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High school students design snap-together homeless shelter
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3 Jun 16
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HUT is a micro-shelter designed as a low-cost, easy-to-assemble solution to homelessness.
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Not Yet Decided: A social experiment in superposition
Next Generation
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3 Jun 16
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A group of young Lithuanian architects are proposing a social project based on Schrödinger's cat, the thought experiment.
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A future where products are grown straight out of our skin
Design Frontiers
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3 Jun 16
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Designer Amy Congdon imagines a world where biotechnology has changed the way textiles are made.
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Ending world hunger is a matter of logistics
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3 Jun 16
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Transfernation is an online platform that aims to tackle hunger by redistributing food waste.
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Benjamin Hubert: Design with meaning
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2 Jun 16
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Industrial designer Benjamin Hubert talks about how designers have a responsibility to solve the right kind of problems.
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Free Wi-Fi in exchange for keeping the air clean
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2 Jun 16
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Amsterdam-based startup TreeWiFi designs birdhouses that offer free internet when the air quality improves.
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Soofa: NYC’s solar-powered benches
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2 Jun 16
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The Soofa group is spreading technology with their solar-powered benches.
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Photo Series: Documenting “The Other Africa”
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2 Jun 16
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Social documentary photographer Lou Jones has spent the last few years documenting the new Africa, “The Other Africa.”
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BooToo: locally designed educational toys
Product Spotlight
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2 Jun 16
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South African entrepreneur Daniel Jillings, creates aesthetically pleasing children’s toys.
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How to use consumerism to raise awareness for climate change
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1 Jun 16
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London-based design studio Something & Son ran a pop-up shop selling elegant jewellery made of coal to question mindless consumption at the cost of the earth.
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Graphite: a modular honeycomb-shaped shelving system
Product Spotlight
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1 Jun 16
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A storage system designed to be sturdy and fully customisable.
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Social enterprise designs Kenyan running shoe
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1 Jun 16
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Enda is a running shoe inspired by Kenya’s legacy of running champions
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Welcome Shelter: Charlie Redman’s kinetic dining experience
Next Generation
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1 Jun 16
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Architecture student Charlie Redman designed an outdoor structure that functions in any weather.
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Someone Somewhere is about empowerment through fashion
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1 Jun 16
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Someone Somewhere combines traditional handcrafts with contemporary products to empower Mexican artisans.
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Ingestible origami robot can patch a wound from the inside
Design Frontiers
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31 May 16
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Researchers have developed a tiny magnetically controlled robot with dozens of healthcare applications.
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L CARD: A lung cancer “breathalyzer”
Design Frontiers
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31 May 16
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The tiny device can detect whether or not a patient has lung cancer.
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Spyce: healthy meals with the speed and ease of fast food
Design Frontiers
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31 May 16
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Designed by students, the machine makes a healthy meal as quick and easy as fast food.
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Photographer presents a bird’s-eye view of inequality in Cape Town
Design News
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31 May 16
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Johnny Miller’s photographic series shows that Apartheid spatial planning is still present in South Africa’s Mother City.
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Photographer Martha Tadesse captures her Ethiopian truth
Design News
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30 May 16
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Ethiopian photographer Martha Tadesse hopes to share images of her travels through Addis Ababa with the world.
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Cheap, effective, mosquito killing soap
Design Frontiers
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30 May 16
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Two African innovators have created a cheap soap to combat Malaria in the developing world.
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Luzinterruptus illuminates social issues using light and photography
Design News
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30 May 16
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The anonymous collective Luzinterruptus is creating illuminating installations with light.
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Margrethe Odgaard’s work is full of colour, creativity and compassion
Design News
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30 May 16
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Margrethe Odgaard is celebrated for her contributions to Nordic art and design.
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Innovative filter destroys pollutants in the air
Design News
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30 May 16
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The Molekule air filter uses nano-technology and light to destroy air pollutants at a molecular level.
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Robotic arms and a bit of lycra can change the way concrete is used in design
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30 May 16
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Designers develop a method of fabric-casting concrete into dynamic architectural forms
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