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A marbled speaker comes with a repair route. Shelving adapts to a changing home. A rotating lift reconnects waterways. Explore the details that let familiar objects and places work differently.
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Let yesterday’s plastic play again.
A Brighton-made speaker gives recovered plastic a visible role in an object designed to be kept and repaired.
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A new material. A real crowd.
Notpla’s seaweed-coated food packaging entered Wembley’s catering operation, putting a material alternative into a demanding everyday system.
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A former quarry becomes a living classroom.
Huge planted habitats fit an irregular former quarry by borrowing their geometry from clusters of soap bubbles.
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Headphones children assemble and repair.
Taking headphones apart is usually the beginning of a problem. Kibu makes it part of the product. Children assemble the parts they will later be able to replace, turning repairability into something visible and familiar.
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The Moon, close enough to gather beneath.
A touring lunar sculpture turns a distant landscape into a shared encounter.
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A neighbourhood library for things.
You may need a carpet cleaner for a day, not a place to store one for years. London's Library of Things turns that distinction into a neighbourhood service: useful equipment, nearby collection and a system that keeps it ready for the next person.
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A better grip on an ordinary key.
A small wing gives an ordinary key more surface to grip and more leverage to turn.
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An instrument is only the beginning.
Accessible instruments are supported by an orchestra, repertoire and a route to keep playing.
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A boat ride that turns a corner in the sky.
Two water-filled cradles carry boats in opposite directions. By balancing the loads, the Falkirk Wheel turns a canal connection into a slow, spectacular rotation.
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Design cooling into the wheelchair backrest.
Airflow through wheelchair seating addresses heat and moisture at a continuous contact point.
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Clothes with room to grow.
Engineered pleats let children’s clothing expand as the wearer grows.
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Your shelves can move on with you.
Dieter Rams’s modular shelving system lets a home change without starting again with all its furniture.
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