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social upliftment

  • Iota
    The Iota Project: blending bespoke furniture creation with social upliftment
    Design Frontiers > Design Activism / Industrial Design
    These beautiful handmade objects are creating jobs for unemployed women. >
    17 Mar 17
  • Silindokuhle Creche
    The beauty of sustainable design in Joe Slovo West Community Project
    Video Interviews > African Design / Architecture & Interiors
    Hanneke Schutte tells us why she nominated this community upliftment project for Most Beautiful Object in South Africa 2017. >
    1 Feb 17
  • Harvest mural by Faith47 lit up at night. Photo by Rowan Pybus @Makhulu_
    Support #AnotherLightUp on Mandela Day
    Do Tank News > Art & Photography / Design Activism
    If you haven't found your Mandela Day project yet, here is an opportunity to get involved and make a real difference in the lives of local citizens. >
    15 Jul 14
  • Harvest mural by Faith47 lit up at night. Photo by Rowan Pybus @Makhulu_
    Thundafund kicks off campaign for #ANOTHERLIGHTUP
    Do Tank News > Art & Photography / Design Activism / Design Thinking / Interaction Design
    Today Thundafund launches a drive to incentivise donations to #ANOTHERLIGHTUP based on a model of reciprocity. >
    5 Jun 14
  • Design Indaba Trust
    Design Indaba Trust
    Design Indaba Trust is a not-for-profit company that makes possible projects and initiatives dedicated to design education and development in South Africa. >
    5 Mar 14
  • Alfredo Brillembourg at What Design Can Do 2013.
    Alfredo Brillembourg: Design can empower people
    Video Interviews > Architecture & Interiors
    In an interview at this year’s What Design Can Do conference, Alfredo Brillembourg spoke about the ways design can be used to rethink values and empower people. >
    13 Jun 13 / Brand Collaboration
  • 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
  • Pictures speak louder than prisoners
    Design News > Design Thinking
    Creative life-skills programme Young in Prison displays its outcomes at Word of Art studios in Cape Town. >
    15 Nov 09
  • Less can be better
    Design News > Product Design / Design Thinking
    Lisbon-based design, architecture and creativity biennale, ExperimentaDesign, celebrated its 10th anniversary in 2009. >
    29 Oct 09
  • Beads go ape
    Reviews > Craft / Creative Economy
    Bead by Bead presents the uplifting story of Monkeybiz, from original lightbulb moment to the beacon of social upliftment it is today. >
    2 May 08
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