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An architecture icon
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Architecture & Interiors
Pakistan’s first female architect has shown us how architecture can change lives for the better.
24 Jul 23
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Metamorphosis
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Craft
‘I always make clothes that I would want to wear … forever,’ says 2023 Design Indaba Emerging Creative Shamyra Moodley.
24 Jul 23
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Running wild
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Product Design
These running shoes help spread plants and seeds in the city.
24 Jul 23
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Designing for good
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Information Design
Unique collaboration including 600 designers creates solutions for clean water and sanitation.
24 Jul 23
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Twisted towers
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Architecture & Interiors
A pair of unique towers offers incredible views of the skyline of Manhattan.
17 Jul 23
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Birds of a feather
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Design Thinking
Simulated bird calls overlap with the real thing in Alexandra Daisy Ginsberg’s latest installation.
17 Jul 23
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Identity expression
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Fashion & Jewellery Design
2023 Design Indaba Emerging Creative Riley Axon uses their creative expression to digest the way the world perceives them.
17 Jul 23
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In the round
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Design Thinking
Las Vegas is home to the world’s largest sphere.
17 Jul 23
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Self-titled
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Design Thinking
The latest exhibition by renowned South African visual activist Zanele Muholi is autobiographical.
10 Jul 23
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Join the dots
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Urban & Landscape Design
Yayoi Kusama’s immersive exhibition features inflatable artworks on a grand scale.
10 Jul 23
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Creative outlet
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Craft
This 2023 Design Indaba Emerging Creative offers artists the opportunity to use Persian carpets as a canvas.
10 Jul 23
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Letter days
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Craft
When an alphabet saves a culture.
10 Jul 23
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Hot off the press
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Graphic Design & Illustration
Otsile Moumakoe’s artworks incorporate ‘fashion, music, movies and a little bit of history’.
4 Jul 23
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Concrete jungle
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Architecture & Interiors
David Adjaye’s first skyscraper is completed in New York.
4 Jul 23
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Space lab
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Product Design
Varda Space Industries has launched the world’s first space factory.
4 Jul 23
Hot off the press
4 Jul 23
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Child’s play
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Design Thinking
This revamped museum was designed with and for children.
4 Jul 23
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Fresh air
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Architecture & Interiors
This public tower in New Delhi purifies polluted air.
27 Jun 23
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Tectonic forces
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Architecture & Interiors
This massive museum emulates the forms created by shifting tectonic plates.
27 Jun 23
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Clothes minded
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Fashion & Jewellery Design
2023 Design Indaba Emerging Creative Nokukhanya Justine Zungu is the founder of a brand that specialises in African contemporary women’s wear.
27 Jun 23
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Decolonising architecture
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Art & Photography
The Applied Arts pavilion at the Venice Architecture Biennale explores the colonial roots and evolution of Tropical Modernist architecture.
27 Jun 23
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Meet and greet
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Urban & Landscape Design
Lina Ghotmeh’s 2023 Serpentine Pavilion has arrived in Kensington Gardens.
19 Jun 23
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20/23 vision
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Product Design
Apple introduces a new era of spatial computing with its ‘mixed reality’ headset.
19 Jun 23
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Perfect pair
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Craft
This 2023 Design Indaba Emerging Creatives duo share a love of creativity, craft and collaboration.
19 Jun 23
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The body eclectic
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Queerness and environmentalism are central to the work of Luke Rudman
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