2011 Archive

Alejandro Aravena's low-cost housing solutions

Talks • Duration: 00:48:07 • 2 Sep 11

Looking to low-cost housing solutions, Alejandro Aravena propagates the building of half a good house. >
Kiran Bir Sethi does it for the kids

Talks • Duration: 00:22:53 • 1 Sep 11

Feel it, imagine it, do it and then share it. That’s what Kiran Bir Sethi is urging children to do to make the world a better place. >
Christien Meindertsma on her affinity for raw materials

Talks • Duration: 00:37:15 • 23 Aug 11

Her thoughtful exploration of materials such as wool and flax sees Christien Meindertsma creating gorgeously ethical design. >
Dror Benshetrit on collaboration, reinvention and transformation in cross-disciplinary design

Talks • Duration: 00:36:13 • 23 Aug 11

Dror Benshetrit launched his QuaDror structural support system at Design Indaba 2011. >
Gear up for Your Street Cape Town

Do Tank News • 22 Aug 11

Wave your creative magic wand and make a difference to the urban landscape in Cape Town: Enter the Your Street Challenge, inspired by Design Indaba. >
Javier Mariscal on what creativity can do – a puppet show

Talks • Duration: 00:39:05 • 19 Aug 11

Javier Mariscal asks and then shows, with live animation, what creativity can do. >
Robert Wong: How Google is adding humanity to technology

Talks • Duration: 00:46:51 • 18 Aug 11

Robert Wong shows how Google is positively impacting people’s lives by adding humanity to technology. >
Sonja Bäumel

Talks • Duration: 00:10:39 • 15 Aug 11

Fashion designer Sonja Baumel talks about growing clothes out of the bacteria on your skin. >
Michael Edwards on incentivising kids by turning it into a game

Talks • Duration: 00:09:24 • 12 Aug 11

Michael Edwards talks about incentivising kids by turning it into a game. >
Zapiro and Thierry Cassuto on satire and ZA News

Talks • Duration: 00:42:14 • 2 Aug 11

ZA News is the result of a long-term collaboration between political cartoonist Jonathan Shapiro (aka Zapiro), and producer Thierry Cassuto. >
Oliver Hermanus on his film "Shirley Adams"

Talks • Duration: 00:07:31 • 1 Aug 11

Filmmaker Oliver Hermanus talks about the construction of characters for his film "Shirley Adams". >
Tomas Kral

Talks • Duration: 00:06:29 • 27 Jul 11

ECAL graduate Tomas Kral talks about designing a luxury tea set for his graduation project and integrating craft and industrial design. >
Stefan G Bucher

Talks • Duration: 00:44:08 • 27 Jul 11

While his brain may not be a team player, Stefan G Bucher works to get out of his head. >
Thomas Thwaites on making a toaster from scratch

Talks • Duration: 00:08:55 • 22 Jul 11

Royal College of Art graduate Thomas Thwaites investigates how one would go about making a toaster from scratch. >
Design guru Bruce Nussbaum means business

Talks • Duration: 00:45:00 • 21 Jul 11

Design is a powerful tool for adding economic and social value to business, says Bruce Nussbaum. >
Bracket Light by Thingking

Product Spotlight • 13 Jul 11

Simple and versatile, Thingking's Bracket light can be used in a variety of interesting ways. >
"Design Samurai" Manabu Mizuno on the possibilities of design

Talks • Duration: 00:31:56 • 13 Jul 11

Manabu Mizuno likes to refer to himself as a design samurai, in a very positive sense. >
William Drenttel on design's global impact

Talks • Duration: 00:39:28 • 13 Jul 11

Promoting social entrepreneurship and applying design innovation to impact the world is what creativity is about for the William Drenttel (1953-2013). >
Harry Pearce on useful uselessness in graphic design

Talks • Duration: 00:44:23 • 7 Jul 11

Conundrums, dreams and fluttering butterflies. Harry Pearce talks about his graphic design process. >
Mark Shuttleworth on the benefits of open-source

Talks • Duration: 00:37:37 • 6 Jul 11

South African entrepreneur Mark Shuttleworth talks about the Ubuntu Project, a free, open-source Linux-based operating system. >
Adélia Borges and Paula Dib at WDCD 2011

Video Interviews • 30 Jun 11

At What Design Can Do 2011 conference Paula Dib and Adélia Borges talk about a commitment to design that can improve lives. >
Francis Kéré: African architecture should stop copying the West

Talks • Duration: 00:32:02 • 30 Jun 11

African architecture should stop copying the West, engage the real needs of the people and regard the environment, says Diébédo Francis Kéré. >
Rohan Shivkumar and M P Ranjan at WDCD 2011

Video Interviews • 29 Jun 11

Rohan Shivkumar and Professor MP Ranjan look at ways of effecting real change in India. >
Huda Smitshuijzen Abifarès at WDCD 2011

Video Interviews • 23 Jun 11

Design thinking is important for innovation in traditional scripts, says Huda Smitshuijzen Abifarès. >

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