USA | Design Indaba

Bringing wind turbines into urban spaces

Joe Doucet’s Wind Turbine Wall is a kinetic sculpture that harnesses the power of the wind >
Our highlights from New York Design Week 2021

New York’s design scene reflects the city’s rich diversity >
ODA reinvents New York City

Beyond the Streets sees New York’s citizens and economy flourishing >
Our media partner ARTSTHREAD & GUCCI join forces to showcase the world’s design graduates

Following the success of the 2020 Global Design Graduate Show, ARTSTHREAD is ready for another round >
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 Speaker Thomas Heatherwick Creates Two Acres of Public Park above New York’s Hudson River

Little Island is an innovative space encouraging biodiversity, performance and public engagement >
#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. >
MBOISA-Nominee Igshaan Adams’ New Body of Work Maps the Histories of his Community

Bridging past, present and future, Igshaan Adams weaves narratives into his Veld Wen show. >
Former Design Indaba Emerging Creative Andile Dyalvane Mounts 2nd Ceramics Solo Show in New York

Ceramicist Andile Dyalvane’s iThongo communes with the ancestors via symbolic seating. >
Neri Oxman’s Silk Pavilion II Turns Metamorphosis into Art

Built by silkworms – a cross-species collaboration. >
Tin & Ed’s virtual playground with the Rockefeller Center in New York City will Transport and Inspire

Tin & Ed straddle the divide between art, nature and technology with their latest interactive installation. >
Diébédo Francis Kéré wins Thomas Jefferson Foundation Medal for Architecture

Design Indaba Speaker Diébédo Francis Kéré produces architectural work that inspires and unites. >
Victoria Ayo

Birth Reborn >
Using plastic to pave new roads

According To president of TechniSoil, the startup who has engineered this new type of movement - the use of plastic makes the pavement stronger. >
Burning the Museum

The annual Burning Man art festival is going virtual. >
How Marisa Hamamoto is reshaping the future of dance

She founded her Los Angeles-based dance company Infinite Flow Dance to integrate diversity so fully that it becomes yet another new normal. >
The rise of gaming activism

Fortnite decides to educate its users about systemic racism and gets them to battle prejudice >
Designers Leta and Wade on living and working together successfully

The couple talked about honesty, creativity, their project Complements and the universal strangeness of love. >
What is the new normal?

There’s no doubt the pandemic has wrought indelible shifts. Here, we map just a few of them… >
Jeanne Gang

Founding Principal and Partner, Studio Gang. >
Greening architecture | Design Indaba 2020 Speaker Kathryn Larsen thatches with seaweed

Bio-based designer and architectural technologist Kathryn Larsen is looking to the pass to create a greener future. >
Synthetic biology | Catalina Lotero’s plan to generate electricity with trees

Together with a multidisciplinary team, Catalina Lotero is tackling the global energy crisis with a simple, off-the-grid, plant-based solution. >
Measurable impact | Robert Wong explores humanity’s possible futures at Google

Chief creative officer of Google Creative Lab, Robert Wong spoke at Design Indaba 2020. >
Better cities| Jeanne Gang’s architectural practice builds sustainable futures

Her award-winning multidisciplinary practice, Studio Gang, is driven by an ethos of ‘actionable idealism’ and is concerned with how to make cities more livable, >

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