Creative Work | Design Indaba

Neri Oxman’s installation exploring the possibilities of melanin

Design Frontiers > Architecture & Interiors

Through digital fabrication and design computation, the pigment could sustain and enhance the planet’s endangered biodiversity. >

5 Apr 19
Sir David Adjaye designs memorial in honour of Hugh Masekela

Design Frontiers > African Design / Architecture & Interiors / Craft / Urban & Landscape Design

The Masekela family, in collaboration with Design Indaba, will be unveiling a memorial pavilion during youth month. >

4 Apr 19
On building a disappearing city in the Moroccan Sahara

Design Frontiers > Architecture & Interiors / Urban & Landscape Design

"As designers, architects know how to build cities, but our field as a whole has not yet grasped how to make them disappear." >

4 Apr 19
The whimsical illustrations of Monica Obaga

Design Frontiers > African Design / Art & Photography

“I would say my aesthetic has always been whimsical because all my favourite media as a child were musicals, cartoons, books, comics and fashion.” >

3 Apr 19
Youngsta: Rapping the stories of the Cape Colony

Design News > African Design / Music & Sound Design

We sat down with one of South African rap's busiest and most artists. >

3 Apr 19
Constant, a photo series on pain, love and healing

Design News > Art & Photography

“The constant title came about when I had a serious reality check that I was the constant denominator in all my failed relationships." Basetsana Maluleka >

2 Apr 19
Alexis Peskine explores the black experience through unconventional mediums

Design News > African Design / Art & Photography / Design Activism

He speaks on his Afro-French heritage, immigration and the global black experience. >

2 Apr 19
The African crown reimagined

Design News > African Design / Art & Photography

Inspired by the work of J.D. Okhai Ojeikere, Medina Dugger and GIF artist François Beaurain celebrate the complexity of hair in Nigeria. >

1 Apr 19
Cross Cultural Chairs examines the role of the chair in our modern society

Design News > Craft / Industrial Design / Product Design

"Analysing a chair you can understand the stature of a culture, what kind of materials they used and what kind of techniques they knew." >

1 Apr 19
On cityscapes and soundsuits with future-proofing graduate Ines De Peuter

Design Frontiers > Fashion & Jewellery Design / Product Design

Ines De Peuter investigates the relationship between the self and its context by creating garments that adapt to the concrete jungle. >

1 Apr 19
How can storytelling help alleviate the effects of disease?

Design Frontiers > Information Design

Researchers are experimenting with various methods of engagement to gain insights in AIDS and antiretroviral treatment adherence. >

29 Mar 19
This Bible-verse inspired building has a unique swan-like design

Design News > Architecture & Interiors

The distinctive roof is a pearly white concrete structure with sweeping, futuristic curves. >

28 Mar 19
The world’s first 3D printed middle ear transplant happened in South Africa

Design Frontiers > African Design / Design Activism / Design Thinking / Industrial Design

We take a look at Professor Mashudu Tshifularo's achievement and other ways 3D technology has helped the medical field. >

27 Mar 19
One photographer's surrealist impression of mental illness

Design News > Art & Photography

Katie Joy Crawford was diagnosed young. This is how she sees her anxiety and depression. >

27 Mar 19
Abstract Peaces: Redefining mental illness

Design News > African Design / Art & Photography

Conceptual photographer Tsoku Maela challenges the stigma around mental illness by drawing on his personal experience. >

26 Mar 19
This device could simplify and reduce the costs of TB treatment

Design Frontiers > Product Design

An MIT research team conceived a device that would release a month’s supply of antibiotics within the body >

26 Mar 19
Four designers are looking to redesign the gynaecology experience

Design News > Design Activism / Design Thinking

Yona is trying to redesign the uncomfortable vaginal speculum using human-centred experience design. >

25 Mar 19
On being a young creative dealing with mental health

Design News > African Design / Art & Photography / Film & Animation / Graphic Design & Illustration

We spoke to past Design Indaba Emerging Creatives to unpack the way creativity and mental health co-exist in their lives. >

25 Mar 19
Zipline is the small medical drone in Rwanda solving a worldwide logistics problem

Design News > Design Activism / Product Design

"Health is where we found the connection between something we knew we could do and a problem that needed solving," Zipline's Keenan Wyrobek. >

25 Mar 19
The bizarre and confounding influence of Dubai on Africa’s emerging cities

Design Frontiers > African Design / Architecture & Interiors

Design researcher and built environment designer Mathias Agbo, Jr speaks to Nigerian, UAE-based architect Safiya Yahaya on this phenomenon >

22 Mar 19
SPACE10 creates SolarVille prototype for a cleaner future

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

"We can actively choose to take major steps to reduce global warming and stabilise our climate.” >

22 Mar 19
Mariam Kamara unveils a new collaboration with Design Indaba in Niger

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

The Artisan Valley is a whimsical promenade with spaces for local artisans to show off their traditional fabrication processes. >

20 Mar 19
Meet the landscape architect determined to save Bangkok from drowning

Design Frontiers > Architecture & Interiors / Urban & Landscape Design

“The health of the city is directly related to the health of the people. Right now the city is sick so we are all sick,” Kotchakorn Voraakhom. >

20 Mar 19
Cairo architect Nada Elhadedy on architecture driven by circumstance

Design News > African Design / Architecture & Interiors

“So instead of using the building as a barrier… we used it to promote openings and interaction.” >

20 Mar 19

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