• Design Indaba Festival 2016

    Design Indaba Festival 2016 brings its annual celebration of creativity to six Southern African cities, showcasing design across a variety of formats and empowering the local creative economy.
Design Indaba Festival 2016

For 2016, Design Indaba Festival is growing its national footprint. Burgeoning from its flagship three-day Conference held this year at Artscape Theatre in Cape Town, now broadcast via live simulcast to six Southern African cities, each event will form a hub of creative activity.

From the FilmFest to music and live performances, exhibitions and installations showcasing local design, Design Indaba 2016 is empowering the creative economy like never before.

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Most Beautiful Object in South Africa (MBOISA)
  • MBOISA 2016
    MBOISA 2016
    How do you perceive beauty? Challenging notions of beauty in design, MBOISA is Design Indaba's annual endeavour to name the Most Beautiful Object in South Africa.>
Design Indaba FilmFest 2016
  • Design Indaba FilmFest 2016
    Design Indaba FilmFest 2016
    Design Indaba FilmFest 2016 presented by Nedbank opens the annual Design Indaba Festival with a 10-day film festival in Cape Town, and 3-day iterations in Johannesburg, Durban, Potchefstroom and PE.>
Li Edelkoort Design & Lifestyle Forecast Seminar 2016

Professionals: R650

Students: R550 (must present a student card)

Ticket sales now open:

Johannesburg 15 Feb | Cape Town 21 Feb | 
Emerging Creatives 2016
  • Design Indaba & DAC Emerging Creatives 2016
    Emerging Creatives 2016
    The Emerging Creatives Class of 2016 – South Africa's hottest upcoming creative talent – debut at an exhibition presented by DAC at the V&A Watershed during #DesignIndaba2016 from 19 to 21 Feb.>
Design Indaba Conference & Simulcasts
  • Design Indaba Conference 2016
    Experience the wonder of creativity. Design Indaba Festival 2016 presents its flagship creative conference from 17 to 19 February 2016 in Cape Town and broadcast live to 6 Southern African cities.>
Design Indaba Official After Party

Details to be confirmed
Nedbank presents Beatenberg and Kyle Shepherd Trio Collaboration
Li Edelkoort Design & Lifestyle Forecast Seminar 2016

Professionals: R650

Students: R550 (must present a student card)

Ticket sales now open:

Johannesburg 15 Feb | Cape Town 21 Feb | 
Please note that the programme and speaker listings are subject to change without prior notice. Download Design Indaba's Festival App for real-time updates.

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