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This shelter is a response to forced immigration

Design News • 7 May 18 • Sponsored Content

An eco-friendly modular shelter for displaced immigrants created by design firm DMOA. >
Will AI be our new co-dependent relationship?

Design Frontiers • 7 May 18 • Sponsored Content

Nicole Pérez’s annoying robots ponder the future of automated intimacy. >
Students explore bamboo as sustainable alternative to conventional building

Design News • 4 May 18 • Sponsored Content

Combining traditional weaving techniques with digital design. >
Brynjar Sigurðarson on the relationship between objects and stories

Talks • Duration: 00:05:36 • 3 May 18 • Sponsored Content

The Design Indaba #GlobalGrad alumnus has been awarded with the Torsten and Wanja Söderberg Prize 2018. >
Learn how these wearables serve the hearing impaired

Design Frontiers • 3 May 18 • Sponsored Content

"How can the deaf and hearing-impaired community experience music, without actually hearing it?" >
These Senegalese rappers found an ingenious way to report on politics

Video Interviews • Duration: 00:01:53 • 3 May 18 • Sponsored Content

“There is a long tradition in hip hop here [Senegal], particularly hip hop being political." >
This is the world's first biodegradable home pregnancy test

Design News • 2 May 18 • Sponsored Content

The lightweight, ultra-thin invention can be sent in an envelope and biodegrades in three months. >
An ostomy bag for health, beauty and function

Design News • 2 May 18 • Sponsored Content

We look back at some impactful design from a UK graduate who sought to combat stigma in health care. >
A photo series on colourism in Haiti, the first black republic

Design News • 1 May 18 • Sponsored Content

“They used to put me down so much because I was this dark and now, I fucking love myself.” >
Sunu Gonera on finding his voice, afrofuturism and making heroes out of ordinary people

Talks • Duration: 00:36:37 • 1 May 18 • Sponsored Content

In this opening talk of Design Indaba 2018 that brought the audience to its feet, the filmmaker talks about his career high and lows. >
Plastic-infused concrete could cut cement industry’s carbon emissions

Design News • 30 Apr 18 • Sponsored Content

After water, concrete is the second most widely used material on Earth. >
This design festival is stitching together India's design community

Design Frontiers • 30 Apr 18 • Sponsored Content

"It was one of its kind in the Indian design history. I’m not aware of any other festivals organised on such a massive scale." >
This device can keep opened wine fresh for 12 days

Design News • 29 Apr 18 • Sponsored Content

“It was my urge to solve the problem through design, coupled with my love of wine, that first prompted me to create Eto,” says the designer. >
Burkinabe women are channeling the spirit of a 12th century princess

Design News • 29 Apr 18 • Sponsored Content

Burkinabe women working in careers traditionally dominated by men, all draw inspiration and courage from one source: Princess Yennenga. >
FrailTea analyses kettle grip data to monitor the health of the elderly

Next Generation • 28 Apr 18 • Sponsored Content

Callum Smith’s project FrailTea uses grip data from a kettle to monitor the health of elderly people and the state of their of frailty. >
This warning system could detect a drought earlier than ever before

Design Frontiers • 28 Apr 18 • Sponsored Content

Here's how MIT researchers are using the leaf surface to detect drought conditions. >
Aboubakar Fofana on the hypocrisy of the fashion industry

Design News • 27 Apr 18 • Sponsored Content

The textile designer, artist and natural dyer calls out the trend forecasters and designers to take more responsibility. >
How these Barcelona creatives are helping brands to connect more with people

Inside View • 27 Apr 18 • Sponsored Content

"We help them increase profit, because they genuinely connect to their users and customers with our services that address empathy.” >
The Freedom Day reading list

Design News • 27 Apr 18 • Sponsored Content

These projects highlight the complicated matter of South Africa's "freedom" through the eyes of creatives. >
Grigri Pixel is uniting creatives on two continents through urban interventions

Design Frontiers • 27 Apr 18 • Sponsored Content

The projects, which brings together African and European artists, was recently selected in the culture category for the FAD design prize. >
George Gibbens is using design to tackle South Africa's social problems

Design News • 26 Apr 18 • Sponsored Content

The industrial designer has designed a VR device to help the visually impaired, a portable machine to fight shack fires and more. >
$Taiwanese designers and students from Tunghai University, Yu-Chi Wang and Yu Man's bone fracture fixation board - BoneAid$

Taiwanese students design foldable bone-fracture boards for disaster relief

Design News • 26 Apr 18 • Sponsored Content

Unlike traditional bone rehabilitation boards, BoneAid can be applied to multiple body parts with different folding methods. >
ECAL's Milo Keller on the changing face of photography

Inside View • 26 Apr 18 • Sponsored Content

“We believe that, as an art school, ECAL needs to develop the creative potential offered by new technologies by embracing and responding to their impact.” >
Edel Rodriguez on how the South African protest art influenced his work

Design News • 26 Apr 18 • Sponsored Content

Rodriguez has a noted history of creating irreverent, illustrated depictions of the controversial US President Donald Trump. >

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