Home
a better world through creativity
  • Home
    • About Design Indaba
    • Design Indaba News
    • Projects
    • Press Room
  • Emerging Creatives
  • News & Features
    • Design News
    • Africa Now
    • Creative Work
    • Interviews
    • Next Generation
    • Design Frontiers
    • African Design
    • Design Activism
    • Videos
  • Conference Talks
    • Video Archive (2006 – present)
  • Designer Directory
    • Our database of African and international creatives and companies making waves in the design world.

Architecture for Humanity

  • Francis Kéré won the Gold Holcim Award in 2012 for the Secondary School Gando in Burkina Faso.
    Focus on: Architects at UIA 2014
    Focus On > Architecture & Interiors
    Watch these interviews from our archives with four architects speaking at the International Union of Architects World Congress in Durban. >
    3 Aug 14
  • The Little Architect Toolset by Carlos Ng. Image: Martin Seck.
    Next Generation: Student design for social good
    Next Generation > Design Activism / Product Design
    Third year product design students from Parsons partnered with Areaware to design small "impulse buy" gifts with a portion of the proceeds going to a charity. >
    23 May 14
  • Cameron Sinclair at What Design Can Do
    Video Interviews > Architecture & Interiors
    Cameron Sinclair on transforming communities, and using architecture to create jobs and other opportunities. >
    28 Jun 12
  • DJ Spooky.
    Architecture auction
    Design News > Graphic Design & Illustration
    Architecture for Humanity's Charity Auction is using the power of design to build a more sustainable future, with contributions from top designers. >
    26 Jun 12
  • Alarming relief
    Design News > Industrial Design / Product Design
    Sales of Jasper Morrison's limited-edition red-and-white AC01 Punkt Alarm Clock to aid reconstruction of earthquake-affected Japan. >
    6 Oct 11
  • Hope 2.0
    Opinion > Architecture & Interiors
    The FIFA 20 Centres for 2010 exemplify how world sustainability can be underwritten by Africa’s bountiful endurance. >
    9 Feb 10
  • Side profile
    Profiling > Design Thinking
    Starchitect Cameron Sinclair has been recognised as a Young Global Leader by the World Economic Forum. >
    1 Aug 08
  • Design Indaba 10… Ideas
    Festival News > Design Thinking
    Not accepting the status quo was a recurring theme at the tenth Design Indaba in Cape Town this year. >
    1 May 07
  • Shop talk
    Festival News > Architecture & Interiors / Design Thinking / Fashion & Jewellery Design
    The Design Indaba will, for the first time, offer three exciting talkshops on Friday 23 February 2007. >
    1 Feb 07
Sign up to our newsletter
Sign up to Design Indaba Weekly for the latest design news and inspiration. Sign up to Design Indaba News for updates on Design Indaba events and projects.
Design Indaba (select one or both)

Top Features

  • Inside View

Regulars

  • Take Five
    6 clever design solutions for pressing healthcare issues
    28 Nov 19
  • Singapore flag
    Focus On
    Five examples of great design from Singapore
    17 Sep 18
  • Work of Luke Rudman
    Lookbook
    A look into the work of Luke Rudman
    3 Feb 22
  • Directed by Amirah Tajdin, “Minerva’s Lillie’s” is a personal portrait of femininity, sisterhood, magic and mothers.
    FilmFestFriday
    This short film is a meditation on the joys girlhood
    12 Feb 16

TwitterFollow @designindaba

Tweets by @designindaba

  • About
  • Contact
  • Advertise
  • Submit Work
  • Login
  • Sitemap
  • Terms of Use
Design Indaba®, Cape Town Design Week® and South African Design Week® are registered trademarks of Interactive Africa.
Design Indaba is the founding event of Cape Town Design Festival™ and South African Design Festival™.
© 1995 - 2026 | Design Indaba. All Rights Reserved.