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No Waste Challenge winners announced!

Sixteen global waste-busters awarded top honours by What Design Can Do. >
Denouncing plastic, hair as art, African spirituality & the Bouroullec Brothers’s latest…

Design for people, by people. >
Spoon Archaeology examines plastic cutlery, hopefully, as a relic of the past

Kai Linke and Peter Eckart put 20 years of plastic cutlery on museum display. >
The high-speed Hyperloop by Zaha Hadid Architects will revolutionise land-based travel

Hyperloop and Zaha Hadid Architects on track to transport us into the future. >
South African Firm Counterspace’s Much-Anticipated Serpentine Pavilion Finally Opens to the Public

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…

Innovation, engagement, and leadership are our watchwords this week. >
#DI Global Graduate Ini Archibong Launches Travelling Pavilion at London Design Biennale, Directed by #DI Speaker Es Devlin

Pavilion of the African Diaspora is a travelling installation in three phases. >
#DI Speaker Hanif Kara’s Latest London Project, The Tide

The Tide, a feat of engineering, architecture, and art, transforms an industrial area. >
With 19 Chairs, Art and Charity Collide in a Celebration of Seating by a Range of #DI Speakers

19 Chairs challenges design stars to create one-of-a-kind custom chairs for COVID-19 charity auction. >
Yinka Ilori’s New 20-Piece Homeware Collection Merges African and English Customs

Design Indaba Speaker Yinka Ilori’s bright and colourful new homeware incorporates his signature motifs. >
Diébédo Francis Kéré wins Thomas Jefferson Foundation Medal for Architecture

Design Indaba Speaker Diébédo Francis Kéré produces architectural work that inspires and unites. >
Shaakira Jassat pilots her Acquatecture

Shaakira Jassat of Studio Sway has developed her Acquatecture from concept to reality. >
Allez! Allez! Magazine! with Nelly Ben Hayoun

Launched in March 2021, the magazine compiles projects, research, conversations and other material produced throughout the programme. >
Tom Dixon wins 2021 Wallpaper* Design Award

From lighting to exploring weaving and digital printing, Tom Dixon (OBE) is a prolific designer. >
Mariam Kamara in the Global Spotlight

Mariam Kamara of Atelier Masōmī wins big at The Lexus Design Awards 2021. >
Thomas Chapman does Bush Yoga

Thomas Chapman of Johannesburg-based architecture firm Local Studio has created a yoga room. >
Satyendra Pakhalé launches Modular Vaccines Container

Satyendra Pakhalé has created a Modular Vaccines Container (MVC) that addresses the requirements of each stage of the cold chain. >
Selly Rabe Kane steps up to the No Waste Challenge

The No Waste Challenge is spearheaded by What Design Can Do. >
The International Large Urban Parks Awards

The awards are given in three Categories. >
Newly designed Portuguese Eco Park

The project is led by architect José António Lopes. >
Battery Park at the V&A Waterfront

The newly developed park includes basketball and skateboarding sites. >
Copenhagen’s newest designed park

It won the 2020 Arne of the Year – Copenhagen’s most respected prize for architecture. >
New Urban Sports Park

"This course has been constructed in the Ariake district, which will house the IBC and the MP." >
New football stadium

The city of Rahovec in Kosovo will soon be relocating a football stadium occupying the centre of the city. >

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