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  • Hanif Kara Speaker
    Hanif Kara
    Engineer
    Hanif Kara is a structural engineer, Design Director of AKT II as well as Professor in Practice at Harvard GSD.
    London, United Kingdom
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    Lyndon Neri and Rossana Hu
    Interior Designer / architects
    Founding Partners of Neri&Hu and Design Republic.
    Shanghai, China
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    Studio DRIFT
    Design Studio
    Dutch artists Lonneke Gordijn and Ralph Nauta founded studio DRIFT in 2007.
    Netherlands
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    Lucas De Man
    Director
    Artistic director of company: New Heroes
    Belgium
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    Leta & Wade
    Graphic Designer / Product Designer
    They combine traditional graphic design elements with photography, art, and styling to create utterly unique pieces.
    USA
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    Wanuri Kahiu
    Author / Filmmaker
    Film director, producer, and author.
    Nairobi, Kenya
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    John Pawson
    Architect / Interior Designer
    Architect and Interior designer
    United Kingdom
  • Mariam Kamara Speaker
    Mariam Kamara
    Architect
    Her work is guided by the belief that architects have an important role to play in spaces that have the power to elevate, dignify, and provide a better life.
    Niger
  • Rodrigo Garcia Gonzalez Speaker
    Rodrigo Garcia Gonzalez
    Architect / Designer / Inventor
    Inventor, designer, architect and engineer.
    London, United Kingdom
  • Yuri Suzuki Speaker
    Yuri Suzuki
    Sound designer
    Sound artist, designer and electronic musician.
    United Kingdom
  • Image of Hannah Barry by Nick Seaton Speaker
    Hannah Barry
    Curator / Director
    Curator and founder of Bold Tendencies and Hannah Barry Gallery.
    London, United Kingdom
  • William Mapham Speaker 2018
    William Mapham
    Healthcare Innovator
    The ophthalmologist is the founder of Vula, a healthcare app.
    South Africa
  • Dear Ribane Speaker 2017
    Dear Ribane
    Performance Artist
    "We are because each other." Introducing the Dear Ribane production company.
    Johannesburg, South Africa
  • Brian Collins Speaker 2017
    Brian Collins
    Advertising Executive
    Creative juggernaut Brian Collins, co-founder and CCO of Collins agency in New York, works towards revitalising massive brands.
    New York, USA
  • Speaker 2017
    Craig Dykers
    Architect
    Co-founder of Snøhetta, architect Craig Dykers is interested in design as a promoter of social and physical well-being.
    New York, USA
  • Snask: Fred and Erik Speaker 2016
    Snask
    Creative Agency
    Snask are a creative agency that makes "kickass" branding, design and film.
    Stockholm, Sweden
  • Dokter and Misses Speaker 2017
    Dokter and Misses
    Product Designer
    Husband and wife team Dokter and Misses is a multidisciplinary design company based in Johannesburg.
    Johannesburg, South Africa
  • Speaker 2017
    João Renato Orecchia Zúñiga
    Musician
    João Renato Orecchia Zúñiga is an artist, composer and maker of physical and virtual "things" that play with reality by deconstructing it.
    Johannesburg, South Africa
  • Andile Dyalvane Speaker 2017
    Andile Dyalvane
    Ceramicist
    Renowned ceramicist and Design Indaba Emerging Creative alumnus, Majolandile ‘Andile’ Dyalvane is the founder of Imiso Ceramics.
    Cape Town, South Africa
  • Chris Sheldrick Speaker 2017
    Chris Sheldrick
    Technology Designer
    Chris Sheldrick is the founder of what3words, an addressing app that assigns a sequence of three simple words to any location in the world.
    London, United Kingdom
  • Robin Rhode Speaker 2017
    Robin Rhode
    Artist
    Berlin-based South African artist Robin Rhode uses public space as a stage for his highly visual work.
    South Africa, Berlin
  • Koen Vanmechelen Speaker 2017
    Koen Vanmechelen
    Artist
    Conceptual artist Koen Vanmechelen explores the importance of biocultural diversity, identity and community in his Cosmopolitan Chicken Project.
    Belgium
  • Hanif Kara Speaker
    Hanif Kara
    Engineer
    Hanif Kara is a structural engineer, Design Director of AKT II as well as Professor in Practice at Harvard GSD.
    London, United Kingdom
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