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Four designers are looking to redesign the gynaecology experience
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Design Thinking
Yona is trying to redesign the uncomfortable vaginal speculum using human-centred experience design.
25 Mar 19
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On being a young creative dealing with mental health
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Graphic Design & Illustration
We spoke to past Design Indaba Emerging Creatives to unpack the way creativity and mental health co-exist in their lives.
25 Mar 19
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Zipline is the small medical drone in Rwanda solving a worldwide logistics problem
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Product Design
"Health is where we found the connection between something we knew we could do and a problem that needed solving," Zipline's Keenan Wyrobek.
25 Mar 19
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The bizarre and confounding influence of Dubai on Africa’s emerging cities
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Architecture & Interiors
Design researcher and built environment designer Mathias Agbo, Jr speaks to Nigerian, UAE-based architect Safiya Yahaya on this phenomenon
22 Mar 19
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SPACE10 creates SolarVille prototype for a cleaner future
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Urban & Landscape Design
"We can actively choose to take major steps to reduce global warming and stabilise our climate.”
22 Mar 19
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Lemn Sissay on the importance of daily acts of creativity
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Design Thinking
Sissay talks to us about taking creative risks and where he finds inspiration to write a new poem every morning.
20 Mar 19
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Mariam Kamara unveils a new collaboration with Design Indaba in Niger
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Urban & Landscape Design
The Artisan Valley is a whimsical promenade with spaces for local artisans to show off their traditional fabrication processes.
20 Mar 19
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Meet the landscape architect determined to save Bangkok from drowning
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Urban & Landscape Design
“The health of the city is directly related to the health of the people. Right now the city is sick so we are all sick,” Kotchakorn Voraakhom.
20 Mar 19
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Cairo architect Nada Elhadedy on architecture driven by circumstance
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Architecture & Interiors
“So instead of using the building as a barrier… we used it to promote openings and interaction.”
20 Mar 19
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Ilze Wolff on creating an activist and public culture around architecture
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Architecture & Interiors
In this architectural practice collaboration with artists is just as important as working with other architects and engineers.
20 Mar 19
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Cyborg artists Neil Harbisson and Moon Ribas on physically merging oneself with technology
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Music & Sound Design
“I think the more we design ourselves the less we’ll have to design the planet and the less we’ll have to change it.”
19 Mar 19
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Tumelo Lerata wins most promising award in international housing competition
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Industrial Design
The "r.i.s.e in the city" design competition is aimed at bridging the gap between entrepreneurship and architecture.
19 Mar 19
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Could embracing the informality of South Africa’s chaotic taxi industry do more good than bad?
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Urban & Landscape Design
Researcher and urban planner Zonke Mkhomazi discusses the history and future of transport in South Africa.
18 Mar 19
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Malawian artist Samson Kambalu on the non-Western ways of crafting a narrative
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Film & Animation
The multimedia artist says there’s no such thing as a passive audience in Africa.
15 Mar 19
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8 emerging fashion designers on their interpretation of South African fashion
Next Generation
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Fashion & Jewellery Design
These designers were part of this year's Design Indaba Emerging Creatives Programme.
15 Mar 19
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Jalila Essaïdi’s project turns cow dung into textiles
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Fashion & Jewellery Design
Designer and entrepreneur Jalila Essaïdi says we have an untapped natural resource in manure.
14 Mar 19
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4 graphic designers experimenting with colour and tackling taboos
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Graphic Design & Illustration
These are the graphic designer who were a part of the Design Indaba Emerging Creatives exhibition, a smorgasbord of young South African talent.
14 Mar 19
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7 Interior designers that should be on your radar
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Product Design
As part of the Emerging Creatives programme, these young designers exhibited their work at the Design Indaba Festival 2019.
13 Mar 19
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Wacy Zacarias on taking back the African textile market
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Fashion & Jewellery Design
The Mozambican entrepreneur started Karingana Wa Karingana Textiles to create authentic African prints.
13 Mar 19
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The coveted items that make up the IKEA Överallt collection
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Product Design
“This is how design makes the world smaller and brings people from different cultures closer together,” Bibi Seck.
13 Mar 19
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Ify Ojo tells the stories we never hear through textile design
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Graphic Design & Illustration
The Nigerian, Canada-based designer pays tribute to the women of Africa with Stèlà Textile.
12 Mar 19
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Adebayo Oke-Lawal on using fashion as a tool for social change
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Fashion & Jewellery Design
"I feel like fashion will be such a huge part of the way Africa shapes its future and the way Africa progresses as a people."
12 Mar 19
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Dezeen Awards 2019 are encouraging African designers to enter
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Creative Economy
Dezeen Awards is the benchmark for international design excellence and the ultimate accolade for architects and designers everywhere.
11 Mar 19
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Could a synthetic brain make manufacturing automation accessible for all?
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Product Design
Imagine a future in which anyone with a dream can easily turn it into a physical product.
6 Mar 19
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