A fog-capturing jacket, a puzzle to guide the visually impaired, a non-electric humidifier made with recycled ceramic waste, and water-soluble wash bags to remove chemicals from your daily shop: these are the four inspiring winning projects shown during Milan Design Week
, which was based on the theme of ‘Design for a Better Tomorrow’. The four winners were selected by a judging panel including MoMA curator Paola Antonelli, designer Karim Rashid, and chief branding officer, Toyota Motor Corporation, Simon Humphries. Chosen for the originality of their ideas, the winning designs demonstrated a shared concern for social and environmental issues, with their seemingly modest solutions executed with great imagination and skill.
Made in collaboration with a textile engineer, everything needed to capture fog – the shelter, water pipe, bottle – are integrated seamlessly into the jacket. Meanwhile, the kit has a mobile app to help locate foggy areas and detect optimum times to collect the particles. In addition, Lai says it came from watching his grandmother trying to adapt to sight loss. ‘It was quite hard for her to find a knife in a kitchen, cut vegetables properly and figure out where a stove is,’ he says, ‘so I thought that it’s much easier for visually impaired people to recognise stuff through touch.’
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