With Great Design Comes Great Responsibility: Antenna 2020 Looks to the Future

Anna Koppmann and Esmée Willemsen use traditional phase changing material to print a curtain that absorbs and releases heat by changing from a solid to liquid state as the room temperature changes. This technique of cooling and heating has been used for centuries.

RCA graduate Ricky Stoch uses simple scratch card technology to help make the lives of patients taking chronic medications easier, ensuring their treatment is as effective as it can be.

RISD’s Fengjiao Ge looks at how to reimagine garment waste as a resource.

Coltrane McDowell develops narratives around smell in Nairobi and looks at the potential of the city’s informal distilleries to make essential oils instead of liquor.

Designer and inventor Kosuke Takahashi has created a font that enables visually impaired and sighted people to read from the same page and connect with each other.

Danielle Begnaud’s Brain Bridges – her final project at Pratt University – encourages children to co-design toys with basic objects they already have at home.

New York-based Victoria Ayo has created a platform that aims to provide equal maternity care to black mothers. Birth Reborn draws on the healing power of community connection and ancestral knowledge, made accessible through a thoughtfully designed app.

South African architecture student Joshil Naran combines social awareness and theory to challenge perceptions of home by exploring interventions for dwellings in a suburb of Johannesburg.