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Former Design Indaba Emerging Creative Andile Dyalvane Mounts 2nd Ceramics Solo Show in New York
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17 May 21
Ceramicist Andile Dyalvane’s iThongo communes with the ancestors via symbolic seating.
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Art Beyond Boundaries
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13 May 21
These Young Artists are Drawing on Myriad Tools to Make Magic. .
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Graphic Content Ahead!
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13 May 21
Designing for Life.
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A Symbiotic Work in Partnership with Biology, #DI Speaker Olafur Eliasson’s Life lets Nature Take its Course
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13 May 21
Showing at Fondation Beyeler, Olafur Eliasson’s new installation dissolves the boundaries between nature and art.
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Communicating with the Ancestors: Former Design Indaba Emerging Creative and MBOISA Nominee Thebe Magugu Draws on African Spirituality for his Alchemy AW21 Collection
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7 May 21
Acclaimed fashion designer Thebe Magugu’s AW21 garments, campaign and short film explore African spirituality and global textile traditions.
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We Interview Former Design Indaba Emerging Creative Mpho Vackier in TheUrbanative’s New Homecoming Collection
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7 May 21
A collaborative collection birthed during lockdown brings together designers from different disciplines to celebrate home, and the continent.
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With Afrowaste, Nigerian Designer Dimeji Ilori turns Discarded Clothes into One-Of-A-Kind Treasures
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7 May 21
Afrowaste is a fashion mash-up that blends old and new, Western and African.
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The Thabo Mbeki Presidential Library by Sir David Adjaye will form a Nexus of African Discourse and Excellence in Johannesburg
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7 May 21
DI Speaker Sir David Adjaye’s new design reveals a space dedicated to the African Renaissance.
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Waterlight Converts Water into Energy with its Innovative Seawater-Powered Lamp
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3 May 21
An innovation designed to serve communities with no access to electricity, WaterLight makes use of an available natural resource.
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A Home 3D-Printed Out of Earth? Mario Cucinella Architects Teams Up with WASP to Create TECLA
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3 May 21
Ancient earth and 21st century technology come together as housing for the future.
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Can Face Masks Be Fashionable? Should They Be? Kat Van Duinen Contemplates These Pandemic-Born Questions
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3 May 21
Cape Town-based fashion designer Kat van Duinen tailors a sartorial response to the pandemic.
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Cabin Fever: Moriko and Living in Nature Inspire with Myriad Ways to Interpret Low-Key Country Living
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3 May 21
Moriko Cabins are prompted by the need to connect with nature.
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Inspiring Spaces
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30 Apr 21
The sweet spot where form meets function.
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Yinka Ilori’s New 20-Piece Homeware Collection Merges African and English Customs
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26 Apr 21
Design Indaba Speaker Yinka Ilori’s bright and colourful new homeware incorporates his signature motifs.
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Sweden’s Onmateria Imagines a Future for the Hotel Industry hat’s Lighter on the Planet
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26 Apr 21
Green Box – an innovative biodegradable system of hotel amenities.
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The Ideal City – A Crowd-Sourced Recipe for Building the Cities of the Future
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26 Apr 21
SPACE10 and gestalten’s new book release asks experts how to create better cities.
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Neri Oxman’s Silk Pavilion II Turns Metamorphosis into Art
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26 Apr 21
Built by silkworms – a cross-species collaboration.
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The Pen is Mighty
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23 Apr 21
Past meets present in a powerful new era of illustration.
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Tin & Ed’s virtual playground with the Rockefeller Center in New York City will Transport and Inspire
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21 Apr 21
Tin & Ed straddle the divide between art, nature and technology with their latest interactive installation.
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Diébédo Francis Kéré wins Thomas Jefferson Foundation Medal for Architecture
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21 Apr 21
Design Indaba Speaker Diébédo Francis Kéré produces architectural work that inspires and unites.
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Creative Campus: DI Speaker Annabelle Selldorf’s Role in the New LUMA Arles
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20 Apr 21
Selldorf Architects transforms railway structures into exhibition and performance spaces.
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Skinny LaMinx Chats to us about a New Collaboration Inspired by the Sea Point Promenade
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20 Apr 21
Former Design Indaba Emerging Creative Heather Moore has based her new Skinny LaMinx range on one of Cape Town’s most celebrated seaboard spaces.
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Vincent Callebaut’s Pollinator Park Brings People into Harmony with Nature’s Pollinators
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20 Apr 21
This futuristic VR experience by the world-renowned ‘archiobiotect’ has a special focus on pollinators.
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A Future Vision
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16 Apr 21
These next-gen artists are expanding our horizons.
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