urban planning | Design Indaba

The DisOrdinary Architecture Project is creating inclusive urban spaces

Design Frontiers > Architecture & Interiors / Design Activism / Design Thinking / Urban & Landscape Design

“People are only disabled when they are confronted with a barrier. If those barriers are removed, the disability ceases to exist.” >

17 Sep 19
City residents are helping design public space with Minecraft

Design News > Urban & Landscape Design

The popular video game has proven a useful tool for community engagement. >

12 Jul 19
Omar Nagati on renegotiating Downtown Cairo through design

Design News > African Design / Urban & Landscape Design

“You need to include in any plan or revision for Downtown or any neighbourhood, the local community, which is not necessarily the case so far." >

3 May 19
Mapping the complexity of access and ethics in Johannesburg

Design News > African Design / Urban & Landscape Design

We fail to think of residents, particularly if they happen to be poor, as full and complex human beings whose passions and needs morph over time >

4 Dec 18
Designing for urban mobility means learning from the past and predicting for the future

Design Frontiers > Architecture & Interiors / Industrial Design / Urban & Landscape Design

Trans Utopias is an exhibition which explores the way we design our transport systems in the past, present and for the future. >

25 Jul 18
When a natural disaster occurred in Chile, Alejandro Aravena and his team set out to rebuild the city

Talks > Architecture & Interiors / Urban & Landscape Design

The architect tackles the reconstruction of a city through public participation. >

9 Jul 18
Can you redevelop a big city like Lagos without displacing the poor?

Design News > African Design / Urban & Landscape Design

Urban planner Lookman Oshodi seems to think it is possible. >

13 Apr 18
How can architecture aid those who experience exclusion?

Design Frontiers > Architecture & Interiors / Urban & Landscape Design

This new initiative seeks to explore urban environments from the perspective of a teenage girl. >

13 Mar 18
9 Design Indaba speakers that told us more about the future of architecture

Design News > Architecture & Interiors

How can the built world be improved? Take a look at the different approaches to architecture innovation presented by our speakers this year. >

1 Mar 18
Marcus Engman talks about the role furniture will play in the home of the future

Video Interviews > Architecture & Interiors

IKEA's Head of Design says design should be more inclusive and serve the needs of more people instead of a few. >

10 Nov 17
A floating public pool designed to revive Melbourne’s Yarra River

Design News > Architecture & Interiors / Urban & Landscape Design

London-based architects Studio Octopi proposed a floating pool to activate community interest around the cleanup of the Yarra River. >

13 Jul 17
Detroit studio Thing Thing disrupts traditional methods of production

Design News > Design Thinking / Product Design

Thing Thing consider their work to fall somewhere between architecture and a party. >

26 May 17
This graphic novel is educating Chicago’s youth about their civic responsibility

Design News > Art & Photography / Design Activism

From Chicago Architecture Foundation, No Small Plans is designed to provide civic education. >

21 Apr 17
Informal is the new normal with activist architect Alfredo Brillembourg

Talks > African Design / Architecture & Interiors / Urban & Landscape Design

Venezuelan architect Alfredo Brillembourg shares his thoughts on a new urban toolbox that can help us change the way growing cities are being organised. >

11 Nov 16
Border City: An integrated plan to trash the US, Mexico border debate

Design News > Architecture & Interiors

Border City is an ambitious plan to rid the United States and Mexico of its divides. >

28 Sep 16
Wake up, This is Joburg: A series that uncovers the peculiarities of the city

Design News > African Design / Art & Photography

"Wake up, This is Joburg" is a series of 10 books that tells the stories of the peculiar urban inhabitants of Johannesburg. >

27 Jul 16
Willy-Wonka style elevators proposed for London

Design Frontiers > Architecture & Interiors

Elevators that transport Londoners out of the subway up to their office blocks using upward, downward and sideways movement. >

14 Jun 16
China's futuristic bus allows cars to pass underneath its carriages

Design News > Urban & Landscape Design

The Transit Explore Bus was designed to tackle extreme traffic congestion and pollution in China. >

27 May 16
Traffic lights designed for distracted walkers

Design News > Urban & Landscape Design

The German city of Augsburg installs pavement lights to ensure the safety of pedestrians distracted by their phones. >

5 May 16
Cape Town set to build its first blind-friendly outdoor park

Design News > African Design / Urban & Landscape Design

A park specially designed to accommodate those with impaired vision - the first of its kind in Cape Town. >

24 Mar 16
Counterspace: Architects investigate Johannesburg’s abandoned mine dumps

Video Interviews > Architecture & Interiors / Urban & Landscape Design

Collaborative studio, Counterspace investigates the meaning of lost and found spaces in South Africa’s city of gold. >

14 Mar 16
Greening Madrid to reduce the impact of climate change

Design News > Urban & Landscape Design

Sustainable design firm Arup devises a plan to regulate the greening of infrastructure and buildings in Spain’s capital city. >

24 Feb 16
Tropical utopian city proposed for Malaysian coastline

Design News > Urban & Landscape Design

Sasaki imagines a thriving mangrove marina, rooftop park network and global hub for Forest City. >

5 Feb 16
The Dencity Competition co-founders on rethinking slums

Inside View > Urban & Landscape Design

The social architects behind non-profit organisation, Shelter Global share their experiences on confronting the world’s shelter crisis. >

4 Feb 16

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