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Creative trifecta curates 2020’s hottest new names!
Festival News
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17 Dec 19
For 2020, the three invited curators of the annual Design Indaba Emerging Creatives programme constitute a thrilling trifecta of top local talent.
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Tech that reawakens awe – studio DRIFT's kinetic installations to light up #DI2020
Festival News
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11 Dec 19
The multidisciplinary studio will be speaking at Design Indaba 2020.
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Exploring the connection between aromas and our memory
Design News
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6 Dec 19
“It’s really important for us to make emotion that could differentiate smell in how something makes you feel when you smell it.”
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Antya Waegemann redesigns the rape kit
Next Generation
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2 Dec 19
The 'When No One Believes You' rape kit includes six different design interventions for use by victims, nurses and the police.
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Ignis uses household materials to create a safe, reliable source of energy
Next Generation
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2 Dec 19
Antenna 2019 speaker Tobias Trubenbacher created Ignis to help provide clean and affordable energy to those without access to electricity.
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Camila Chiriboga on fashion that brings dignity to differently-abled people
Next Generation
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2 Dec 19
The antenna 2019 speaker created Veº, an inclusive system of fashion for the blind and visually impaired.
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Interdisciplinary architectural design practice Neri&Hu use research as a design tool
Design News
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2 Dec 19
The Shanghai-based Lyndon Neri and Rossana Hu spoke at Design Indaba 2020.
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Using art activism to fight gender-based violence
Design News
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2 Dec 19
Artists and creatives came together for the 'Rise' exhibition to raise awareness about gender-based violence in South Africa.
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Natsai Audrey Chieza is pioneering new models for design and technology that are driven by ecological thinking
Design Frontiers
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2 Dec 19
The biodesigner spoke at the 2020 Design Indaba Conference.
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Sunny Dolat is opening up the space for a more nuanced discussion on African fashion
Design Frontiers
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29 Nov 19
The creative director and cultural producer will be speaking at Design Indaba 2020.
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Li Edelkoort leads with an important green message
Festival News
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29 Nov 19
Futurist Li Edelkoort hosted an inspiring new trend seminar at Design Indaba 2020.
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Sum Waste turns waste into functional products like pens
Next Generation
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29 Nov 19
Pratt University graduate Garret Benisch says he wanted to show what happens when one sees waste as an asset rather than a problem.
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The Coral Farm allows you to grow algae at home
Design News
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29 Nov 19
Hyun Seok An's project was inspired by a UN World Food Conference that named algae ‘the most ideal food for mankind.’
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P Bank is a public toilet facility that offers a solution to the phosphorus scarcity
Design News
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28 Nov 19
P Bank allows visitors to make a donation of Phosphorus, which is currently endangered due to high consumption levels.
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6 clever design solutions for pressing healthcare issues
Take Five
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28 Nov 19
We highlight some of the design solutions aimed at healthcare sector.
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The Sumo Diaper is an eco-friendly and fully biodegradable diaper
Next Generation
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28 Nov 19
The product was created by Luisa Kahlfeldt using a cellulose fiber that is made from eucalyptus wood pulp and brown algae extracts.
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Re:flex is a material that can be reprogrammed using heat
Design News
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28 Nov 19
Dutch product designer Karlijn Sibbel says she and her team wanted to create a material that adapts to changes the way nature does.
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Ghana’s wunderkind Ibrahim Mahama to shared his monumental artworks at Design Indaba 2020
Festival News
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27 Nov 19
Ibrahim Mahama spoke at the 2020 Design Indaba Conference.
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Zana Masombuka on Ndebele Superhero as a process of reimagination
Next Generation
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26 Nov 19
“Africans need to interpret their history themselves and seek to reinvent Africa according to their own terms.”
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Jack Newbury has designed an inclusive sexual education kit
Design News
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25 Nov 19
The design student says this new kit and curriculum, a first for the UK, is inclusive of the LGBTQ+ community and other types of sexual practices.
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Kinya Tagawa on threading humanity into the tech world
Design News
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20 Nov 19
The Japanese designer and engineer will be speaking at Design Indaba 2020.
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Ghanaian artist Ibrahim Mahama will be speaking at Design Indaba 2020
Design Frontiers
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20 Nov 19
The artist and author is famed for draping buildings in materials, like jute sacks, as a comment on our complicated colonial histories.
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Self-taught Mexican artist on creating artwork that speaks to the masses
Design News
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19 Nov 19
“I am totally self-taught, which gives me full freedom of experimentation."
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Kenyan fashion designer Anyango Mpinga on how she uses fashion to inspire change
Design Frontiers
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19 Nov 19
Mpinga tells us how soap operas, dragonflies and sound waves all came together to create the Anyango Mpinga label.
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