Neo Maditla | Design Indaba

Merging architecture, entrepreneurship and digital fabrication in Cameroon

"Ours is the first digital manufacturing laboratory for architecture and design in Africa," African Fabbers School founder Paolo Cascone. >
On building a disappearing city in the Moroccan Sahara

"As designers, architects know how to build cities, but our field as a whole has not yet grasped how to make them disappear." >
Wanuri Kahiu on using film to talk about Africans as joyful and radiant

“I realised that there is more images and more stories of joy than there is of remorse,” Kahiu says of her search for African stories of joy. >
Cross Cultural Chairs examines the role of the chair in our modern society

"Analysing a chair you can understand the stature of a culture, what kind of materials they used and what kind of techniques they knew." >
Designer Ini Archibong on merging myth and reality to create The Secret Garden

The ECAL graduate spoke about overcoming a difficult time, his design process and the importance of fulfilling a higher purpose. >
Zipline is the small medical drone in Rwanda solving a worldwide logistics problem

"Health is where we found the connection between something we knew we could do and a problem that needed solving," Zipline's Keenan Wyrobek. >
Ilze Wolff on creating an activist and public culture around architecture

In this architectural practice collaboration with artists is just as important as working with other architects and engineers. >
Tumelo Lerata wins most promising award in international housing competition

The "r.i.s.e in the city" design competition is aimed at bridging the gap between entrepreneurship and architecture. >
Natsai Audrey Chieza on working with nature to help solve fashion's waste problem

She talks about projects that include dyeing clothes using bacteria, developing a residency programme and her love for Solange, Mafikizolo and Bjork. >
Wanuri Kahiu talks Rafiki and being a reluctant activist

"I am truly a creative. I start from a creative space and not from an activist space. I am like the most reluctant activist you will ever meet." >
GoGirlsICT is preparing the next generation of coders in South Sudan

The initiative was founded to help fight stereotypes among the youth, especially girls and women using ICT. >
Wearables that extend the function of the human body

Machina creates wearable tech in the garments that can make music and enhance your safety at the touch of a button. >
Danish designer Johannes Torpe on the power of design to create universes

“To create a universe around our products we actually have to take it out into the hands of the people who have to use it." >
Design is as crucial as politics and economic development, says architect Mariam Kamara

"For me, vernacular architecture is about understanding our traditional techniques and rebooting it so that we can make new things.” >
Drivelines is a building that does not conceal its true self

LOT-EK architect Ada Tolla says they wanted to design a building as honest as Joburg itself. >
How artists and architects are helping residents to claim their right to the city

Grigri Pixel invited a group a creatives from Africa and Spain to work together in Madrid to try and find out. >
Atolye on creating a space where community and strategic design meet

"There are many untapped markets as well as industries that need radical interventions" says architect Nesile Yalcin. >
Unscrambling Africa photo project reveals the Africa beyond the slums and safaris

Photographer Mutua Matheka launched his project to show the complex beauty of African cities. >
Indian artist of artefacts Sneha Suresh uses visual communication to transcend text

The visual artist and printmaker will be exhibiting at the first ever antenna exhibition. Here's what she had to say about her work. >
Filmmaker and photographer Senay Berhe's unbounded approach to creativity

“I see myself as a tool to create. So what you put in, is what you get out. If I am doing well or doing something I love I feel that will be what comes out." >
Lucia Bakulumpagi-Wamala on new ways to tackle electricity shortage in Uganda

The CEO of Bakulu Power takes us through their work in Bavuma, one of the only districts without electricity in the country. >
Nikki Gonnissen on building a united AGI in a divided world

“Good design is not only about good form, it’s also about a better world.” >
Architect Sénamé Koffi Agbodjinou on building African smart cities

"The problems we will face tomorrow in Africa are so big that we can’t count only on the politicians and experts to find solutions." >
Selva Hernandez on design and independent book publishing in Mexico

“Studying design allowed me to design books. After more than twenty years designing for cultural institutions, I decided to open my own label.” >

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