South Africa | Design Indaba

How the Vula app is revolutionising the South African healthcare system

Talks > Information Design / Product Design

Ophthalmologist William Mapham developed an app that provides aid to rural healthcare workers. >

29 May 18
Lebo Mashile on her life and how poetry and books became a lifeline

Talks > Art & Photography / Craft / Music & Sound Design

“Criss-crossing, jumping identities has been the story of my life.” >

9 May 18
The Freedom Day reading list

Design News > African Design / Design Activism

These projects highlight the complicated matter of South Africa's "freedom" through the eyes of creatives. >

27 Apr 18
Vukuzenzele is a digital puzzle game helping to redesign informal settlements

Design News > African Design / Interaction Design

The game uses the concept of re-blocking to reimagine the layout of an informal settlement in order to create better access to basic services. >

17 Apr 18
Photographs capture the dangerous practice of wine collecting in Namibia

Design News > African Design / Art & Photography

The palm wine collectors in Namibia risk their lives for their cultural practice. >

1 Apr 18
Cape Town architect Ilze Wolff is up for emerging architect of the year award

Design News > Architecture & Interiors

Wolff's work is as concerned with social transformation as it is with documenting Cape Town's architectural heritage. >

9 Feb 18
On what the abandoned landmarks of Joburg tell us about the city

Design News > African Design / Architecture & Interiors / Art & Photography

A story of neglect, dereliction and emptiness in Johannesburg. >

6 Jan 18
Justine Mahoney

An artist who communicates dark subjects through toy-like miniature sculptures of childhood innocence. >

7 Dec 17
Baba Tjeko’s illustrations bring the Sesotho geometric art of Litema to life

Design News > African Design / Art & Photography

He portrays African ideas and perspectives through his Litema artwork in hopes of positive change in other young designers. >

4 Oct 17
Street art as a form of mediation

Design News > Art & Photography / Urban & Landscape Design

He aspires to transform the city's streets to create dialogue and interaction between the environment and our experience of it. >

3 Oct 17
This Belgian-Zimbabwean concept uses mushrooms as a bridge when crossbreeding chicken and camelids

Video Interviews > Creative Economy / Design Activism

What do you get when you combine a mushroom, chicken and a camel? We talk to Koen Vanmechelen and Chido Govera about their planetary community chicken project. >

21 Sep 17
On creating an alternative to voyeuristic travel narratives

Design News > Art & Photography / Film & Animation

Carribean-American storyteller uses art-focussed web-series to weave tales about countries like South Africa and Mexico >

2 Aug 17
40 South African designers exhibit their goods in Paris

Design News > African Design / Architecture & Interiors

The Le BHV/ Marais department store is located in an area which attracts around 60 000 visitors daily. >

21 Jun 17
Haunting black and white images capture forced removals in Johannesburg

Design News > African Design / Art & Photography

Behind urban renewal is often the untold stories of poor families who are put out with nowhere else to go. >

6 Jun 17
Zemba Luzamba explores the migrant experience through depictions of ordinary people

Design News > Art & Photography

The Cape Town-based artist's eloquent oil paintings of everyday life encourage viewers to draw their own conclusions. >

30 May 17
Custodian of secrets Sinomonde Ngwane turns strangers' confessions into art

Inside View > African Design / Graphic Design & Illustration

We spoke to the South African graphic designer and illustrator Sinomonde Ngwane about her popular #DearDiarySeries and more. >

25 May 17
We caught up with graphic artist Leigh Le Roux

Design News > Graphic Design & Illustration

South African graphic designer uses emotive illustrations to tell the stories of ordinary people. >

22 May 17
Not here for men

Design News > Film & Animation / Music & Sound Design

3 Must-see music videos addressing the abuse of women. >

19 May 17
The twisted and wonderful illustrations of Shaun Hill

Design News > African Design / Graphic Design & Illustration

“It’s not so important to try to find inspiration, but rather to grab it when it comes naturally.” >

4 May 17
WhereIsMyTransport mapped the entire public transport network of Cape Town

Design News > Design Thinking / Information Design

WhereIsMyTransport has added Gauteng province, Kampala, Nairobi, Dar es Salaam and Kigali to the network of cities it covers. >

19 Apr 17
Roadhouse: Picturing South Africa's Ekurhuleni

Design News > African Design / Art & Photography

A new photography initiative in Gauteng, South Africa. >

31 Mar 17
The unspoken cost of precious metals

Lookbook > African Design / Art & Photography

A literal depiction of what we gain from mining versus the longterm landscape destruction that follows. >

27 Mar 17
The Thermotrap Project

Design News > African Design / Architecture & Interiors

This start-up initiative aims to uplift the living conditions of township residents. >

24 Mar 17
Buddibox: A community-driven courier network in South Africa

Design News > African Design / Design Activism

This organisation tackles local unemployment by facilitating small-scale courier services. >

20 Mar 17

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