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Measurable impact | Robert Wong explores humanity’s possible futures at Google

Design News > Creative Economy

Co-founder of Google Creative Lab, Robert Wong is set to speak at Design Indaba 2020.

4 Feb 20
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The Most Beautiful Object in South Africa

Design News > Urban & Landscape Design

Join the creative debate and help us choose this year’s winner.

3 Feb 20
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Announcing the Emerging Creatives for 2020

Design Frontiers > Urban & Landscape Design

As part of the Emerging Creatives programme, these young designers will exhibit their work at Design Indaba 2020.

18 Dec 19
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Exploring the connection between aromas and our memory

Design News > Information Design

“It’s really important for us to make emotion that could differentiate smell in how something makes you feel when you smell it.”

6 Dec 19
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Antya Waegemann redesigns the rape kit

Next Generation > Product Design

The 'When No One Believes You' rape kit includes six different design interventions for use by victims, nurses and the police.

2 Dec 19
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Ignis uses household materials to create a safe, reliable source of energy

Next Generation > Product Design

Antenna 2019 speaker Tobias Trubenbacher created Ignis to help provide clean and affordable energy to those without access to electricity.

2 Dec 19
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Camila Chiriboga on fashion that brings dignity to differently-abled people

Next Generation > Product Design

The antenna 2019 speaker created Veº, an inclusive system of fashion for the blind and visually impaired.

2 Dec 19
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Interdisciplinary architectural design practice Neri&Hu use research as a design tool

Design News > Urban & Landscape Design

The Shanghai-based Lyndon Neri and Rossana Hu will be speaking at Design Indaba 2020.

2 Dec 19
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Using art activism to fight gender-based violence

Design News > Graphic Design & Illustration

Artists and creatives came together for the 'Rise' exhibition to raise awareness about gender-based violence in South Africa.

2 Dec 19
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Natsai Audrey Chieza is pioneering new models for design and technology that are driven by ecological thinking

Design Frontiers > Fashion & Jewellery Design

The biodesigner will be speaking at Design Indaba 2020.

2 Dec 19
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Sunny Dolat is opening up the space for a more nuanced discussion on African fashion

Design Frontiers > Creative Economy

The creative director and cultural producer will be speaking at Design Indaba 2020.

29 Nov 19
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Sum Waste turns waste into functional products like pens

Next Generation > Industrial Design

Pratt University graduate Garret Benisch says he wanted to show what happens when one sees waste as an asset rather than a problem.

29 Nov 19
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The Coral Farm allows you to grow algae at home

Design News > Design Thinking

Hyun Seok An's project was inspired by a UN World Food Conference that named algae ‘the most ideal food for mankind.’

29 Nov 19
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P Bank is a public toilet facility that offers a solution to the phosphorus scarcity

Design News > Design Activism

P Bank allows visitors to make a donation of Phosphorus, which is currently endangered due to high consumption levels.

28 Nov 19
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6 clever design solutions for pressing healthcare issues

Take Five > Product Design

We highlight some of the design solutions aimed at healthcare sector.

28 Nov 19
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The Sumo Diaper is an eco-friendly and fully biodegradable diaper

Next Generation > Product Design

The product was created by Luisa Kahlfeldt using a cellulose fiber that is made from eucalyptus wood pulp and brown algae extracts.

28 Nov 19
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Re:flex is a material that can be reprogrammed using heat

Design News > Product Design

Dutch product designer Karlijn Sibbel says she and her team wanted to create a material that adapts to changes the way nature does.

28 Nov 19
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Zana Masombuka on Ndebele Superhero as a process of reimagination

Next Generation > Creative Economy

“Africans need to interpret their history themselves and seek to reinvent Africa according to their own terms.”

26 Nov 19
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Jack Newbury has designed an inclusive sexual education kit

Design News > Product Design

The design student says this new kit and curriculum, a first for the UK, is inclusive of the LGBTQ+ community and other types of sexual practices.

25 Nov 19
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Kathryn Larsen on why seaweed is the building material of the future

Next Generation > Urban & Landscape Design

Larsen looked to an ancient method from the Middle Ages used to thatch roofs out of seaweed and brought it back to the present.

21 Nov 19
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Kinya Tagawa on threading humanity into the tech world

Design News > Product Design

The Japanese designer and engineer will be speaking at Design Indaba 2020.

20 Nov 19
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Ghanaian artist Ibrahim Mahama will be speaking at Design Indaba 2020

Design Frontiers > Design Thinking

The artist and author is famed for draping buildings in materials, like jute sacks, as a comment on our complicated colonial histories.

20 Nov 19
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Self-taught Mexican artist on creating artwork that speaks to the masses

Design News > Graphic Design & Illustration

“I am totally self-taught, which gives me full freedom of experimentation."

19 Nov 19
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Kenyan fashion designer Anyango Mpinga on how she uses fashion to inspire change

Design Frontiers > Fashion & Jewellery Design

Mpinga tells us how soap operas, dragonflies and sound waves all came together to create the Anyango Mpinga label.

19 Nov 19

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