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Making sense of Ghana’s built environment with architect Alice Asafu-Adjaye
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Design needs to be driven more by people’s needs and less by ego, says the architect.
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16 Nov 18
Drivelines is a building that does not conceal its true self
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LOT-EK architect Ada Tolla says they wanted to design a building as honest as Joburg itself.
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16 Nov 18
What can AI do for you?
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Daniel Ting Chong uses creative coding to create collaborative artwork for Design Indaba 2019.
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26 Oct 18
Rodrigo Garcia Gonzalez
Inventor, designer, architect and engineer.
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24 Oct 18
The Frame Awards 2019 will honour the world’s best interiors
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The international jury includes former Design Indaba speaker, Yinka Ilori.
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23 Oct 18
Unscrambling Africa photo project reveals the Africa beyond the slums and safaris
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Photographer Mutua Matheka launched his project to show the complex beauty of African cities.
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18 Oct 18
Three ways designers are preparing for disaster
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These innovations are not only responsive but empathetic, taking a human-centred approach to solutions-based design.
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12 Oct 18
Award-winning artist and designer Es Devlin designed the UK Pavilion for Expo 2020 Dubai
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Architecture & Interiors
The stage design pioneer to stars like Kanye West & Adele is about to design her first building.
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27 Sep 18
On the first national memorial to victims of lynching in the US
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Designed by MASS Design Group, who have offices in Boston and in Kigali, the memorial relies on sculpture, art, and design to contextualise racial terror.
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26 Sep 18
A delicate dance of history and modernity in Sudan
African Report
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African Design
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Our second report on Cairo-based architecture firm ARCHiNOS looks at the firm’s work on conserving Sudan's ancient treasures.
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25 Sep 18
A' Design Awards & Competition is calling for submissions
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The awards aim to highlight, advertise and advocate good design, designers and design-oriented companies.
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20 Sep 18
Five examples of great design from Singapore
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Proof that a small island can produce big creativity.
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17 Sep 18
Acknowledging Ghana's slave trade history with sculptor Kwame Akoto-Bamfo
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“As a Ghanaian who is interested and inspired by Ghanaian and African culture, I'm a living witness to the knowledge that is being lost to time.”
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14 Sep 18
On designing spaces with people's mental health in mind
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Siphilele Magagula on life after her conceptual Empathy Museum, fundraising to continue her studies and creating more spaces that heal.
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11 Sep 18
Design Indaba alumni V. Sunil and Mohit Jayal are injecting creativity into India's spaces
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In what may be their most ambitious project yet, Motherland have embarked on the task of reinventing a city.
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22 Aug 18
Architect Dong-Ping Wong to speak at Design Indaba 2019
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With several companies under his belt, Dong-Ping Wong’s work represents a new wave of architecture.
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21 Aug 18
Dong-Ping Wong
Architect Dong-Ping Wong is the founder and Director of FOOD, a design firm based in New York.
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17 Aug 18
Landscape architect Peter Veenstra on the importance of bringing nature into our cities
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Architecture & Interiors
Veenstra, of LOLA Landscapes, talks us through three projects including the Dome of Plants, planned for the City of Cape Town.
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17 Aug 18
Architect Annabelle Selldorf announced as Design Indaba speaker for 2019
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Architecture & Interiors
The founder of Selldorf Architects’ design language is quietly classic and highly considered.
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14 Aug 18
Annabelle Selldorf
Architect and founder of Selldorf Architects
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13 Aug 18
Somali Architecture students are stitching back the country's built heritage digitally
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Architecture & Interiors
The collective has been invited to represent the country at this year's London Design Biennale.
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12 Aug 18
Bridging the gap between architecture and entrepreneurship in Lesotho
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Daniela Gusman talks about the project as well as their international architecture competition, Rise In The City.
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10 Aug 18
Advice from past Design Indaba Emerging Creatives
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Here's what illustrator Daniel Ting Chong, director Anthony Silverston, artist Paul Senyol and furniture designer Neil Grantham have to say.
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8 Aug 18
Ensamble Studio on building flexible, stackable spaces and working with nature
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"When we look at nature we want to learn from it, we want to build with it."
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7 Aug 18
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