Youth activism is on the rise, thanks in part to the actions and visibility of people like Greta Thunberg and...
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Projects
Africa’s first space for democratic technology has now produced over twenty 3D printers made from e-waste. Over one billion...
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A franchise network of 'digital' toilets in Nairobi is helping to stem the spread of COVID-19 among vulnerable urban slum communities....
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Ready, set… STOP. This team of planners and pickers are putting an end to plastic pollution in South East Asia....
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While mobile phones bring huge benefits – such as accessibility to information, ability to set up mobile payments and help...
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Despite being born over a thousand years before the invention of the computer, Saint Isidore of Seville is considered the ‘Patron Saint...
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Imagine if you could donate clean air to the city simply by buying a ring or set of cufflinks? But...
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As in every design endeavour, it all started with a problem. In fact, two of them. The first encountered problem...
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Repair has always been a noble profession, but our increasing obsession with newer, better, faster means we have stopped fixing...
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Plastic bottle pavilions and urban-mined glasses, 'Polli-Brick' and 'Eco-Morph' and the waste that it slashes, upcycled film theatres and recycled...
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One person’s toxic e-waste dump is another’s treasure workshop. That's why a Ghana-based architect duo have launched AMP (Agbogbloshie Makerspace...
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Apple has built a new automated recycle-bot that can ‘kill’ an iPhone, ripping it apart in seconds. Meet Liam, the rapid-speed...
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