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Your free ticket to Mind-Full mini film festival
Find out what these illustrious designers are up to and how they’re making the world better with their design ingenuity.
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Design Indaba 2021
Design Indaba’s Do Tank plans 2021 action, while its Think Tank takes a post-jubilee sabbatical
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A new fully sustainable human-centric pedestrian bridge to be built across a river in Cape Town
A project spearheaded and commissioned by Design Indaba in collaboration with Paul Cocksedge.
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South African architecture student looks at how to reimagine dangerous alleyways in a Johannesburg suburb as pedestrian streets
Joshil Naran's Honours project is named “in-between, back-to-back & front-to-front”.
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How to treat the HIV epidemic: RCA graduate Ricky Stoch addresses treatment adherence
Royal College of Art graduate Ricky Stoch created a system called FebriSol that aims to solve the problem of treatment adherence.
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#antenna2020 Interview: Ricky stoch
"I don't distinguish between my design ethics and personal ethics, I just try my best to act with integrity."
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Ricky Stoch
Designer
Ricky Stoch is a South African human-centred designer and consultant.
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From smart car to living lounge
Renault has unveiled a personal vehicle that transforms from car to couch, becoming part of the lounge.
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How to make your travel booking experience easier
SnapTravel is an App-less way to book your next vay-cay and it all happens via Facebook Messenger or WhatsApp.
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Recycling the Serpentine Pavilion
Johannesburg-based collaborative architectural studio and all women team, Counterspace will be designing the iconic Serpentine Pavilion for 2020/2021.
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Current Affairs
Currents for Currents, an award winning concept for a floating community
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Portable Potable
Quench Sea, a portable desalination device
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Plastic Pandemic
How will the Covid-19 Health Pandemic affect the world's oceans?
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Sacha Buliard’s responsive mat lets users connect with their bodies
Global graduate, Sacha Buliard spoke at the 2020 Design Indaba Conference.
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Rethinking rape kits with Antya Waegemann
The global graduate designs solutions for sexual assault survivors and will speaking at #DI2020.
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Building sustainably | Design Indaba 2020 speaker Vukheta Mukhari’s bio-bricks help save the planet
Vukheta Mukhari and his team members created the world’s first bio-brick made from human urine.
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Meet the Emerging Creatives who exhibited at Design Indaba 2020
The Emerging Creatives programme is a product of creative inclusion created by Design Indaba and supported by the Department of Arts and Culture.
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Nando’s Clout Fires Up The Ravi Naidoo Residency for Emerging Creatives, declaring Mmamotsatsi Masike its First-ever Recipient
The announcement of the new Ravi Naidoo Residency for Emerging Creatives was made at the recent Design Indaba Conference.
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The drum machine by Nicolás Kisic Aguirre
The Peruvian designer’s open-source projects are a combination of sound, architecture and the mind.
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Artist Olafur Eliasson tackles freedom of press with new artwork
Olafur Eliasson has teamed up with Kumi Naidoo to create artwork that highlights the collaboration between press freedom and its reader.
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Expressing solidarity through design
In the wake of #blackouttuesday we look to the everyday work needed to right the social wrongs.
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Africa Day 2020
We look to a wealth of African thinkers who are improving the world through creativity.
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Hope heroes from across the globe
DON'T WORRY (TOO MUCH), BE HAPPY.
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Sho Madjozi
Artist
Award-wining artist, writer and performer.
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