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Why wastewater?

Design News • 20 Mar 17 • Sponsored Content

World Water Day 2017 will look at the way we manage the precious resource during every part of the water cycle. >
Buddibox: A community-driven courier network in South Africa

Design News • 20 Mar 17 • Sponsored Content

This organisation tackles local unemployment by facilitating small-scale courier services. >
Arch for Arch celebrates Archbishop Tutu and the freedom of South Africa

Design News • 20 Mar 17 • Sponsored Content

It will be launched on 7 October, 2017 to coincide with The Arch's 86th birthday. >
The physicist who folds

Design Frontiers • 17 Mar 17 • Sponsored Content

Physicist Robert lang left NASA to practice origami. Great Big Story tells us why. >
Stories of feral children told through photography

Design News • 17 Mar 17 • Sponsored Content

This photographer sheds light on the cruelty faced by children as they are abandoned by society absolutely. >
A conceptualised take on gendered domestic bliss

Design News • 17 Mar 17 • Sponsored Content

Photographer Patty Carroll’s Anonymous Women addresses our gendered view of domesticity. >
The Iota Project: blending bespoke furniture creation with social upliftment

Design Frontiers • 17 Mar 17 • Sponsored Content

These beautiful handmade objects are creating jobs for unemployed women. >
A look into the volume of the internet

Design News • Duration: 01:22 • 16 Mar 17 • Sponsored Content

How much do you know about the design of the worldwide web? >
Data Oruwari: Master of the micropen

Design News • 16 Mar 17 • Sponsored Content

“Creativity is my religion, so I’m always finding new ways to bring things to life.” >
South African photographer shortlisted in 2017 Sony World Photography Awards

Design News • 16 Mar 17 • Sponsored Content

Cole Ndelu’s arresting entry was inspired by the #FeesMustFall movement. >
Using technology to reimagine the documentation of human suffering

Design News • 16 Mar 17 • Sponsored Content

Photographer Richard Mosse’s latest work opens at the Barbican. >
RiverBlue

Design News • Duration: 02:00 • 15 Mar 17 • Sponsored Content

This film documents the unspoken cost of the global fashion industry. >
Eco-friendly digs for the modern nomad

Design News • 15 Mar 17 • Sponsored Content

The University of Porto (UPTEC), Portuguese startup Ecocubo created a prefab perfect for travellers. >
Nana Oforiatta – Ayim and the encyclopaedia of African art and culture

Design News • 15 Mar 17 • Sponsored Content

African art, advancements, innovations and magic all in one place. >
Reframing assumptions about ‘African art’

Next Generation • 15 Mar 17 • Sponsored Content

A young illustrator who celebrates international influences rather than confined fidelity. >
StelooLive: An experimental, electronic soundscape in Accra

Design News • 14 Mar 17 • Sponsored Content

In this live mix of fashion, art and sound, Accra-based trail-blazer Dj Steloo creates an experimental soundscape using glass, spoons and cans as instruments. >
A step closer to stretchable, soft electronics

Design Frontiers • 14 Mar 17 • Sponsored Content

Stanford University researchers use a soup additive to create the next generation of flexible electronics. >
Permanent Alien focuses on stories from the Asian American diaspora

Design Frontiers • 14 Mar 17 • Sponsored Content

“What if we made a comic featuring people who looked like us for people who look like us?” >
Falling: Representing depression through art

Design News • 13 Mar 17 • Sponsored Content

This artist depicts her longstanding experience of mental disorder in disturbing style. >
New subversive hip hop from Kenyan artist Muthoni Drummer Queen

Design News • 13 Mar 17 • Sponsored Content

Kenyan rapper and singer, Muthoni Drummer Queen’s latest song is hip-hop activism at its finest. >
The Scene of Childhood

Design News • 13 Mar 17 • Sponsored Content

Photographer Lionel Jusseret captures the magical ways that autistic children communicate. >
The carbon cost of your cocaine

Opinion • 13 Mar 17 • Sponsored Content

In the sixth edition of Do The Green Thing, the eco-warriors reveal the carbon footprint associated with every line of cocaine. >
This tampon packaging brings an important part of menstruation out of hiding

Design News • 13 Mar 17 • Sponsored Content

Thinx Tampons has gone where no tampon maker has dared go before. >
Young, fashionable and made in Dakar

Video Interviews • Duration: 00:03:22 • 10 Mar 17 • Sponsored Content

Three young fashion designers on being creative and running fashion houses in Dakar. >

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