The second installment of this annual list features global designers using their craft to improve lives--from building floating schools to learning about city design from slums.
NASA’s Sustainability Base is one of the smartest buildings on Earth, but what do you do with the information it--or other smart buildings--generate? Autodesk’s Project Dasher is finding ways to visualize and put to use everything we find out about our own energy use.
Design software company Autodesk has teamed up with bioprinting company Organovo to try to deliver us the future of personalized medicine: new organs that can be printed up just for you.
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Fancy chairs are lovely, but designers can use their skills for far more important tasks. A new exhibit takes a look at product design and architecture that solves broader social and environmental problems.
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Autodesk's Innovation Genome Project tried to quantify what worked about the 1,000 greatest innovations of all time. With that data in hand, the company then turned to what needs innovation today: building with sustainable materials.
Too often, innovative thinkers at large companies are written off when their ideas involve making the company cleaner or more efficient. A program from the Aspen Institute is helping empower these intrapreneurs to effect change in their companies.
Since national governments seem unable or unwilling to act, cities may end up being at the forefront of the fight against climate change. This map shows what the world's largest cities are facing, and what they're going to do about it.
