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Hyphen Labs is using VR to create safe spaces for women of colour
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28 Feb 18
This VR project began when Ashley Baccus-Clark realised that there is no sunscreen that caters to her skin tone.
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Campbell Addy is disrupting the homogeneity of stock photography
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28 Feb 18
The photographer’s partnership with Getty Images is diversifying their imagery.
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Sarah Waiswa explores the persecution of those with albinism
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1 Mar 18
Called Stranger In a Familiar Land, her photo series addresses the treatment of those with the condition in Africa.
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9 Design Indaba speakers that told us more about the future of architecture
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1 Mar 18
How can the built world be improved? Take a look at the different approaches to architecture innovation presented by our speakers this year.
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Meet the women who are leading by design
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2 Mar 18
Design Indaba 2018 had the biggest contingent of women speakers and this is what they had to say.
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In pictures: The Tolerance Traveling Poster Show at Design Indaba 2018
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5 Mar 18
The idea behind the nomadic exhibition is to spread a simple message of humanity and reach the maximum amount of people.
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Côte d'Ivoire-based artist, Kadarik uses pop art as social commentary
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5 Mar 18
Pop Art that analyses modern society using, the Joker, Spiderman and Wonder Woman.
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How do you tackle piracy, the refugee crisis and learning new language using design?
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6 Mar 18
These Design Indaba 2017 speakers are leading the way.
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Nixie Girl rethinks menstrual cups for a new generation
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6 Mar 18
Redesigning menstrual products to appeal to a younger market.
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The Ki Ecobe shoe doesn’t use a single drop of glue
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6 Mar 18
The revolutionary, modular footwear can be self-assembled in less than five minutes.
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This enhanced man-made skin graft helps burn victims heal
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6 Mar 18
By combining collagen skin grafts with healthy skin cells, an MIT researcher created a scaffold that heals burn victims faster.
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Yannis Davy Guibinga interrogates the colour black and its relation to death
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7 Mar 18
The artist’s new photo series unpacks the colour black as a symbol of darkness, mourning and death.
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Swedish design gallery celebrates the monumental failures of the product design world
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7 Mar 18
We so often learn about the breakthroughs, the triumphs and innovations of creativity – what about the blunders?
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Lebo Mashile breathes inner life into the story of Saartjie Baartman
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7 Mar 18
“For the first time, Saartjie's life as an artist and as a performer – because she defined herself as an artist – made a lot of sense to me."
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Replace pads, tampons and cups with this eco-friendly alternative
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8 Mar 18
One WUKA is said to replace 100 tampons or pads from polluting the planet.
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On the dying practice of female facial tattoos in North Africa
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8 Mar 18
Photographer Yumna Al-Arashi travelled to villages in Algeria, Morocco and Tunisia to document the disappearing custom of female facial tattoos.
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Waterstudio’s Parthenon seawall doubles as natural energy generator
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9 Mar 18
This Dutch design company explores water-based solutions for urban planning.
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Nike designs shoebox made out of recycled milk containers and coffee lids
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9 Mar 18
The sportswear giant teamed up with Taiwanese architect and engineer Arthur Huang to create multi-functional shoe boxes.
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Indian architect Balkrishna Doshi awarded the 2018 Pritzker Prize
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9 Mar 18
Doshi believes the award will draw attention to the capacity for architecture to trigger social upliftment.
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Michael Candy’s 3D-printed flowers could save dwindling bee populations
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9 Mar 18
This design intervenes in the risk-prone world of pollination using robotic flowers.
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Art as an exploration of the self and an interrogation of the world with Buhlebezwe Siwani
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10 Mar 18
"I’ve always said if art doesn’t engage socially what are you making it for?"
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An industrial design graduate has created an Emotional First Aid Kit
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12 Mar 18
Rui Sun tackles the question, “Why do so many products ease physical pain and so few treat emotional stress?”
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Code artist Zach Lieberman launches Weird Type in collaboration with Design Indaba
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12 Mar 18
“How does typography change when it is spatial, when we can move around it and it exists in 3D space?”
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Food designer Chloé Rutzerveld turns waste into healthy treats
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12 Mar 18
This edible innovation addresses wastage in the food industry – with delicious results.
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