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Going solo
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In SOLO, Charity Vilakazi weaves African narratives with mythology to pay homage to her heritage and the matriarchy.
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13 Feb 23
Designing for urban mobility means learning from the past and predicting for the future
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Architecture & Interiors
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Urban & Landscape Design
Trans Utopias is an exhibition which explores the way we design our transport systems in the past, present and for the future.
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25 Jul 18
A Digital Drum is bringing computer skills to the youth in rural Uganda
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Design without Borders has developed a way to bridge the information gap between urban and rural youth of Uganda.
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15 May 18
The dismantled artworks of Raphaël Vicenzi
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Art & Photography
Inflexibility in art can be the downfall of the artist.
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9 Feb 17
Multimedia project remembers the forgotten victims of political imprisonment
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Based in Austria, Christoph Lingg documents the forgotten history of political prisoners all over the world.
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10 Mar 16
Digital library
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Architecture & Interiors
The Digital Library in Sao Paulo, Brazil, combines high-tech with analogue to create a comfortable look and feel for a family home.
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25 Jan 12
The reach
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MJ Turpin's latest multimedia show explores rites of passage, sacrifice, race and religion.
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5 Dec 11
Italian influence
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An exhibition at the Pretoria Art Museum celebrates the work of Italian-South African artists.
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14 Jun 11
Kentridge in five
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Creative Economy
William Kentridge: Five Themes catalogues the career of this iconic South African artist.
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2 Dec 09
CD: Shaka Won
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After their first album release in 2006, the cool kids of Mtkidu have (finally) released their second limited-edition album, Shaka Won.
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28 Nov 09
Animation meets theatre
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Theatre multi-tasker, Neil Coppen's recent production of Tree Boy introduced design, animation and multimedia to the Durban Playhouse.
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14 May 09
The mad Moxyland empire heads for world domination
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Moxyland is Lauren Beukes's debut novel giving rise to a growing multimedia empire of toys, a soundtrack and online materials.
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1 Nov 08
Design Indaba 2008: Create a better world
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Leading creative thinkers will converge at the Design Indaba Conference from Wednesday 27 February to Friday 29 February, 2008.
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2 Nov 07
Flash player
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Interaction Design
Interview with Flash guru Andries Odendaal.
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1 Nov 01
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