Germany | Design Indaba

Vertical Farmhouse

A design concept that connects farm, commercial and residential city life >
Fictional Nature

A striking exploration of the intersection between art and environmental consciousness >
Small but mighty

Marina Tabassum’s moveable house joins the Vitra Campus. >
Designer daycare

A new building by Kéré Architecture captures the playful spirit of children. >
Pieces of history

This Vietnamese museum is covered in clay tiles from old houses. >
Digital muse

Ballet production Fusion pushes the boundaries of art and technology. >
The hills are alive

This winery building forges a symbiotic relationship between architecture and nature. >
Something fishy

This floating pavilion, which resembles a fish eye, is dedicated to sustainable fishing. >
Necessity is the mother of invention

Tomasz Raczyński, Dominik Baraniecki and Piotr Walter win the 2022 James Dyson Award for SmartHEAL. >
Building sustainability

Coburg University Master’s students designed a tiny house made entirely of renewable materials that adopts cradle-to-cradle principles >
Woodkid

Driving a car powered by discarded wood, across forgotten parts of Germany, is performance art with a difference. >
A changing landscape

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

Craft-led Mapu proves that eco-friendly materials can replace plastics in electronics >
Exploring Woven Cosmos, Kenyan biophilia, music’s mavericks, & our newest multimedia-ists

New worlds >
Hella Jongerius - a former #DI Speaker - welcomes you into her magical world of weaving

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!

A shot of Expression >
#DI Speaker Winy Maas’s latest MVRDV project, KoolKiel, is a community-engaged, resident-designed building

For its new building project in Germany, MVRDV has asked the community what they want. >
#DI Global Graduate Ackeem Ngwenya envisions a future of fashion inclusivity with REFRAMD eyewear

REFRAMD’s vision is one of individualized solutions to eyewear. >
The Ideal City – A Crowd-Sourced Recipe for Building the Cities of the Future

SPACE10 and gestalten’s new book release asks experts how to create better cities. >
The new solar powered eBussy

The reconfigurable, modular light vehicle innovatively adapts to your needs, as often as you like. From a convertible to a station wagon, off-roader and more. >
Ignis uses household materials to create a safe, reliable source of energy

Antenna 2019 speaker Tobias Trubenbacher created Ignis to help provide clean and affordable energy to those without access to electricity. >
Generative design creates new ways to form a brand's identity

From wine, dance and even voice, designer Patrik Hübner chats us through how he uses creative algorithms to tell new stories. >
This women-led tech school has an innovative curriculum at its core

"I make it a priority to work with women and persons from under-represented communities in the tech world because times have changed..." >
This monument combines history, art and architecture

The architects worked in collaboration with photographer Edward Burtynsky, Holocaust scholar Doris Bergen and landscape architect Claude Comier. >

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