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Urban designer Alice Cabaret on innovation in challenging places like Maboneng

Design Frontiers > Urban & Landscape Design

"[Maboneng] has also helped to open a very needed debate, in academic and social circles, about urban transformation in complex contexts like Johannesburg."

5 Apr 19
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Dave Hakkens on tackling the planet's waste

Talks > Creative Economy

“When I start something I like to start with a problem.”

5 Apr 19 / Design Indaba Conference 2019
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Neri Oxman’s installation exploring the possibilities of melanin

Design Frontiers > Architecture & Interiors

Through digital fabrication and design computation, the pigment could sustain and enhance the planet’s endangered biodiversity.

5 Apr 19
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Sir David Adjaye designs memorial in honour of Hugh Masekela

Design Frontiers > African Design

The Masekela family, in collaboration with Design Indaba, will be unveiling a memorial pavilion during youth month.

4 Apr 19
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David Droga on why he is still optimistic about advertising

Talks > Creative Economy

“Linear and logical people make the world go round, but it’s the creative people who make it worth living in."

4 Apr 19 / Design Indaba Conference 2019
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On building a disappearing city in the Moroccan Sahara

Design Frontiers > Architecture & Interiors

"As designers, architects know how to build cities, but our field as a whole has not yet grasped how to make them disappear."

4 Apr 19
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The whimsical illustrations of Monica Obaga

Design Frontiers > African Design

“I would say my aesthetic has always been whimsical because all my favourite media as a child were musicals, cartoons, books, comics and fashion.”

3 Apr 19
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Wanuri Kahiu on using film to talk about Africans as joyful and radiant

Talks > Art & Photography

“I realised that there is more images and more stories of joy than there is of remorse,” Kahiu says of her search for African stories of joy.

3 Apr 19 / Design Indaba Conference 2019
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Youngsta: Rapping the stories of the Cape Colony

Design News > African Design

We sat down with one of South African rap's busiest and most artists.

3 Apr 19
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IKEA ÖVERALLT: In the designers' words

Talks > African Design

At Design Indaba Conference 2019, the group of African designers share the motivations behind the products they dreamed up and realised.

2 Apr 19 / Design Indaba Conference 2019

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