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Coolar: The electricity independent medical refrigerator

Design News • 28 Jul 16 • Sponsored Content

Coolar is a carbon-neutral solar-powered refrigerator specifically geared towards preserving vaccines and critical medical supplies. >
This high-tech Lunchbox helps feed hungry children in the world's poorest regions

Design News • 28 Jul 16 • Sponsored Content

With the Lunchbox, donating to a good cause is as easy as tapping a device. >
Floating Farm set to launch in Rotterdam

Design News • 28 Jul 16 • Sponsored Content

Waterfront dairy farm presents a sustainable approach to food production in cities. >
Frederico Gelli: Branding and the shared-value perspective

Video Interviews • Duration: 00:00:00 • 27 Jul 16 • Sponsored Content

For co-founder of Tátil Design Fred Gelli, branding can be both sustainable and of value to the consumer. >
Prize-winning African author questions accessibility in South Africa

Design News • 27 Jul 16 • Sponsored Content

Writer, filmmaker and photographer Lidudumalingani Mqombothi says his work is about the little people. >
Coffee waste transformed into a new superfood

Design News • 27 Jul 16 • Sponsored Content

CoffeeFlour creates jobs and builds communities by repurposing discarded coffee waste. >
Wake up, This is Joburg: A series that uncovers the peculiarities of the city

Design News • 27 Jul 16 • Sponsored Content

"Wake up, This is Joburg" is a series of 10 books that tells the stories of the peculiar urban inhabitants of Johannesburg. >
SHE: Sanitary pads made from discarded banana tree material

Design News • 27 Jul 16 • Sponsored Content

Sustainable Heath Enterprises (SHE) manufactures affordable sanitary pads made from banana tree fibres to keep Rwanda’s girls and women in school and work. >
Christophe Guberan on textiles that transform

Talks • Duration: 00:07:53 • 26 Jul 16 • Sponsored Content

Swiss product designer Christophe Guberan presents as one of Design Indaba's Global Graduates on active textiles. >
Bringing bones to life: Artist prototypes a hand grown out of stem cells

Design Frontiers • 26 Jul 16 • Sponsored Content

Artist Amy Karle’s Regenerative Reliquary is an open-source biotech project showcasing a human hand grown out of stem cells. >
The TransBrasil project explores gender identity through photography

Design News • 26 Jul 16 • Sponsored Content

Brazil is reportedly the world’s most violent place for transgender people. Jetmir Idrizi’s photo series documents the country's persecuted community. >
Senegalese village is thriving because of this one building

Design News • 26 Jul 16 • Sponsored Content

Thread Artists’ Residency and Cultural Centre fosters creativity and enterprise in a remote village in Senegal. >
The Mine Kafon Drone could rid the world of land mines in 10 years

Design Frontiers • 26 Jul 16 • Sponsored Content

Landmines kill or maim 10 civilians every day. Product designer Massoud Hassani’s latest drone innovation wants to solve the problem in our lifetime. >
The Visionary Kitchen creates dinners from food waste

Design News • 25 Jul 16 • Sponsored Content

The Visionary Kitchen, a volunteer organisation, hosts weekly free dinners for up to 10 guests from foods that have reached their sell-by-date. >
New device reduces the risk of HIV

Design News • 25 Jul 16 • Sponsored Content

This vaginal ring could dramatically reduce the risk of HIV in women. >
EyeControl: The first screen-free device for ALS patients

Design Frontiers • 25 Jul 16 • Sponsored Content

Often patients with ALS are "locked in" and unable to speak or use their limbs. With EyeControl, "locked-in" patients can communicate using eye-scrolling tech. >
Sustainable housing 3D printed with mud and straw

Design News • 25 Jul 16 • Sponsored Content

Italian company WASP starts 3D printing its first housing model with 40-feet-tall printing machine. >
Quirky Beedapest Hotel houses travelling bees

Design News • 25 Jul 16 • Sponsored Content

Visit the Rose Lemon Restaurant at the Grand Beedapest Hotel, a resting spot for urban bees. >
uLites: A large self-sustaining emergency shelter

Design News • 22 Jul 16 • Sponsored Content

The uLites shelter can house large numbers of people and vehicles in times of crisis. >
MOMALA – the healthcare app that detects malaria on the spot

Design News • 22 Jul 16 • Sponsored Content

This medical app turns a smartphone into a microscope to diagnose malaria at an early stage in just a few clicks. >
Wakami's ethically crafted accessories empower over 500 Guatemalan women

Design News • 22 Jul 16 • Sponsored Content

Working with women in rural Guatemala, Wakami is a design-driven organisation that sells over $1-million in products to over 20 countries. >
LuxAI and the future of social robots

Design Frontiers • 22 Jul 16 • Sponsored Content

Social robots that can be programmed by everyone could change the educational or health system. >
Wudu Water Saver reduces the water needed for religious hygiene

Product Spotlight • 22 Jul 16 • Sponsored Content

The Wudu Water Saver, designed by London-based product designer Ahmed Salah, reduces the amount of water and energy used in traditional Wudu cleansing. >
Creative campaign to try and show #LondonIsOpen

Design News • 21 Jul 16 • Sponsored Content

Major of London Sadiq Khan launches the #LondonIsOpen creative campaign to reassure everyone that the world is still welcome in the UK's capital. >

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