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  • Speaker 2012
    Chris Milk
    Artist / Director / Digital Designer
    Chris Milk is an artist known best for his music video work, including the award-winning “The Johnny Cash Project” and Arcade Fire’s “The Wilderness Downtown”.
    USA
  • Nobumichi Tosa Speaker 2009
    Nobumichi Tosa
    Artist / Performance Artist / Product Designer
    Nobumichi Tosa is a Japanese artist and founder of Maywa Denki, a design firm meets performance art collective.
    Japan
  • Teshia Treuhaft. Speaker 2014
    Teshia Treuhaft
    Artist / Communication Designer / Product Designer
    Teshia Treuhaft is an artist/designer with expertise in furniture and object design as well as communications design.
    Michigan, USA
  • Speaker 2012
    Aaron Koblin
    Creative Director / Artist / Digital Designer
    Aaron Koblin leads the Data Arts Team in Google’s Creative Lab and is famed for his work on "The Wilderness Downtown" and "The Johnny Cash Project".
    San Francisco, USA
  • Prof John Heskett Speaker 2004
    John Heskett
    Academic
    Prof John Heskett (1937 – 2014) became possibly the most influential person ever within design education through his teaching and books.
    Chicago, USA
  • Andrew Shoben Speaker 2012
    Andrew Shoben
    Interaction Designer / Exhibition Designer
    Andrew Shoben creates art in pubic spaces, bringing art and a form of creative expression to urban areas where is usually nothing of the sort.
    Paris, France
  • Hellicar & Lewis Speaker 2012
    Hellicar & Lewis
    Artist / Interaction Designer
    Pete Hellicar and Joel Lewis use art, design and technology to create experiences that take people into the moment.
    London, United Kingdom
  • Kiran Bir Sethi Speaker 2011
    Kiran Bir Sethi
    Education Activist
    Kiran Bir Sethi is the founder and director of The Riverside School in Ahmedabad, India, and founder of Design for Change, and aProCh.
    Ahmedabad, India
  • Red & Yellow Speaker 2001
    Brian Searle-Tripp
    Educator
    Brian Searle-Tripp became a founding member of the Red & Yellow School of Logic & Magic which won him Financial Mail's Advertising Achiever Award in 1996.
    South Africa
  • John Maeda Speaker 2013
    John Maeda
    Educator / Computer Scientist / Artist
    John Maeda is president of the Rhode Island School of Design.
    USA
  • Speaker 2013
    Daan Roosegaarde
    Artist / Interaction Designer
    Daan Roosegaarde is an artist and innovator, interested in exploring the dawn of a new nature evolving from technological innovations.
    Rotterdam, Netherlands
  • MIT SENSEable City Laboratory: Assaf Biderman and Caro Ratti Speaker 2012
    MIT SENSEable City Laboratory
    Architect / Engineer / Information Designer
    Carlo Ratti and Assaf Biderman teach at the MIT, where they are director and associate director (respectively) of the SENSEable City Laboratory.
    Massachusetts, USA
  • Michael Edwards Speaker 2010
    Michael Edwards
    Educator / Technology Designer
    His contributions to design have addressed issues including malnutrition, sustainable architecture, malaria, science education and the history of New York.
    New York, USA
  • Mathieu Rivier Speaker 2014
    Mathieu Rivier
    Interaction Designer
    Mathieu Rivier is a Swiss-born media and interaction designer/artist and part of the Pecha Kucha at Design Indaba Conference 2014.
    Lausanne, Switzerland
  • Speaker 2013
    Alexander Chen
    Interaction Designer
    Alexander Chen makes musical and interactive works, collaborating with the likes of Google and The Barbarian Group.
    New York, USA
  • Speaker 2011
    Joseph Saavedra
    Interaction Designer
    Joseph Saavedra is product designer interested in exploring the relationship between the human body and environment.
    New York, USA
  • Speaker 1999
    Carlos de Figueiredo
    Information Designer
    Carlos de Figueiredo was an e-business executive at IBM South Africa, and spoke at Design Indaba Conference in 1999.
    South Africa
  • Speaker 2010
    Troika
    Interaction Designer
    Troika is a multi-disciplinary art and design practice founded in 2003 by Conny Freyer, Eva Rucki and Sebastien Noel.
    London, United Kingdom
  • Yugo Nakamura Speaker 2001
    Yugo Nakamura
    Web Designer
    Yugo Nakamura is considered one of Japan's leading web designers having studied engineering, architecture and landscape design.
    Japan
  • Speaker 2010
    Revital Cohen
    Interaction Designer
    As a designer and researcher she develops critical objects and provocative scenarios exploring the juxtaposition of the natural with the artificial.
    London, United Kingdom
  • Tom Hobbs Speaker 1999
    Tom Hobbs
    Interaction Designer
    Tom Hobbs is Interaction Design Manager at Teague.
    United Kingdom
  • Josh On Speaker 2002
    Josh On
    Interaction Designer
    On has helped to create a number of projects at Futurefarmers, including communiculture.org and theyrule.orgo.org
    San Francisco, USA
  • Ben Fry Speaker 2011
    Ben Fry
    Information Designer
    Ben Fry takes complex data and visualises it in an aesthetically pleasing and easily understandable way.
    Boston, USA
  • Speaker 2008
    Jason Bruges
    Architect / Interaction Designer
    Trained as an architect at Oxford Brookes, Bruges brings environmental awareness and technical skill to his creative projects.
    London, United Kingdom
  • Speaker 2012
    Chris Milk
    Artist / Director / Digital Designer
    Chris Milk is an artist known best for his music video work, including the award-winning “The Johnny Cash Project” and Arcade Fire’s “The Wilderness Downtown”.
    USA
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