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Can bacteria colour our fashion?
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Fashion & Jewellery Design
Neri Oxman’s practice, OXMAN, explores a future in which bacteria grows fashion’s palette
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Alpine Refuge
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Product Design
Pancalpina is a light touch, context responsive emergency shelter
22 Jul 26
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Neri&Hu’s Terracotta Hong Kong icon
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Architecture & Interiors
Design Indaba Alumnus Neri&Hu breaks the monotony of Hong Kong’s glass and steel skyline with a woven façade.
22 Jul 26
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Otter neonatal care
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Design Activism
Design That Matters’ award winning conductive warmer to prevent hypothermia.
16 Jul 26
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AI Teller Machine
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Interaction Design
Studio ENESS has turned a decommissioned ATM machine into an interactive art installation that explores humanity’s relationship with AI.
16 Jul 26
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Routemaster playground
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Interaction Design
Interdisciplinary practice R.U.A Studio’s proposal to restore London’s retired New Routemaster buses into neighborhood playgrounds win the 2026 Davidson Prize
16 Jul 26
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Chance encounters
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Music & Sound Design
An immersive sound installation that embraces chance encounters
26 Jun 26
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KARRI
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Information Design
Pentagram’s child-friendly mobile messaging device
26 Jun 26
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Wind to Watts
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Architecture & Interiors
Designer Fabien Brun has created a modular, portable wind turbine
26 Jun 26
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Designing on Eggshells
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Product Design
Australian Designer turns eggshells into lighting
19 Jun 26
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A Serpentine
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Architecture & Interiors
LANZA Atelier's Serpentine Pavilion proves that less can be more
19 Jun 26
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Who is watching?
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Graphic Design & Illustration
British trip-hop pioneers Massive Attack and the London collective, United Visual Artists (UVA) collaborate for provocative onstage visuals.
19 Jun 26
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Sho Madjozi
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Asserting Culture into Artistry
12 Jun 26
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Plastic Tapestries
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Craft
Moffat Takadiwa transforms Zimbabwe’s plastic waste into powerful tapestries
12 Jun 26
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Conflict Ecology
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Design Thinking
The Geospatial research studio who is using radar technology to reveal the hidden impact of conflict.
11 Jun 26
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Led by Donkeys
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Graphic Design & Illustration
Satire, activism and creative resistance
11 Jun 26
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Joy through resistance
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Art & Photography
Yinka Ilori’s latest exhibition showcases his deeper roots of joy
11 Jun 26
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Sound and Light Soother
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Product Design
Motorola’s S1 Soother Brings Emotional Design to the Nursery
5 Jun 26
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A Bracelet That Translates Sign Language
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Product Design
Nura’s bracelet design wins the 2026 Rimowa Design Prize
5 Jun 26
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Ratchu Vaan Surajaras
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Architecture & Interiors
Designing Flood Resistant Cities
28 May 26
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Jakob Trollbäck
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Beauty and Logic of design
28 May 26
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Enni-Kukka Tuomala
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Radical Empathy
28 May 26
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Wave Energy
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Design Thinking
Spanish engineering company IDOM launches MARMOK-A-5, a floating wave energy converter.
28 May 26
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Kinya Tagawa
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Techno-progressivism
28 May 26
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Former Design Indaba Emerging Creatives showcased their collections at South African Fashion Week 2023.
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Heads up
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William Kentridge's The Head & The Load comes to the African continent for the first time.
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Cabin fever
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This wooden cabin can be opened up to let in nature.
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