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Solar Power Connection. A short but eye-opening documentary on the artist and scientist Joaquín Fargas as he embarks on a quest to reveal the environmental impact of extracting lithium, a key component of electric cars. Watch it here.
Brutal forms. Transformed by a mesmeric score, brutalist architecture comes alive in the sole feature of the late composer Jóhann Jóhannsson. See it here.
Radical thinking. Watch a BBC documentary on the Bauhaus movement for free, here.
Let me dream again. An endlessly generating film and soundtrack trained on the audio and visuals of early cinema, here.

Create beats using thousands of everyday sounds, organized using machine learning, here.
Sisters with transistors (2020). Learn about the remarkable untold story of electronic music’s female pioneers who embraced machines and their liberating technologies to utterly transform how we produce and listen to music today. Watch the documentary here.

Envisions. Discover a design lab uniting over 20 multidisciplinary designers with a shared fascination for experimental research, h e re.
Slanted. Art, design & typography from Germany. Read more here.
Fractal Fantasy. Discover the dazzling virtual interactive environments envisioned by the creative duo behind the platform, here.
Discover the mesmerizing work of Chinese artist Chun Hua Catherine Dong. Her artistic practice is based on performance art, photography, video, VR, AR, and 3D printing within the contemporary context of global feminism. Learn about her extensive practice here.
Meet Monocle, an open-source eyewear with a patented unibody opto-mechanical enclosure by Brilliant Labs. Learn more here.

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Weird cuts. Create crafty collages and photography assemblages using AI, here.

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Hardware shop project. Make your own open-source furniture using unusual construction material here.
Softer. Online 3D software creative workshops for all, here.
Origami Simulation. Try out an app that uses VR to simulate how any origami crease pattern will fold in 3D and more experiments, here.

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The Filter Bubble. Eli Pariser's fascinating essay offers an insightful and critical look at the internet. Specifically, it puts under the microscope the dangerous consequences of data collection and the way it is used to personalize the internet. Read it here.
Sustainability debrief. Read this comprehensive article on sustainability by forecasting agency, The Future Laboratory, here.

Canadian 3D constructing company nidus3D, using a 3D construction printer by COBOD, completed the very first multi-storey building in North America. Learn more about the initiative here.
Cocoa beans Haute Couture. The world’s first haute couture vegan 3D printed dress from cocoa beans created by none other than a visionary fashion designer, Iris Van Herpen. Learn more about the initiative, here.