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Sweden’s Onmateria Imagines a Future for the Hotel Industry hat’s Lighter on the Planet
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Green Box – an innovative biodegradable system of hotel amenities.
26 Apr 21
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The Ideal City – A Crowd-Sourced Recipe for Building the Cities of the Future
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Urban & Landscape Design
SPACE10 and gestalten’s new book release asks experts how to create better cities.
26 Apr 21
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Neri Oxman’s Silk Pavilion II Turns Metamorphosis into Art
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Built by silkworms – a cross-species collaboration.
26 Apr 21
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The Pen is Mighty
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Graphic Design & Illustration
Past meets present in a powerful new era of illustration.
23 Apr 21
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Tin & Ed’s virtual playground with the Rockefeller Center in New York City will Transport and Inspire
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Interaction Design
Tin & Ed straddle the divide between art, nature and technology with their latest interactive installation.
21 Apr 21
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Diébédo Francis Kéré wins Thomas Jefferson Foundation Medal for Architecture
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Architecture & Interiors
Design Indaba Speaker Diébédo Francis Kéré produces architectural work that inspires and unites.
21 Apr 21
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Creative Campus: DI Speaker Annabelle Selldorf’s Role in the New LUMA Arles
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Architecture & Interiors
Selldorf Architects transforms railway structures into exhibition and performance spaces.
20 Apr 21
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Skinny LaMinx Chats to us about a New Collaboration Inspired by the Sea Point Promenade
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Former Design Indaba Emerging Creative Heather Moore has based her new Skinny LaMinx range on one of Cape Town’s most celebrated seaboard spaces.
20 Apr 21
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Vincent Callebaut’s Pollinator Park Brings People into Harmony with Nature’s Pollinators
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This futuristic VR experience by the world-renowned ‘archiobiotect’ has a special focus on pollinators.
20 Apr 21
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A Future Vision
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Graphic Design & Illustration
These next-gen artists are expanding our horizons.
16 Apr 21
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Arch for Arch
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Design Activism
Piyushi Kotecha, CEO of the Desmond & Leah Tutu Legacy Foundation talks to Design Indaba founder, Ravi Naidoo on how and why the Arch for Arch was created.
16 Apr 21
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Artists Wage War on Waste
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Art & Photography
Artists Thirza Schaap and Dionnys Matos create beauty from waste.
15 Apr 21
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Run(a)way success: Lukhanyo Mdingi
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Fashion & Jewellery Design
Former Design Indaba Emerging Creative Lukhanyo Mdingi is competing on the international luxury stage.
15 Apr 21
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A Brighter Future, Together
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Design Activism
Morag Myerscough’s recent interventions with the Ilukuluku Art Collective have brought colour and joy to the communities they touch.
15 Apr 21
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Table Talk with Thabisa Mjo
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Craft
Thabisa Mjo of Mash T. Design Studio launches new ceramics collection.
15 Apr 21
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Capture the Moment
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Art & Photography
Meet the photographers behind the lens of the Design Indaba Emerging Creatives Class of 2021.
8 Apr 21
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Fashion’s Fresh Faces
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Fashion & Jewellery Design
Meet the fashionistas of the 2021 Design Indaba Emerging Creatives
31 Mar 21
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Meet the design stars of tomorrow
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Urban & Landscape Design
Design Indaba announces the Emerging Creatives Class of 2021.
25 Mar 21
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Architecture’s New Wonder Material
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Urban & Landscape Design
This new sustainable material has been engineered with a better future in mind.
25 Mar 21
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Meet the new curators of the Design Indaba Emerging Creatives Class of 2021
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Product Design
Thabiso Mjo and Cole Ndelu to pick this years crop of up-and-coming designers
21 Mar 21
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Shaakira Jassat pilots her Acquatecture
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Product Design
Shaakira Jassat of Studio Sway has developed her Acquatecture from concept to reality.
12 Mar 21
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Allez! Allez! Magazine! with Nelly Ben Hayoun
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Interaction Design
Launched in March 2021, the magazine compiles projects, research, conversations and other material produced throughout the programme.
12 Mar 21
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Tom Dixon wins 2021 Wallpaper* Design Award
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Architecture & Interiors
From lighting to exploring weaving and digital printing, Tom Dixon (OBE) is a prolific designer.
11 Mar 21
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Mariam Kamara in the Global Spotlight
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Architecture & Interiors
Mariam Kamara of Atelier Masōmī wins big at The Lexus Design Awards 2021.
11 Mar 21
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