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A changing landscape

Design News • 29 Jul 21 • Sponsored Content

This week: Design takes Gold in Tokyo; the war on waste; and artists changing norms… >
No Waste Challenge 2021 winner Mapu is the world’s first active sound system made of clay, wood, cork and wool

Design News • 26 Jul 21 • Sponsored Content

Craft-led Mapu proves that eco-friendly materials can replace plastics in electronics >
Pavilion Tokyo 2021 is a public arts intervention featuring former #DI Speaker Sou Fujimoto

Design News • 26 Jul 21 • Sponsored Content

Sou Fujimoto’s whimsical Cloud Pavilion adds visual poetry to urban Tokyo >
#DI Exclusive: Steloolive launches his latest experimental project, NiKANiKA Robotics

Design News • 26 Jul 21 • Sponsored Content

Maverick Ghanian muso and #DI18 performer Steloolive shares his most recent artistic explorations with us >
#DI Exclusive: Steloolive launches his latest experimental project, NiKANiKA Robotics

Design News • 26 Jul 21 • Sponsored Content

Maverick Ghanian muso and #DI18 performer Steloolive shares his most recent artistic explorations with us >
Design that envisions a better future

Design News • 22 Jul 21 • Sponsored Content

No Waste winners, parks that halt climate change, & fashion that empowers… >
LOLA and Piet Oudolf’s visionary new landscaping book and exhibition focuses on public gardens as a solution to climate change

Design News • 19 Jul 21 • Sponsored Content

Explore former #DI Speaker Peter Veenstra’s fertile new collab with Piet Oudolf >
No Waste Challenge winners announced!

Design News • 16 Jul 21 • Sponsored Content

Sixteen global waste-busters awarded top honours by What Design Can Do. >
Exploring Woven Cosmos, Kenyan biophilia, music’s mavericks, & our newest multimedia-ists

Design News • 15 Jul 21 • Sponsored Content

New worlds >
Kéré Architecture’s Startup Lions Campus is set to inspire future achievers

Design News • 12 Jul 21 • Sponsored Content

Former #DI Speaker Diébédo Francis Kéré designs a new nature-inspired landmark in Kenya. >
Hella Jongerius - a former #DI Speaker - welcomes you into her magical world of weaving

Design News • 12 Jul 21 • Sponsored Content

Woven Cosmos, Hella Jongerius’ interactive show, demonstrates 25 years of textile wisdom. >
Why KoolKiel’s cool, Kenya’s new CAMO-flage, proud LGBTQIA+ garb, & more!

Design News • 8 Jul 21 • Sponsored Content

A shot of Expression >
Kenyan photographer Thandiwe Muriu’s Parisian show stands out by blending in

Design News • 5 Jul 21 • Sponsored Content

Thandiwe Muriu’s CAMO series celebrates being African by playing with colour and culture. >
#DI Speaker Winy Maas’s latest MVRDV project, KoolKiel, is a community-engaged, resident-designed building

Design News • 5 Jul 21 • Sponsored Content

For its new building project in Germany, MVRDV has asked the community what they want. >
Spoon Archaeology examines plastic cutlery, hopefully, as a relic of the past

Design News • 28 Jun 21 • Sponsored Content

Kai Linke and Peter Eckart put 20 years of plastic cutlery on museum display. >
Tadao Ando, NeM and Bouroullec Brothers transform La Bourse de Commerce

Design News • 28 Jun 21 • Sponsored Content

La Bourse de Commerce - Pinault Collection bridges past and present. >
Reframing specs, a sustainable high-speed train, and adaptable materials

Design News • 23 Jun 21 • Sponsored Content

Seeing into the future. >
#DI Global Graduate Ackeem Ngwenya envisions a future of fashion inclusivity with REFRAMD eyewear

Design News • 21 Jun 21 • Sponsored Content

REFRAMD’s vision is one of individualized solutions to eyewear. >
#DI Alumnus Snøhetta takes Green Building One Step further by Developing Sustainable Concrete

Design News • 14 Jun 21 • Sponsored Content

Norwegian studio Snøhetta’s pioneering new forms of concrete will change the urban landscape for the better. >
#DI Speaker Sir David Adjaye Showcases his Sculpture alongside Painting by Adam Pendleton

Design News • 14 Jun 21 • Sponsored Content

Pace Gallery’s dynamic two-person show explores identity and language. >
#DI Speaker Bjarke Ingels’ O-Tower Combines Architectural Prowess and Cutting-Edge Sustainability

Design News • 14 Jun 21 • Sponsored Content

This future landmark by BIG (Bjarke Ingels Group) embodies design elegance and innovative technology. >
South African Firm Counterspace’s Much-Anticipated Serpentine Pavilion Finally Opens to the Public

Design News • 14 Jun 21 • Sponsored Content

Postponed to 2021, Counterspace’s 2020 Serpentine Pavilion celebrates places of meeting. >
Get design’s latest: Louvre’s 1st female leader, PoAD opens, & Heatherwick floats Little Island…

Design News • 10 Jun 21 • Sponsored Content

Innovation, engagement, and leadership are our watchwords this week. >
Souped Up Salone – Milano’s Innovative Response to a Year without its Furniture Fair

Design News • 7 Jun 21 • Sponsored Content

Salone del Mobile announces the ‘Supersalone’ for September 2021. >

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Melting pot

Q&A • 6 Mar 22

Buhle Nkalashe’s powerful artworks are steeped in isiXhosa, isiZulu and Ndebele traditions >
Pool poetics

Design News • 6 Mar 22

Kanya Viljoen’s Eurydice makes use of femme narratives in a waterless pool >
Igloo eatery

Design Frontiers • 6 Mar 22

Japan’s Kamakura Village pop-up eatery serves traditional fare in icy igloos for one month a year >
From dawn to dust

Design News • 6 Mar 22

Katie Paterson’s Requiem will change the way you think about dust >