing cognitive training technology for the future
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The Royal College of Art graduate’s work focuses on meditation and developing technology for the mind.
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23 May 19
The industrialisation of the natural world
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Speculations on the future of biodiversity after the sixth mass extinction.
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22 May 19
Adebayo Oke-Lawal is rethinking masculinity in African culture
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The Nigerian designer’s brand Orange Culture embraces those who do not fit in and celebrates their individuality.
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22 May 19
Blair Imani is writing Herstory
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Imani’s book is shining a light both on modern feminists and on marginalised people who are making a difference in the world.
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21 May 19
Shaina Garfield on how we can benefit the Earth after death
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She shared how her project Leaves proposes a sustainable coffin that will help the body decompose naturally.
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16 May 19
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