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Rajni Perera’s embellished photography explores identity alongside surreal dreamworlds
Design Frontiers
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14 Aug 18
“After all, immigrants are the first travellers in time and space.”
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Architect Annabelle Selldorf announced as Design Indaba speaker for 2019
Design Frontiers
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14 Aug 18
The founder of Selldorf Architects’ design language is quietly classic and highly considered.
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Indian artists interpret what Urdu will look like in 2050
Design Frontiers
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13 Aug 18
'Will young girls drop Rumi bombs on the 2050 version of social media to passive aggressively call out lousy lovers?"
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Somali Architecture students are stitching back the country's built heritage digitally
Design Frontiers
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12 Aug 18
The collective has been invited to represent the country at this year's London Design Biennale.
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Roshnee Desai is pushing for a research-led approach to design in India
Design Frontiers
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12 Aug 18
The importance of designing for the everyday person, and democratising design.
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Bridging the gap between architecture and entrepreneurship in Lesotho
Design Frontiers
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10 Aug 18
Daniela Gusman talks about the project as well as their international architecture competition, Rise In The City.
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Morag Myerscough's Design Indaba installation brings vibrant colour to two Cape Town schools
Design Frontiers
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8 Aug 18
Design Indaba worked with stakeholders including SeeSawDo on two projects giving a second life to the Embrace the Unknown installation.
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Advice from past Design Indaba Emerging Creatives
Design Frontiers
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8 Aug 18
Here's what illustrator Daniel Ting Chong, director Anthony Silverston, artist Paul Senyol and furniture designer Neil Grantham have to say.
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Check out the creatives participating in this year's GrigriPixel workshop
Design Frontiers
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7 Aug 18
The annual programme is developing a wealth of experimental practices through inter-continental collaboration.
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Entries for the second Future Food Design Awards are now open
Design Frontiers
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3 Aug 18
Set to be held during this year’s annual Dutch Design Week, the competition is seeking to solidify the connection between the worlds of food and design.
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These five creative women are using fashion, food and more to challenge and inspire
Design Frontiers
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2 Aug 18
This Women’s Month, we take a look back at some of the fiercely creative women who have graced the Design Indaba stage.
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Meet Dutch designer, artist and entrepreneur, Joris Laarman
Design Frontiers
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1 Aug 18
“I don’t do things with a goal in my head. I just do them to discover things.”
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Underwater couture for an uncertain future by biomimicry designer Jun Kamei
Design Frontiers
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30 Jul 18
The Royal College of Art grad’s 3D-printed garments are for a world submerged in water.
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Designing for urban mobility means learning from the past and predicting for the future
Design Frontiers
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25 Jul 18
Trans Utopias is an exhibition which explores the way we design our transport systems in the past, present and for the future.
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Award-winning director Siphiwe Myeza-Mhlambi on his approach to storytelling
Design Frontiers
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19 Jul 18
“I want everything that l do to allow me to change the world."
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Faith XLVII unveils new mural and Peace Manifesto in San Fransisco
Design Frontiers
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16 Jul 18
"We formulated our own Manifesto, keeping the perspective as inclusive as possible. For me, the main objective is empathy. "
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Eliminating the enormous energy cost of mining cryptocurrencies
Design Frontiers
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13 Jul 18
Estonian company Nordcoin is changing the game and making crypto-farms mobile
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How can we adjust our world to accommodate an ever-expanding global population?
Design Frontiers
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11 Jul 18
These interventions could help relieve the enormous pressures felt by cities in a crowded world.
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How drones are helping in the fight against malaria
Design Frontiers
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10 Jul 18
“Where do mosquitoes go in the dry season?”
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World’s largest 3D printed structure unveiled at Venice Biennale
Design Frontiers
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6 Jul 18
The Cloud Pergola was envisioned as a paradigm for what architecture should stand for in the 21st century. It will be on show until 25 November.
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Zambian fashion entrepreneur on prints, nostalgia and the importance of finding synergy
Design Frontiers
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5 Jul 18
Lucy Mulima started Aya Goods after years spent working in fashion, PR and media.
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The Connected Supper Club on dinner tables as spaces for positive change
Design Frontiers
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4 Jul 18
“London is a big city and I don’t find it surprising that people are attracted to small events centred around dinner tables."
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Developed by a Cape Town lecturer, this self-sustaining toilet turns waste into material of value
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4 Jul 18
The innovative Sanihive took home two major prizes at the recently held UNLEASH event.
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These images are a vivid and electrifying depiction of isolation
Design Frontiers
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3 Jul 18
Step into Andrea Koporova’s haunting Ghost Town.
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