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Why Mexican squares may be the best public spaces in the world

Design Frontiers > Architecture & Interiors / Industrial Design / Urban & Landscape Design

Plaza Ciudadela won’t win any design awards, but it accomplishes something far more important: it draws a crowd of all ages. >

12 Jul 19
Hafeez Floris captures the other side of South Africa's townships

Design Frontiers > Art & Photography

His photography shows the more childlike and creative side to people in areas like Manenberg and Soweto. >

12 Jul 19
Skip the trip to the fertility clinic with Yo Home Sperm

Design Frontiers > Product Design

In just a few minutes, this app offers men valuable reproductive information. >

11 Jul 19
Les Chaises Koubeyni is an artistic response to the concept of hospitality

Design Frontiers > Architecture & Interiors / Creative Economy / Product Design

In Niger's capital city, Niamey, artists from the city as well as those from Madrid got together to build an amulet to reflect on hospitality. >

10 Jul 19
Atolye on creating a space where community and strategic design meet

Design Frontiers > Architecture & Interiors / Creative Economy / Product Design

"There are many untapped markets as well as industries that need radical interventions" says architect Nesile Yalcin. >

9 Jul 19
Grow edible algae in your home

Design Frontiers > Design Activism / Food Design

The Coral is an indoor micro-algae farm designed to welcome algae into our everyday lives. >

9 Jul 19
This lightweight, flexible shoe is made from ‘algae foam’

Design Frontiers > Product Design

VIVOBAREFOOT and Bloom team up on the world’s first shoe made with the material. >

8 Jul 19
How floating homes will help people in flood-prone countries

Design Frontiers > Architecture & Interiors / Design Activism / Design Thinking / Urban & Landscape Design

Dream Homes is a project by Dundee University in which they co-designed with local Bangladeshis to create resilient floating homes. >

8 Jul 19
Colourful totems in Poland carry strong message about climate change

Design Frontiers > Architecture & Interiors / Industrial Design

Totemy by Alicja Biała and former Design Indaba speaker, Iwo Borkowicz, symbolises the relationship between people and the forces of nature. >

5 Jul 19
Thaakierah Abdul is using graphic design to push for Cape Malay recognition

Design Frontiers > Graphic Design & Illustration

The 2018 Design Indaba Emerging Creative draws inspiration from her family and people in the streets like informal traders. >

3 Jul 19
Six designers tackle sustainability from food, waste and even death

Design Frontiers > Design Activism / Design Thinking / Food Design / Product Design

These Design Indaba 2019 speakers are working to design more sustainable methods and products. >

2 Jul 19
This museum preserves Brazil's cultural and craft memory

Design Frontiers > Art & Photography / Craft / Creative Economy / Design Activism

The A CASA Museum of the Brazilian Object has dedicated 21 years to preserving the rich cultural history of the Brazilian people. >

1 Jul 19
Call for applications: Summer programme 2019

Design Frontiers > Creative Economy / Design Activism

The University of the Underground and the Hannah Arendt Center at Bard College invite you to apply for POST-NATION STATES, Summer School 19 in NYC. >

27 Jun 19
Using empathic design to save the lives of pregnant women

Design Frontiers > African Design / Design Activism / Design Thinking / Product Design

How Caroline Smeenk and Dahabo Adi Galgallo are saving the lives of mothers and their unborn children, on opposite sides of the world. >

24 Jun 19
Students explore death through a video game and our fascination with fake goods

Design Frontiers > Architecture & Interiors / Art & Photography / Design Activism / Design Thinking / Fashion & Jewellery Design / Film & Animation / Graphic Design & Illustration / Information Design

We spotlight the work of two graduates from the University of the Underground which was started by Dr Nelly Ben-Hayoun. >

20 Jun 19
Applications for African Crossroads 2019 are now open!

Design Frontiers > African Design / Architecture & Interiors / Art & Photography / Craft / Creative Economy / Design Activism / Design Thinking / Information Design / Interaction Design

Hivos is looking for content proposals from artists, entrepreneurs, chefs, designers, researchers, to imagine the future of African cities. >

19 Jun 19
Connextyle is providing multi-sensory healing for stroke patients

Design Frontiers > Craft / Creative Economy / Design Activism / Design Thinking / Fashion & Jewellery Design / Interaction Design / Product Design

Inspired by the ancient Japanese technique of Kintsugi, the Connextyle shirt is a rehabilitation garment that helps stroke patients regain their muscle use. >

17 Jun 19
Sunny Dolat wants to set a new standard for African fashion

Design Frontiers > African Design / Art & Photography / Creative Economy

A small island off the coast of West Africa is about to host a truly representative African arts and fashion festival. >

14 Jun 19
How fashion adapted to climate change – in the Little Ice Age

Design Frontiers > Design Activism / Design Thinking / Fashion & Jewellery Design

People see global warming as a modern phenomenon, but fashion has a long history of responding to climate change. >

14 Jun 19
How artists and architects are helping residents to claim their right to the city

Design Frontiers > Architecture & Interiors / Art & Photography / Creative Economy / Design Activism

Grigri Pixel invited a group a creatives from Africa and Spain to work together in Madrid to try and find out. >

14 Jun 19
Post-colonial Congolese architecture: green, local and volcanic

Design Frontiers > African Design / Architecture & Interiors / Urban & Landscape Design

Designer Nicolas-Patience Basabose talks about the past and the future of architecture in the DRC. >

12 Jun 19
From refugee camp to fashion runway

Design Frontiers > African Design / Art & Photography / Design Activism / Fashion & Jewellery Design

Motivated by experiences of displacement, these designers are using fashion to tell their story of war and strife and in doing so, helping refugee communities. >

11 Jun 19
Sand: Overmined and underecognised

Design Frontiers > Design Activism

Sand, a resource usually taken for granted, is being drastically overmined, resulting in the destruction of major ecosystems worldwide. >

10 Jun 19
DJ Steloo's latest work looks to the ocean for inspiration

Design Frontiers > African Design / Art & Photography / Creative Economy

Called Stitches From The Ocean, the Accra-based creative says he wanted to let the audience into the other side of his creative process. >

5 Jun 19

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