May 2019 Archive

Dong-Ping Wong on his ambitious work at FOOD architecture studio

Talks • 1 May 19

The architect's projects include an idea for a pool that also purifies the East River as well as collaborations with Kanye West and Virgil Abloh. >
John Pawson on the discipline of minimalism

Talks • 3 May 19

“It takes great discipline to reduce until you can't further subtract anymore." >
Alice Rawsthorn on bad design

Talks • 6 May 19

“We desperately need good design in this world and we desperately don't need bad design. That's why it's so important that we should come to terms with it.” >
Ida is a non-invasive, painless way to test blood/glucose levels

Talks • 7 May 19

“When designing for these diseases, you’re not designing to please or impress. You design because people are on fire and you might just have the water.” >
Annabelle Selldorf on architecture's responsibility beyond the building

Talks • 8 May 19

The veteran architect questions the greater role architects need to play after erecting projects in underresourced areas. >
How Hannah Barry is revolutionising the London art scene

Talks • 13 May 19

She may not call herself an art curator but Hannah Barry explains how she revived an art scene via an abandoned car park. >
Carolien Niebling is creating the sausage of the future

Talks • 14 May 19

Product designer Carolien Niebling believes that people can make a difference if they just take a moment to look at things a little differently. >
Tshepo Mokholo on the transformational power of architecture to inspire

Talks • 14 May 19

The African Design Centre graduate on how growing up in an unusual house in Soweto would later inspire his career in design. >
Mirjam de Bruijn's work explores the border between function and aesthetics

Talks • 15 May 19

She speaks about Twenty, a range of waterless dissolvable capsules that take away the need to use 80 - 95% water to make these products. >
Shaina Garfield on how we can benefit the Earth after death

Talks • 16 May 19

She shared how her project Leaves proposes a sustainable coffin that will help the body decompose naturally. >
Faith XLVII on the power of collaboration

Talks • 17 May 19

"Entering into collaborations with key people in my life has helped me rediscover my root inspiration." >
Steph Foster focuses his lens on the American prison system

Talks • 20 May 19

Interdisciplinary artist Steph Foster is using his art to investigate and address what's wrong with the United States criminal justice system. >
Kiko Farkas on nature's role in his work as a graphic designer

Talks • 21 May 19

He took the Design Indaba audience through his most famous project and showcased how nature inspired it. >
Adebayo Oke-Lawal is rethinking masculinity in African culture

Talks • 22 May 19

The Nigerian designer’s brand Orange Culture embraces those who do not fit in and celebrates their individuality. >
Freyja Sewell is designing cognitive training technology for the future

Talks • 23 May 19

The Royal College of Art graduate’s work focuses on meditation and developing technology for the mind. >
Gordon Reid on embracing the weird in design

Talks • 24 May 19

The graphic designer talks us through his design career and starting his own agency, Middleboop. >

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