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Thunkable turns passive consumers into proactive app developers
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Interaction Design
The tech lets people with no coding experience create apps, democratising an otherwise elite space.
18 Jan 19
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6 of South Africa's best up-and-coming illustrators
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Graphic Design & Illustration
Part of the Emerging Creatives programme, these young designers will exhibit their work to the public at Design Indaba Festival 2019.
17 Jan 19
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How we used computers to figure out drugs that can beat drug-resistant TB
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Design Thinking
Ruben Cloete, a Lecturer in Bioinformatics at the University of the Western Cape in South Africa, talks smart healthcare.
16 Jan 19
00:09:20
The evolution of meditation tech with design graduate Freyja Sewell
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Design Thinking
Mind Mirror is part of a mindfulness series that hopes to diversify meditation tech by visualising brain activity.
16 Jan 19
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Art, dialogue and action to transform marginalised communities
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Design Thinking
The team at Colloqate wants to eliminate toxic government policies and Confederate infrastructure in the city of New Orleans.
9 Jan 19
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Nigerian fashion powerhouse Adebayo Oke-Lawal brings Orange Culture to Design Indaba 2019
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Fashion & Jewellery Design
Androgynous fashion isn’t new but it renews itself, and in doing so it continuously redefines culture, identity and gender politics.
9 Jan 19
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How theatre helps to explore a city's identity
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African Design
Researcher Alex Halligey explores the importance of making and knowing theatre in South Africa.
8 Jan 19
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How African cities can harness green technologies for growth and jobs
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Design Activism
The value of green technologies and systems is that they are largely decentralised or semi-decentralised.
4 Jan 19
00:09:38
An easy low-cost way to deliver medicine in rural areas
Next Generation
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Product Design
Industrial design student Gwen Gage wants to make medication delivery more accessible in under-developed regions.
3 Jan 19
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The world is changing and green material is at the forefront
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Design Thinking
We look a little deeper at the materials trend that led to tangible design solutions we found this year.
21 Dec 18
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Five killer Design Indaba Conference talks you should watch
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Product Design
From graphic designer Natasha Jen to architect Francis Kéré, here are our top 5 Design Indaba Conference talks.
20 Dec 18
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Creatives that shape cultural narratives
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Film & Animation
These Design Indaba 2019 speakers are using their wells of creativity to define culture in a myriad of magical ways.
19 Dec 18
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Should we engineer the climate? A social scientist and natural scientist discuss
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Design Activism
This is an article from Head to Head, a series in which academics from different disciplines chew over current debates.
19 Dec 18
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5 Innovations that broke the mould in 2018
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Design Thinking
Pioneers in their fields, these innovations were made to provide new solutions to old problems.
18 Dec 18
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Our top five trending stories of 2018
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Graphic Design & Illustration
As 2018 comes to an end, we're highlighting stories that grabbed our readers' attention this year.
17 Dec 18
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The Socio-Technical City combats the key challenges of our future cities
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Design Thinking
UNStudio designs a speculative cityscape for The Hague, aimed to address rapid urban growth and sustainability.
14 Dec 18
00:07:18
Oliber helps people with partial or total atrophy of the hands
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Product Design
Chilean design graduate Bárbara López designed a low-cost tool to give new hands to those in need.
14 Dec 18
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Design Indaba 2019: Where business and design meet
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Product Design
The next Design Indaba Conference is set to tackle various topics across business and design.
13 Dec 18
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The 5 most searched designers in 2018
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Design Thinking
Spanning across diverse ages, nationalities and disciplines, these were the most searched Design Indaba speakers in 2018
12 Dec 18
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From scrap to robot: This unlikely creation is one man's livelihood
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Craft
I’ve always been good with my hands, says South Africa's “Robot Man”.
12 Dec 18
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William Kentridge: the barbarity of the 'Great War' told through an African lens
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Design Thinking
Kentridge underlines the lunacy of the project in every part of the production – from ruined landscapes to caricatural imagery to ironic captions
10 Dec 18
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Could self-examination rape kits curb sexual violence in Kenya?
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Design Activism
A team of researchers are developing a tool much like a tampon that rape survivors can apply themselves after an attack.
7 Dec 18
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Smart Havens Africa uses human-centered business models to help the poor build homes
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Urban & Landscape Design
The company looks at developing green houses by promoting sustainable building and also tackling housing poverty.
6 Dec 18
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Design Indaba 2019 presents: Architecture driven by social responsibility
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Architecture & Interiors
From Mariam Kamara to Dong Ping-Wong, the 2019 Design Indaba Conference will host a list of renowned architects.
5 Dec 18
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