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Ephemeral Pavilion
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6 Nov 26
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Aulets Arquitectes create a temporary pavilion from locally sourced stone and discarded wooden pallets for Futur Habitable
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All our Blood
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6 Nov 26
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Harry Pearce’s presents an interactive experience on interconnectedness at Kyoto YouMe Triennale
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Toolkit for a walkable city
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6 Nov 26
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SWA are building toolkits for climate responsive public spaces
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A New Standard
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30 Oct 26
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ASICS and Karimoku sustainably decommission sneakers by giving them a second life as furniture
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Bobo
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29 Oct 26
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A period companion designed to help young girls track their period health.
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The Whispers of Plants
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29 Oct 26
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The Electric Plant Co is using technology to better understand and respond to nature.
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AnemoSwab
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22 Oct 26
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A James Dyson award winning low-cost, 3D Printed device to test for respiratory infections
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Train Jazz
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16 Oct 26
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Joshua Wolk puts creates music from the New York’s subway transit
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After the Last Sip
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16 Oct 26
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Designers Chao-Chun Kung, Ching-Yu Lin and Chen-Yang Chang turn coffee grounds into interior design elements
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Reefvive
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16 Oct 26
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A James Dyson Award Winner 2026, Reefvive is Using Marine Waste to promote Coral Reef Restoration
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Early Lab
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2 Oct 26
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EarlyHealth launches Early Lab home kits for early detection and screenings.
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Solariski
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1 Oct 26
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Solar Thermal Technology as Local Infrastructure
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Wool Waste
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1 Oct 26
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Harvard University’s Grinham Research Group has unveiled Upcycling Wool Ecologies, a project that transforms discarded wool into a rigid, bio-based cladding sys
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Dekoda
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25 Sep 26
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Kohler’s Dekoda health tracker wins Innovation by Design Award 2026
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Living Materials Laboratory
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25 Sep 26
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Found Associations Turns the Café Into a Living Materials Laboratory
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Guimo
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25 Sep 26
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A Modular Seating System Design
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Safety Shelters
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18 Sep 26
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Collaborative design-build establishes new relationships between community members, municipal officials and the Urban Safety Reference Group.
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Walk in the Shade
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18 Sep 26
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Architect and artist Elsa Ponce transforms a New York street with an inspired climate responsive walkway
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Women on the Edge of Democracy
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18 Sep 26
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Pentagram’s Paula Scher maps the space women have been granted in democracy.
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Skovsporet
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10 Sep 26
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Europe’s Largest 3D-Printed Housing Project
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Purple Cool Aid
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10 Sep 26
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Researchers develop a purple fabric that remains cool under direct sunlight
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Hissy
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10 Sep 26
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Samsung Design Membership designs wearable personal cooling system
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Visualisation of Reality
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4 Sep 26
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Riksbyggen and creative agency BBDO Nordics makes Sweden’s housing crisis tangible
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For the City
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4 Sep 26
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A youth centre designed to give back public space to the city
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Threads that bind us
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A hand-embroidered South African scene was transformed into a wallpaper.
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Hard at work
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The world’s biggest office building is a one-stop destination for over 60 000 professionals.
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Star tech
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7 Aug 23
Turn your smartphone into a telescope.
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Ken’s dream house
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7 Aug 23
A life-sized Barbie dream house gets a Ken-inspired Malibu makeover.
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