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Studio [D] Tale on design activism and innovation within existing systems
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Architecture & Interiors
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Design Activism
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Urban & Landscape Design
Social impact designers Studio [D] Tale talk about innovating within informal economies and interventions in existing, sometimes backward, systems.
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23 May 16
21st Century farming technology to address global food crisis
Design News
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Urban & Landscape Design
Urban Produce is a sustainable vertical farming system that looks toward the future of agriculture.
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18 May 16
Jeanne Gang: The architecture of policing in America
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Architecture & Interiors
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Urban & Landscape Design
Founder of Studio Gang, Jeanne Gang talks about how architecture can help address police brutality in America.
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12 May 16
Sundial installation 3D-printed with sheets of plastic
Design News
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Urban & Landscape Design
Contemporary sundial uses solar data to change shape according to the natural trajectory of the sun.
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10 May 16
Traffic lights designed for distracted walkers
Design News
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Urban & Landscape Design
The German city of Augsburg installs pavement lights to ensure the safety of pedestrians distracted by their phones.
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5 May 16
Panama’s waste is now a village of plastic bottles
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Architecture & Interiors
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Urban & Landscape Design
Isla Colón in Bocas Del Toro, Panama will be home to an entire village constructed out of recycled plastic bottles.
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25 Apr 16
Skyfarm could be the future of urban agriculture
Design News
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Urban & Landscape Design
Stirk Harbour + Partners’ vertical farming tower poses a solution to the global food crisis.
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20 Apr 16
The UK’s first transparent solar bus shelter
Design News
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Urban & Landscape Design
Energy-generating bus shelter sets the standard for solar glass infrastructure in city spaces.
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12 Apr 16
Pressed peat makes for ideal building blocks
Design Frontiers
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Architecture & Interiors
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Product Design
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Urban & Landscape Design
The natural ability of dried peat makes these bioblocks ideal for regulating the interior climates of spaces.
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31 Mar 16
Pedestrian and bicycle tunnel opens underneath Amsterdam Central station
Design Frontiers
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Urban & Landscape Design
A beautiful and advanced tunnel for cyclists and pedestrians has opened underneath Amsterdam.
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25 Mar 16
Cape Town set to build its first blind-friendly outdoor park
Design News
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African Design
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Urban & Landscape Design
A park specially designed to accommodate those with impaired vision - the first of its kind in Cape Town.
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24 Mar 16
Bicycle path doubles as solar panel
Product Spotlight
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Creative Economy
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Urban & Landscape Design
Solar panels fitted into bike path generate more electricity than expected.
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17 Mar 16
Interactive installations turn Toronto's beaches into winter destinations
Design Frontiers
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Architecture & Interiors
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Urban & Landscape Design
Toronto’s beach goers are encouraged to hit the seaside throughout the year.
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15 Mar 16
Counterspace: Architects investigate Johannesburg’s abandoned mine dumps
Video Interviews
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Architecture & Interiors
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Urban & Landscape Design
Collaborative studio, Counterspace investigates the meaning of lost and found spaces in South Africa’s city of gold.
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14 Mar 16
Perfect man-made waves
Design Frontiers
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Product Design
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Urban & Landscape Design
Kelly Slater's high-performance, man-made wave pool has been met with scepticism in the industry.
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8 Mar 16
Urban Farm Pod: A plant growing sphere in urban spaces
Design News
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Design Activism
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Urban & Landscape Design
Terreform ONE’s Plug-In-Ecology project brings vertical farming to urban spaces.
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4 Mar 16
A garden that stretches across Africa
Design Frontiers
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African Design
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Creative Economy
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Design Activism
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Urban & Landscape Design
The Great Green Wall of Africa will be the biggest man-made marvel in the world once completed.
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3 Mar 16
Free community skatepark in Ethiopia
Design Frontiers
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Architecture & Interiors
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Design Activism
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Urban & Landscape Design
A non-profit organisation is building skateparks in rural areas around the globe.
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2 Mar 16
Jaun van Wyk: Bringing the art back into architecture
Design Frontiers
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Art & Photography
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Urban & Landscape Design
Cape Town based architect Jaun van Wyk plans to restore architecture to an art form.
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1 Mar 16
Phone booth gets a green makeover
Design News
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Urban & Landscape Design
Artist transforms a London phone booth into a botanical box to call for the greening up of city spaces.
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1 Mar 16
Greening Madrid to reduce the impact of climate change
Design News
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Urban & Landscape Design
Sustainable design firm Arup devises a plan to regulate the greening of infrastructure and buildings in Spain’s capital city.
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24 Feb 16
Modular homes that have a positive impact on their owners and the environment
Product Spotlight
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Architecture & Interiors
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Product Design
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Urban & Landscape Design
These prefabricated homes are designed and built to generate more energy than they consume.
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23 Feb 16
Grass-based condoms are the latest innovation in safe sex
Design News
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Design Thinking
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Urban & Landscape Design
A group of researchers at the University of Queensland are using a native Australian grass as the key component in designing thinner and stronger condoms.
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15 Feb 16
The Lake
THE LAKE is a new LP-sized free bimonthly publication available nationwide at selected outlets.
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11 Feb 16
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