When Dr Fransisco Velasco started work on a Covid ward, he found himself commuting to work with his laptop and notes in a bin bag.
His brand new rucksack was made of canvas and could not be sterilised at the end of each day.
The doctor, based in Mexico, decided to contact the British company behind the bag and tell them about the problem. His girlfriend told him not to bother, as they probably wouldn't care. Undeterred, Dr Velasco wrote a lengthy message...[more]
From the BBC
Meet Deborah Opandoh – Product Design Engineer in the Cassava Processing Space
Deborah Opandoh is the Founder of the QueenTech Initiative,GhanaWeb reports:
...Deborah Opandoh's love for food, mathematics, and physics led her to pursue a degree in Agricultural Engineering at the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology in 2007.That flair has its roots two steps backwards when she would come top in a WAEC-organised Mathematics competition for all Junior High Schools in the Western Region. After serving as a teaching and research assistant upon completion of her bachelor’s degree, Deborah Opandoh decided to taste a master’s degree in Food and Post-harvest engineering at the same University. Towards the end of the first year of the programme, she got the privilege to work with the Affordable Design and Entrepreneurship (ADE) group, where they went to rural areas to see how women processed food. “We realised that most women who processed gari grated by hand, and this was dangerous, inefficient, very laborious and time-wasting. “They also pressed with rocks which was very dangerous especially to their health as most had issues with their waist and some would need men to carry and turn over the sacs,” she said. Deborah began working on the grating surfaces of the cassava grater for her Master’s...[more]
From Model Organism to Polycultures – Sarah Richardson, founder of @MicroByre in conversation with Natsai Audrey Chieza founder @faberfutures
From Ferment TV:
More relevant now than ever…Design for the Next Billion Customers, by Niti Bhan @prepaid_africa and Dave Tait
From Core 77 in 2008:
Niti Bhan and Dave Tait, having just returned from exploratory research in Africa to understand the mindset and consumer behavior at the bottom of the pyramid, share their insights for designers hoping to serve this population. This research was part of a larger study conducted by Experientia, an Italy-based international experience design consultancy.
This theme shows up, in one form or another, on most of the application essays made to design schools. Young designers aspire to improve people's lives by creating products that matter. They dream of Eames, timeless designs and creating products that get called 'Classic.' But the real world soon starts putting commercial demands on the designer's time and talent, and the dream gets slowly wrapped up in dust, to be tucked away, as focus shifts to styling trendy products that catch the fickle consumer's eye. Planned obsolescence influence the very consumerism and market forces that now demand 'New!'...[more]
African Design | Deep Dive | The Design Edit https://thedesignedit.com/deep-dive/african-design/#.XoDbKITo6Lt.twitter
Anna Sansom writes:
Using a range of local materials – from recycled metal and coconut palms to canoes – and collaborating with local craftspeople, contemporary African designers are attracting international interest...[more]
Rujeko Masike, Zimbabwe designed a Portable Gold Crusher
A finalist for the 2015 Africa Prize for Engineering Innovation
Zimbabwean engineer Rujeko Masike developed a portable crushing machine for use in the small and medium mining sector. Masike is chairperson of the Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering Department at the Harare Institute of Technology and a lecturer in the same subject...[more]
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How Shenzhen is fueling Ethiopia’s burgeoning startup scene "Designed in #Ethiopia " https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_3z9Rc5joVE
From Quartz:
As Shenzhen companies look to Africa for new consumer markets, African entrepreneurs are turning to Shenzhen for manufacturing partners to turn their ideas into reality. In this episode of Because China, Quartz travels to Addis Ababa to learn about how the movers and shakers in Ethiopia’s burgeoning tech startup scene are tapping into the open source manufacturing ecosystem of China’s most entrepreneurial city.
Machine Tools and the International Transfer of Industrial Technology
From the Joint Centre for History & Economics:
Between the 1860s and the 1960s there was an extraordinary quantum leap in humanity’s capacity to transform raw metal into highly complex machines. Together with contemporary developments in chemistry and electrical technology, this revolution in metalworking formed the industrial backbone of the modern world. Though it is no longer as visible at the heart of the world economy, it nevertheless continues to support virtually every aspect of the material standard of living, which we take for granted today. The ever lower cost of long-distance air travel and satellite-based communication, the revolutionary innovations of information technology and the life-saving feats of modern medical technology, all these achievements of the “weightless”, “service” economy, in fact rely on a massive physical infrastructure, an extraordinary throughput of material goods, whether domestically produced or not, and a variety of black boxed machines of vast complexity. In a world in which even space flight no longer makes headlines, the technological capacity to produce and reproduce this material backdrop, is nevertheless essential to the functioning of our dematerialized economy. Tracing the development of these productive forces and the discourses that surrounded and impelled their development is the subject of our conference, which seeks to explore and map the development of machine-tool technology from the late 19th century up to the 1960s. We focus on machine tools because they are the ubiquitous instruments of modern manufacturing and because right up to the 1980s they occupied an iconic position in debates about industrial modernization...[more]
Luvuyo Ndiki founder of Red Cup Village, has created South Africa’s first 3D biodegradable cup made out of cornstarch and sugarcane.
Food for Mzansi reports
...Ndiki says he ventured into biodegradable production because as a businessman he saw a market gap. “Because Red Cup Village is the only producer of biodegradable cups in SA, I am the one who the world looks at in regard to biodegradable manufacturing in Mzansi,” he says.
The corn starch and sugar cane are sourced from local farms which is then made into bioplastic. From there, it is made into biodegradable cups and other biodegradable products...[more]
Why It’s Time for a Hardware Conference in Nigeria
Chuma Asuzu writes:
Introducing Datasheet, a conference on product development
Between the 4th and 6th of April this year, Hardware Lagos will host her first conference. For three days, there will be workshops and talks delivered by experts from across Africa and outside the continent...[more]
The ‘Nupe Project’, a start-up with ambitious goals for West Africa’s industrial design market.
@designindaba in conversation with @funferekoroye:
More here“At the Nupe Project we design, develop and prototype innovative products in Africa,” reads the descriptor on the front page the start-up’s website. Based between London and Lagos, the Nupe Project was founded in 2016 by a team of Nigerian designers who aim to develop problem-solving products and create employment.
The World Is Witnessing Nigeria’s Creative Golden Age
Siddhartha Mitter writing in W magazine:
More hereNigerians, of course, saw it all along. The infiltration of world culture by the sounds, images, and styles of their country has been building for some time. The author and photographer Teju Cole notices Nigerian pop music when he travels—recently, in a taxi in Peru. The journalist Bim Adewunmi remembers finding a group of white British kids in London singing “Oliver Twist,” a hit by D’Banj, down to the artist’s Nigerian accent: OH-lee-vah. “D’Banj trumped Charles Dickens in that moment,” Adewunmi says. “And that made me feel good!”
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Meet the Nigerian Product Designers Behind a New Brand of Minimalism – Vogue
Over at Vogue:
About a week ago, Nifemi Marcus-Bello, a 30-year-old Nigerian product designer, walked into a high-end lifestyle store in Victoria Island, Lagos’s central business district. He asked if they might stock his “LM Stool,” named after a dear friend.
The two-legged stool—created by bending, welding, and laser-cutting metal—looks weightless, and comes in two colors. It’s currently on view in the Venice Design 2018 show held during the the 16th Venice Architecture Biennale. But the store, which has acquired a global reputation as a destination for a rich range of goods from the across the African continent, declined to stock it.
It is not “African design,” they said. And the meeting was over...[more]
Why #Hardware for Development? by @cpbirkelo cc @HardwareNigeria @EmekaOkoye @ijele5000 @UcheAristotle
Paul Birkelo writes:
Making physical, tangible things is more powerful, more important, and more meaningful than you may think.
I first learned about makerspaces as a concept in Ethiopia (the first one I ever visited was iceaddis in Addis Ababa), so to me, it has always seemed perfectly natural that open-access spaces for building manufacturable products — hardware — would be called makerspaces, that they clearly have a role to play in economic development, and that they tend to be full of exactly the kind of creative, talented, and hard-working people that I like to be surrounded by...[more]
Hardware Nigeria Community (HNC) —An Introduction
Hardware Nigeria Community (HNC) is a network and synergy of Nigerian inventors, makers and hardware entrepreneurs committed to fixing hardware in Nigeria.
It is a system which facilitates indigenous technology development, entrepreneurship and job creation.
Hardware in this context implies physical technology products such as electronic devices, mechanical devices, machines, gadgets, etc...[more]
‘Africa By Design’ comes to NYC
Featuring at NYCxDESIGN, New York City's annual celebration of design:
The designers selected for the inaugural and ground-breaking AFRICA BY DESIGN exhibition, share strong symbolic and cultural narratives and histories. However, they are each thought provoking in their separate heritage and, surprising for the outsider, for their modernity. From environmental design, to furniture / product and textile design; 21 designers, from 6 sub-Saharan countries will create a platform, which celebrates design.
In Africa to Design better Tech Understand Context – Tania Douglas at #TEDGlobal
‘For our generation, the only way to be radical is to build’
Over at Architectural Review:
At Low Design Office’s Agbogbloshie Makerspace Platform in the scrapyards of Accra, Ghana, new into old takes on a whole new meaning...[more]
Kenyan design brands
A post from Afri-Love
Egypt’s Mini-Car , a competitor for the Tuk Tuk
SciDev reports:
Inside his workshop in Kerdasa, a village in the Giza governorate, Ahmed Saeed is working on developing a local alternative to the auto-rickshaws or ‘tuk-tuks’ that began to colonise Egypt’s streets years ago.
Saeed says his car is safer ‒ as a four-wheeled vehicle it is more stable than tuk-tuks, which are involved in many accidents in Egypt.
It can also save the country millions in pounds paid to import tuk-tuks every year, he claims. “The Mini-Car is a very cheap alternative to any similar car in Egypt, priced between US $1,700 and US $1,900,” says Saeed...[more]
Design global, manufacture local: a new industrial revolution?
Over at the Conversation:
What if globally designed products could radically change how we work, produce and consume? Several examples across continents show the way we are producing and consuming goods could be improved by relying on globally shared digital resources, such as design, knowledge and software...[more]
Elephab Manufacturing and Design – A 3D printing startup , #Nigeria
3ders reports:
Founded by Anjola Badaru and Damilola Akinniyi, Elephab was born from the idea that products used in Africa should be manufactured locally. As Badaru told local press, “We truly believe the future of manufacturing for products used in Africa is in Africa. We can’t keep importing parts from overseas and then wonder why our economy is struggling.”via Prepaid Economy
Badaru and Akinniyi are both part of GE’s Lagos Garage, an advanced manufacturing training program aimed at teaching “hardware entrepreneurs” how to use 3D printing to develop, prototype, and produce new products and parts locally. It was through this program that the pair were inspired to start their own 3D printing company...[more]
Downtown Tunis In Your Pocket via Flaÿou a Design Agency
In Cairo Observer:
Around one year ago, Flaÿou was born in Carthage, Tunisia. Flaÿou is a multidisciplinary design agency for “joyful design” - declared by the founders Hella El Khiari and Thomas Egoumenides. Employers and employees are part of the “Dream Team” and the atmosphere in the studio emits the spirit of joyful design by not taking everything too seriously...[more]
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AB3D – African Born 3D Printing
via IDIN:
Straight from the “Silicon Savannah” comes a cadre of social entrepreneurs. Roy Ombatti founded African-Born 3D Printing, a social enterprise that builds 3D printers from e-waste and sells them to schools. Juliet Wanyiri, founder of Foondi, runs electronics workshops with high school students. Chebet Lesan founded Bright Green Enterprise, a company that transforms urban market waste into clean burning charcoal for cooking. Karl Heinz Tondo, founder of Juakali Box, uses 3D printers to produce educational tools for STEM. Michelle Ngure runs innovation education programs for youth at Global Minimum.More here
Automation and Engineering Academy, Nigeria
Automation and Engineering Academy (AEA) was profiled in a recently held fair:
...is an offshoot of SAFE CURRENT MULTIPURPOSE ENGINEERING WORKS that started as a corporate business enterprise in 2002. The company started out by providing Industrial Electrical Services and Repairs for several companies in the Western Region of Nigeria. The name change to AEA was effected in the year 2012 following its incorporation with the Corporate Affairs Commission. The primary business focus of AEA is to render high-tech industrial automation and allied engineering services to Nigerian corporate organizations that need yet lack experienced automation specialists and services.
WAFRICA – A Creative Studio
Venture Design Incubator – FrogVentures
FC profiles FrogVentures from Frog:
In 2014, the global design consultancy Frog formalized a venture arm–a small experimental group called FrogVentures, tasked with helping entrepreneurs launch new products, often in exchange for equity. It was a risky move, especially at a difficult time for many design firms like Frog, as large tech companies hoovered up talent and brought design services in-house. But the gamble paid off. FrogVentures’s portfolio company LQD WiFi, which makes kiosks for cities that deliver free Wi-Fi, emergency alerts, and other information, sold to Verizon in 2016...[more]
Nairobi Design Institute
In Kenya:
At Nairobi Design Institute we enable creative leadership through design education. We address complex challenges through new design practices and bespoke community engagement
Prototyping an Open Source chair at Design Indaba
Africa By Design – An Exhibition
In the FT:
More hereNext week, at the Nubuke Foundation in the Accra suburb of East Legon, 21 designers from six sub-Saharan countries will be featured at Africa by Design.
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“Design has a significant role in African culture,” says organiser Chrissa Amuah, “but we believe it has a commercial future too.” A new consumer class is emerging in Ghana, increasingly interested in contemporary design. “There is still the idea, for some people, that if it comes from abroad then it’s better,” says Amuah, “We’re out to change that narrative.”
Developing the Rotimatic
A founders story from the makers of the Rotimatic
Lambert Obi Egbuchulam – SkateBoard Designer
The Huffington Post profiles the co-founder of Be Boardz:
If you thought hoverboards were the new skateboards, think again. Twenty-four-year-old engineer, Lambert Obi Egbuchulam, is competing against the the skate industry’s big dogs with his revolutionary design for a bi-navigational board According to Egbuchulam, skateboard manufacturers have been recycling older models for years that aren’t innovative for modern skaters, which inspired him to create Be Boardz...[more]
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Wooden Bags and Accesories from Indalo Décor
Indalo Décor, founded by Inga Gubeka:
...is a Cape Town based design studio that specialises in contemporary lifestyle decor products and accessories. Some of the products include: iPad cases, backpacks, lamps, clocks and many more. All products are made out of wood and leather, and are hand crafted by designer and founder Inga Gubeka.
5 designers
From Between 10 and 5:
More hereThe 100% Design contemporary showcase opens tomorrow at Gallagher Estate and we can’t wait to see the range of products, furniture, decorative items and trends on exhibit at this year’s event. Once again we’re co-presenting the 100% Talent lineup of new and emerging designers which are making their mark on the local design and maker scene. This year’s exhibitors include textiles, furniture, objects, art, ceramics, media and interior design. Here are 5 designers we’re looking forward to.
from Fabrica Ndebele Burglar Bars
Musana Carts – For Street Vendors
This is Uganda reports:
More hereMusana Carts is an innovation by Natalie Bitature, 26, Manon Lavaud, 24, and Keisuke ‘Kei’ Kubota, 29, all students of Hult International Business School in San Francisco. They came up with the innovation using Uganda as a case study as they entered the annual Hultz prize competition, which has a US 1 million dollar top prize. The Hult prize is meant to force students into thinking out of the box by coming up with ideas that impact society, and also by changing the way many entrepreneurs tackle business today.
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Inside Burn’s Charcoal Stove Factory
In Nairobi, a report from Engineering for Change:
On a dirt road inside a gated business park outside of Nairobi, Kenya, a worker boxes and stacks BURN’s cookstoves one by one as they come off the assembly line. The factory cuts, folds, presses, rivets and paints steel and ceramic wool into stoves optimized for cooking with charcoal. The stoves, called the Jiko Koa, burn about half of the charcoal that traditional stoves require, which means they pay for themselves within three or four months, and they save families about $150 to $250 per year in charcoal costs...[more]
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Menn Baladha’s Glass Collection
A new line from Egypt based design house, Menn Baladha:
Just like our clay pots, each piece is individually mouth blown by a skilled craftsman in the heart of Cairo.
This time, we are brining you a set of three simple and slim glass pitchers, coupled with wooden lids. The pitcher is designed to have a comfortable and secure grip.
Muko Furniture
From Nifemi Marcus-Bello, in Design Indaba:
Lagos-born product designer Nifemi Marcus-Bello has released a furniture series designed for children who spend more and more time in classrooms. “The chair is designed to support children’s posture, allowing them to focus on work or play in-front of them,” explains Marcus-Bello.
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Lightweight and durable, the Muko series allows the children to lift and move the furniture themselves. The chair is designed to be used beyond the classroom, as its weight allows for easy transportation and it can be easily tucked away when not in use...[more]
Degradable Leaf Food Bowls
Chinnawat Singha reporting from the Bangok Post:
Concern over the rising use of polluting styrofoam containers has encouraged a research team at Naresuan University to develop a process to make watertight, degradable food bowls from leaves.Lecturers from the engineering faculty spent more than a year developing the process, finally producing firm, usable bowls from leaves to replace foam containers.
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Through trial and error, the team found that leaves of the thong kwao (bastard teak), sak (teak) and sai (banyan) trees are the best to use for the containers.
The bowls can hold hot water without leaking and it will degrade naturally after being discarded...[more]
Afrosneaker by Afroshoes
On Kickstarter
The Nyala sneaker is designed in Berlin and inspired by the architecture of its massive buildings, long visual axes, high ceilings and beauty that is inconspicuous. The sneaker collection is also influenced by the vibrancy and eclectic nature of Nairobi where the designer, Emo Rugene, grew up and it is produced in Addis Abeba, “The New Flower”. The Nyala collection is an embodiment of intercity and multi-culturally inspired footwear that cuts across three capital cities to give the wearer an urbanite product to complete their outfit. Nyala is an Amharic word meaning Gazelle, paying tribute to the beauty, elegance and agility of this animal, which was a central part of the design process.
Pia Nyakairu | Industrial Designer
via Design Indaba,the award winning:
More here...Pia Nyakairu hopes to further explore different aspects of design that centre around promoting cultural experiences through empathy and unique user centered design strategies.
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On Indiegogo…Go from 3D printing to Desktop Injection Moulding
On Indiegogo:
Desktop Automated Plastic Injection Moulding
Every maker, inventor and engineer knows that 3D printing is great for making prototypes, but after the prototype is made, you struggle to commercialize those prototypes because 3D printing is too slow and costly for production runs, and the long lead time, high cost and risk of the injection moulding tools prevents quick and easy access to industrial injection moulding processes.
Many-maker solves this problem by enabling you to make injection moulded production runs in record time, right on your desktop using inexpensive mould tools cast in high temperature polymers from mould masters made with your 3D printer.
Many-Maker is the ultimate 3D printer accessory as it can reproduce your prints without days worth of printing, hand finishing or expensive filament...[more]
Avoiding Prototypes that Gather Dust – KNUST’s Cassava Harvester and Others
AgricGhana reports on a recently developed Cassava Harvester from the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science & Technology:
They also mention the absence of effort to move the prototype from where it is to an actual commercial product:The device ‘Tek Mechanical Cassava Harvester’ (TEK-MCH) has been engineered to address the difficulty in commercially harvesting root and tuber crops. Manual harvesting reflects drudgery and time consumption, especially in the dry seasons, and has been the bane of commercial production for these crops...[more]
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According to him, lack of funding and motivation such as official endorsements have relegated many research findings and innovations to gathering dust, saying: “Government must identify some of these success stories and cushion them with the needed supports to aid agricultural transformation”.This is neither an isolated instance nor an aberration. Research institutes, universities and other related organizations in Africa have proved themselves largely incapable of spinning off their products,prototypes and or ideas. They may have the prototyping ability but not the commercialization prowess. What is lacking among other things is a system of design for manufacturing & makerspace accelerators. Environments that can hone,evolve and assist in the finishing process are essential but rare. They are however beginning to appear, spaces like Foondi, Gearbox,Qamp,Centre Lukare,Centre Songhai, Menn Baladha Craft and others come to mind.Fostering the emergence of more environments like this is crucial if we are to unlock the legions of innovations presently inhabiting dusty shelves.
Novel types of Anti-Discplinary Spaces – CODAME Labs & ZooLabs
The Creative-Tech-Science space continues to evolve outside established institutions and within them from biotech to hardware to Art & Fashion, Design & Science interdisciplinary and antidisciplinary neo-incubators are proliferating. Among them are Anouk Wipprecht's Codame Labs:
...a dedicated R & D studio focused on collaborative innovation of artists, engineers, architects, fashion designers, and scientists exploring our interactions with the world around us.and Zoolabs:
...a nonprofit music accelerator for artists who are seeking to make a sustainable livelihood from their craft. We invest in & explore the intersection between creativity, craft & commercial viability.
Multi-purpose tractor the ‘MV Mulimi’
From Design Indaba:
via FarmbizUganda’s Makerere University recently revealed a multi-purpose tractor prototype at its Agricultural Research Institute. The tractor called MV Mulimi has been engineered to perform several functions aside from the standard ploughing and transporting of crops. Head of the project Professor Noble Banadda was at the launch to explain the workings and capabilities of the hybrid farming machine.
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Made from wood and steel, the three-wheeled vehicle is able to pump water for irrigation, thresh grain from crops and charge mobile phones (for the farmer who likes to stay connected). The professor explained how the tractor is designed to help farmers cultivate more crops with greater efficiency and at a faster rate...[more]
Building Desktop Factories with Mayku
From Andre at 3ders:
Mayku - The World's First Desktop Factory from Mayku on Vimeo.
Since getting involved with the Maker movement back in 2011, the idea that 3D printing is somehow part of a new philosophy in localizing production was a cornerstone belief. The idea is that a collaborative effort of similarly minded people could pull its resources together so to gain access to 3D printing, 3D scanning, laser cutting, CNC machines and all manner of custom fabrication tools. While always limited in scale, the complexity of art, prototypes and everything-in-between that was made on-site wouldn’t have been possible if not for the collaborative efforts of these Makers. Without it, our reliance on products that are, for the most-part, manufactured overseas en masse would have been as high as it remains with the majority out there today.
MaykuThon - A weekend of making at Somerset House from Mayku on Vimeo.
It appears a new startup called Mayku is hoping to bring this spirit of making together with a global network of mini-factories but also aspires to assist in supplying supplementary tools and technologies that would reduce the need for distantly produced products even further. And if you have the curiosity to make, “whether you make clay pots, or rocket ships”, as they put it, they want you to join...[more]
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Jean-Patrice Keka – Rocketeer
In the WSJ Drew Hinsha profiles a prime candidate covered earlier, for future DRC makerspaces:
...For 10 years, Congo’s best-known rocket expert has been launching projectiles from yam farms here near the village of Menkao. His ground-control center, a corrugated-metal shed with a weather vane, contains a row of aging 11-inch televisions and desktop computers with floppy drives.
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There are relics of past flights, like the Ovaltine can in which a local rat nearly became the first Congolese animal to touch the stratosphere.
None of five craft engineered by the rocketeer, 45-year-old Jean-Patrice Keka, have reached space from the launch zone he built with his own money, two hours by dirt road from the capital of Kinshasa.
But Mr. Keka’s next creation, Troposphere VI, is more advanced. He designed the three-stage-engine rocket, nicknaming it Soso Pembe or “white rooster,” to power 120 miles up, 60 miles beyond what is considered the inner boundary of outer space...[more]
Rwanda’s soon to be launched "African Design Center"
In Dezeen:
MASS Design Group, a nonprofit US firm, plans to start an architecture and design training centre in Kigali, Rwanda, to help address the "dearth of professional designers" across Africa (+ movie).
MASS, which has offices in Boston and Kigali, will announce its plans for the new African Design Center at the United Nations Solutions Summit on 27 September in New York. The firm, founded in 2010, has completed a number of projects – including schools, medical clinics, and housing – in sub-Saharan Africa, Haiti and America.
The new centre, which the firm is raising money for and intends to open next year, will offer design training both in the classroom and in the field, and will also offer classes geared toward "soft skills" such as networking and business development. The firm hopes to replicate the pilot school in other regions around the continent...[more]
Mobile Medical Battery Maker
Damilare Opeyemi of Ventures Africa reports:
...Recently, 21 year-old Nigerian Jaiyeola Oduyoye, a graduate of Product Design Engineering from the University of Derby in the United Kingdom created a ground breaking invention in anticipation of her graduation from the University of Derby in June 2016.More hereTo enhance surgical procedures in hospitals which often suffer from poor electricity, Oduyoye invented a mobile medical battery that provides temporary backup electricity to surgical theaters in developing countries. The invention was “developed for countries that have difficulty accessing uninterrupted power supplies so they are able to perform these surgeries in-country, rather than fly people out”, she said to This Day.
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