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Design for Impact

Design for Impact is a series spotlighting innovative solutions for communities affected by the climate crisis, natural disasters and other humanitarian emergencies.

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    This pinecone-sized device could transform the fight against wildfires
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    A low-lying country’s defense against rising seas? Its very own ‘Long Island’
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    What if your house changed color with the seasons? This ‘climate-responsive’ paint could make it happen
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Emergency response

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    How Japan earthquake-proofed its architecture
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    How to 3D-print a school in a war zone
  • A man (L) looks at the city's skyline as a storm approaches in Hong Kong on April 2, 2014. Stormy weather is affecting the city due to a trough of low pressure on coastal areas of neighbouring Guangdong province in southern China.
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    How design of cities must change to withstand ‘category 6’ mega storms
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    Home in a box: Rethinking disaster relief, IKEA style
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    Cities are hotter than ever. Here’s what they do about it
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    Floating architecture isn’t the future. It’s already here
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Change through innovation

  • Nestle, a tiny home made from a nacelle, the part of a wind turbine that stores the generator.
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    Designers convert hard-to-recycle wind turbines into tiny houses
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    Could these air purification towers tackle India’s pollution problem?
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    Is it time to revolutionize the toilet?
  • Bushfire shutters are used again here for a number of purposes — blocking glare and keeping out insects.  "If you put the innovation into the buildings, the buildings are much more likely to be maintained because they have to operate on a daily basis, and that's really, ultimately, the first principle," Weir said.
    Andrew Halsall / Ian Wei
    The Australian architects designing homes to withstand bushfires
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Building community

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    Alessandro Treves
    The designer bringing Italian furniture to one of Kenya’s oldest slums
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    These houses are designed to face the challenges of the 21st century

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