Portugal.
Wool becomes part of the room’s acoustic and visual character. Materials, craft and practical engineering meet in objects designed around the places and people using them.
Start with Burel Factory · Acoustic Textiles.
Give an old textile a new room to fill.
Portuguese wool-working skills find a contemporary role in acoustic surfaces for interiors.
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Read colour through another language.
If a game, map or pencil relies on colour alone, not everyone receives the same information. ColorADD adds a compact set of symbols to identify colours. The colour stays. A second way of reading it makes the same object more accessible.
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A lifebuoy with a way forward.
Portugal’s U SAFE adds propulsion and remote steering to a rescue buoy, bringing flotation towards someone in the water.
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A wave machine with two responses.
Sweden-developed CorPower C4 was tested in Portugal with control modes for capturing ordinary waves and limiting movement in extreme seas.
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A vegetable bed with water stored below.
A vegetable bed can draw water upward from a reservoir instead of depending on frequent surface watering.
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Inspect while the machine is knitting.
Cameras watch fabric while it is being knitted and can stop the machine when a defect begins.
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Give surplus food a short route to someone who needs it.
Neighbourhood volunteers connect nearby surplus food with households.
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Give young kelp a foothold before it meets the sea.
Young kelp is grown on small stones before those stones are returned to the sea.
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