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A Digital Drum is bringing computer skills to the youth in rural Uganda

Design Frontiers • 15 May 18 • Sponsored Content

Design without Borders has developed a way to bridge the information gap between urban and rural youth of Uganda. >
Rwanda-based photographer Chris Schwagga on photography as language

African Report • 15 May 18 • Sponsored Content

Burundian photographer Chris Schwagga uses photography as his language – and, just like words, an image can be very ambiguous. >
Conscious fashion: Amna Elshandaweely’s take on fashion and revolution

Talks • Duration: 00:19:06 • 15 May 18 • Sponsored Content

The Cairo designer makes a moving case for social impact with something as simple as the clothes we wear. >
The WikiCell: Nature-inspired edible packaging

Design News • 14 May 18 • Sponsored Content

WikiFoods aims to eliminate the overuse of plastic in food packaging. >
On landscape architecture as the lifeblood of a city

Video Interviews • Duration: 00:03:36 • 14 May 18 • Sponsored Content

Cees van der Veeken gives us his take on the unscripted nature of landscape design at the inaugural Design Commons. >
Letters from a Birmingham Girl

Design News • 11 May 18 • Sponsored Content

A documentary about intersectionality, identity and family. >
Go ahead and take your selfies girl

Design News • 11 May 18 • Sponsored Content

Body-positive artist Zola Lovette is the creative behind a series of illustrations celebrating bathroom selfies. >
Eddy Kamuanga Ilunga celebrates Congo's Mangbetu culture

Design News • 10 May 18 • Sponsored Content

A dying warrior culture is remembered through the modern paintings created by this Congolese artist. >
Playgrounds that feed war-torn Syria's kids in more ways than one

Design News • 10 May 18 • Sponsored Content

It’s a healthy space where children are taught how to plant, grow and harvest fruits and vegetables. >
How will climate change affect our eating habits in 30 years time?

Design News • 10 May 18 • Sponsored Content

Researchers and scientists say we'll need to intensify the use of drought-tolerant food sources such as seaweed and more. >
Neri Oxman wins at Cooper Hewitt 2018 National Design Awards

Design News • 9 May 18 • Sponsored Content

“All ten of this year’s winners present a powerful design perspective and body of work that is at once inclusive and deeply personal..." >
Lebo Mashile on her life and how poetry and books became a lifeline

Talks • Duration: 00:28:41 • 9 May 18 • Sponsored Content

“Criss-crossing, jumping identities has been the story of my life.” >
Caroline Smeenk on designing products to help pregnant women who can't access hospitals

Next Generation • Duration: 00:10:32 • 8 May 18 • Sponsored Content

"17% of rural Canadians live over 2 hours away from their nearest hospital." >
Ukubutha: A waste-to-energy solution to mobilise residents in informal settlements

Design News • 8 May 18 • Sponsored Content

Architecture graduate Nicole Moyo shares her idea on how informal communities can create their own water, energy and waste systems. >
Childish Gambino forcefully unpacks race and violence in America

Design News • 7 May 18 • Sponsored Content

The multitalented artist’s new music video delivers a striking social commentary. >
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.” >

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