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Award-winning artist and designer Es Devlin designed the UK Pavilion for Expo 2020 Dubai
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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
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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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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
Design Indaba x Radisson Blu Hotel
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Design Indaba Conference 2018 delegates can take advantage of this special accommodation offer
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2 Aug 18
Designing for urban mobility means learning from the past and predicting for the future
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Trans Utopias is an exhibition which explores the way we design our transport systems in the past, present and for the future.
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25 Jul 18
HUT: Architecture concept for a spiritual community
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This Italian design group has conceptualised a meditative hub for Tanaf Village, Senegal.
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20 Jul 18
Can you deliver affordable housing while increasing the quality?
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The Casas Melhoradas aims to do this in Maputo where 80 per cent of the population is estimated to be living in informal settlements.
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19 Jul 18
Peter Veenstra to build dome of plants at Design Indaba venue in Cape Town
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Dutch landscape architect Peter Veenstra has revealed plans to build a plant-covered bamboo sphere in Cape Town's Luthuli Plaza.
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17 Jul 18
5 key trends from Design Indaba
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And what brands can learn from Africa's most creative conference.
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16 Jul 18
Design Indaba 2018: A festival of optimism in the face of ecological turmoil
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Design Indaba 2018 once again lured a roster of international designers, filmmakers, musicians and other artists to Cape Town.
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16 Jul 18
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