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The hills are alive
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Urban & Landscape Design
This winery building forges a symbiotic relationship between architecture and nature.
29 May 23
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Material boy
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Craft
This contemporary artist loves challenging notions of understanding and breaking the rules.
29 May 23
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Keep it cool
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Urban & Landscape Design
This sustainable cooler uses ancient geothermal techniques to chill drinks without electricity.
22 May 23
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Woven stories
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Craft
The artistic practice of this 2023 Design Indaba Emerging Creative examines memory, identity and inheritance.
22 May 23
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Pretty in pink
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Craft
A 7,6-metre-tall fluorescent tree decorates New York’s High Line.
22 May 23
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Dreams come true
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Architecture & Interiors
Adjaye Associates transformed a former ice warehouse in Harlem into a public school.
22 May 23
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Finding hope
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Craft
Design Indaba Emerging Creative for 2023 Oteng Hope Kopiso applies no limits to her craft.
12 May 23
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House of memories
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Design Activism
A memorial dedicated to earthquake victims traces the natural paths on a hill.
12 May 23
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To-do list
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Design Thinking
Ayse Birsel’s latest book guides readers in designing their own long, happy lives.
12 May 23
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Bathroom break
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African Design
Tom Dixon collaborates with Cosentino on a bold new vision for bathrooms.
12 May 23
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Around the world
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Design Thinking
Thirteen design startups were chosen for their innovative strategies for building a more circular society.
8 May 23
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Rock of ages
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Architecture & Interiors
This combined research and exhibition space invites exploration and discovery.
8 May 23
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Re-threading
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Art & Photography
Fashion designer Khumo Mohloli Morojele finds inspiration in the traces of memory in thrifted clothes.
8 May 23
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The New Medium
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Art & Photography
The first fine-art physical NFT gallery in South Africa opens in Johannesburg.
8 May 23
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Main character
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Graphic Design & Illustration
This Design Indaba Emerging Creative captures a spark of hope in his artworks.
2 May 23
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Tomorrow's designs today
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Design Thinking
Four up-and-coming designers have made their ambitious designs a reality.
2 May 23
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Inside out
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Architecture & Interiors
Artist and photographer Roger Ballen’s non-profit arts centre has opened in Johannesburg.
2 May 23
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For stories
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Architecture & Interiors
This spiral building serves as a public exhibition and reading area.
2 May 23
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Common lens
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Art & Photography
Analogue photographer Sandra Leigh Nagel’s work has a clear style, cutting-edge aesthetic and unequivocal direction.
25 Apr 23
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Limited edition
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Fashion & Jewellery Design
Former Design Indaba Emerging Creatives showcased their collections at South African Fashion Week 2023.
24 Apr 23
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Heads up
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Film & Animation
William Kentridge's The Head & The Load comes to the African continent for the first time.
24 Apr 23
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Cabin fever
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Architecture & Interiors
This wooden cabin can be opened up to let in nature.
24 Apr 23
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The plot thickens
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Design Thinking
Studio Other Spaces has been developing this massive park in Ethiopia since 2013.
17 Apr 23
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Light work
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Craft
This wind-up flashlight kit was designed in collaboration with its intended users.
17 Apr 23
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The new frontiers in health
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This week we look at how design concepts, interventions and enhancements can help “cure” medical issues.
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The children and education design of the future
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23 Nov 20
Here, we explore new formats for childhood learning that foster design thinking and creativity…
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Algae Window by Olafur Eliasson
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19 Nov 20
Olafur Eliasson has created an Algae Window consisting of glass spheres arranged according to the structure of diatoms.
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Yinka Ilori explores how seating systems shape human interactions
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19 Nov 20
Yinka Ilori explores how seating systems shape human interactions with his A Trifle of Colour project.
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