June 2019 Archive

Marjan van Aubel uses intelligent design to solve energy and food production problems

Design News • 3 Jun 19

In her work she looks at our current relationship with solar technology and how it can be used to enhance and future-proof city living. >
The African projects harnessing alternative energy

Design News • 3 Jun 19

“We must be more ambitious in harnessing the power of renewable energy to meet sustainable development and climate goals” >
The Hugh Masekela Memorial Pavilion Unveiled

Festival News • 3 Jun 19

Designed by architect Sir David Adjaye, the Hugh Masekela Memorial was unveiled on 1 June 2019. >
Celine Semaan wants to solve fashion's sustainability problem

Design Frontiers • 4 Jun 19

The culture and climate thought leader is working with everyone from the UN to students to tackle fashion's sustainability problem. >
Lucia Bakulumpagi-Wamala on new ways to tackle electricity shortage in Uganda

Design News • 4 Jun 19

The CEO of Bakulu Power takes us through their work in Buvuma, one of the only districts without electricity in the country. >
DJ Steloo's latest work looks to the ocean for inspiration

Design Frontiers • 5 Jun 19

Called Stitches From The Ocean, the Accra-based creative says he wanted to let the audience into the other side of his creative process. >
Gabrielle Goliath honours victims of sexual-based violence through sound and art

Design News • 5 Jun 19

The winner of this year's Standard Bank Young Artist Award talks about her latest project called This Song is For... >
Doctor turned designer Kgahlego Kewana talks us through her unlikely path

Design News • 6 Jun 19

The Emerging Creative exhibited her work at the Design Indaba Festival 2019 among 49 up-and-coming South African talents. >
Turning refugee bunkers into privacy pods using minimalist design

Next Generation • Duration: 00:06:05 • 7 Jun 19

“I tried to create a kind of privacy pod around the only space the individual has: their beds.” >
African architecture: Ornaments, crime & prejudice

Opinion • 7 Jun 19

Mathias Agbo, Jr. reflects on the importance of African ornamentation and the stories they convey. >
Sand: Overmined and underecognised

Design Frontiers • 10 Jun 19

Sand, a resource usually taken for granted, is being drastically overmined, resulting in the destruction of major ecosystems worldwide. >
A collective of artists are preserving Mexico's linguistic diversity

Design News • 10 Jun 19

“No one can love what he does not know.” >
This town in Mali is built almost completely out of mud

Design News • 11 Jun 19

The Great Mosque of Djenne survives through the dedication of local builders who help to re-plaster it each year. >
From refugee camp to fashion runway

Design Frontiers • 11 Jun 19

Motivated by experiences of displacement, these designers are using fashion to tell their story of war and strife and in doing so, helping refugee communities. >
Avoid projecting: Kot Bonkers is neither a political nor a feminist artist

Design News • 11 Jun 19

Kot Bonkers is a brazen illustrator who fiercely defends her right to draw for the sake of it and identify with no political groups, despite audience opinion. >
The world’s first bio-brick made from human urine

Design News • 11 Jun 19

Its developer wants us to rethink the way we are utilising the Earth's precious resources. >
An alternative to disposable plastic made with potatoes

Design News • 12 Jun 19

“This material is made from something that comes from the earth, and later on it can end up back in the soil, while posing no risk to nature.” >
Art for the soul and your lungs

Design News • 12 Jun 19

Spanish art collective Boa Mistura have created a 35m-tall mural that purifies the air. >
Babusi Nyoni is making AI more accessible and relevant

Design News • 12 Jun 19

The Zimbabwean developer made a gqom and vosho app and also worked with UNHCR to predict the movements of displaced people. >
Post-colonial Congolese architecture: green, local and volcanic

Design Frontiers • 12 Jun 19

Designer Nicolas-Patience Basabose talks about the past and the future of architecture in the DRC. >
How artists and architects are helping residents to claim their right to the city

Design Frontiers • 14 Jun 19

Grigri Pixel invited a group a creatives from Africa and Spain to work together in Madrid to try and find out. >
Graphic designer Rofhiwa Mudau is using famous faces to inspire the youth

Design News • 14 Jun 19

“This acts as inspiration to influence a positive work flow to the career or the job of your dreams.” >
Design Indaba launches the Future Cities Residency

Festival News • 14 Jun 19

Paloma Strelitz is the first resident of the Design Indaba Future Cities Residency. >
Ghanaian photographer Lawrence Agyei on the power of photography

Design News • 14 Jun 19

“To me, a great photograph is like poetry. It captures and expresses a situation or emotion that transcends everyday life.” >

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