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The Sumo Diaper is an eco-friendly and fully biodegradable diaper
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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
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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
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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
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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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Kinya Tagawa on threading humanity into the tech world
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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
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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
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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
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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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Nassia Inglessis’ unique approach to interactive installations
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Interaction Design
The designer is known for her innovative approach in transforming design as we know it.
15 Nov 19
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SPACE10 set to launch research and design lab in Delhi
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Urban & Landscape Design
“We want to be where the future is...Innovation doesn’t happen in isolation, so we want to anchor our research and design process closer to the people."
14 Nov 19
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Could VR create space for people of colour in the film industry?
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Information Design
Emerging technology may be the answer to the ongoing question of representation.
12 Nov 19
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Making the world a little more colourful with Olimpia Zagnoli
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Graphic Design & Illustration
The Italian illustrator lives by the philosophy being kind and creating beautiful things.
12 Nov 19
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Here is a look at some innovative design coming out of Iceland
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Product Design
The Iceland Design Award 2019 nominees include a wearable MIDI controller in the shape of a ring that sits on your index finger.
12 Nov 19
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Cape Town school built with its pupils unique needs in mind
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Urban & Landscape Design
Cheré Botha School provides pupils with a learning environment that limits excess stimuli and distraction.
11 Nov 19
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West Africa through the lens of photographer Sierra Nallo
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Art & Photography
“I want people to really see the human connection and that's the most important aspect of my photography.”
7 Nov 19
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5 surprisingly sustainable fashion fabrics
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Fashion & Jewellery Design
It's not just organic cotton and hemp on the sustainable fabrics line up. Here are five of the most curious eco-friendly textiles.
6 Nov 19
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An outsider's critique of the American Dream
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Art & Photography
Zimbabwean-born photographer Barry Salzman talks to us about his latest project as well as his award-winning series on the Rwandan genocide.
6 Nov 19
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Material World is a film that gives form to the sustainable fashion debate
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Film & Animation
This short invites you to question the stories and ethics behind your clothing.
5 Nov 19
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Terms last updated on 4 November 2019
5 Nov 19
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Southapedia aims to transform Durban with street art
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Graphic Design & Illustration
We catch up with former Design Indaba Emerging Creative, Wesley van Eeden, following the launch of his new festival called Southapedia Mural Festival.
4 Nov 19
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STEAM not STEM: Why scientists need arts training
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Design Thinking
Associate Professor Richard Lachman explains the importance of including the arts into STEM
3 Nov 19
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Face This is fostering collaboration between kids and the world's street artists
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Graphic Design & Illustration
This initiative turns Indonesian kids' drawings into school funding through international collaboration.
1 Nov 19
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The magic of Indian urbanism
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Urban & Landscape Design
Dennis Pieprz recounts the beauty of the Indian cities he's visited in a vibrant series of photos.
1 Nov 19
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This new process could create emission-free cement
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Industrial Design
This electrochemical process developed by MIT researchers could eliminate the current fossil-fuel-dependent system
31 Oct 19
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