2017 Archive

Christian Benimana on architecture that serves the community

Talks • Duration: 00:24:23 • 19 Apr 17

In his talk, Benimana asks a series of questions about the capabilities of the built environment: can a building heal, can a neonatal ward celebrate childhood? >
Dutch designer Vera de Pont on making fashion sustainable and DIY

Talks • Duration: 00:08:29 • 24 Apr 17

She believes fashion could be downloadable and open source where designers become facilitators that guide the customer instead of being in control. >
Kyla Philander on using empathy as a design tool

Talks • Duration: 00:05:42 • 26 Apr 17

This South African storyteller, musician and videographer looks to creativity as a positive outlet for violence, hurt and low self-esteem. >
Airbnb is tapping into its network to help resettle refugees

Talks • Duration: 00:33:20 • 1 Jun 17

Co-Founder & CPO Joe Gebbia announces that over 16,000 Airbnb hosts have already signed up to host refugees for free. >
Winy Maas on innovating into the future of architecture

Talks • Duration: 00:40:08 • 5 Jul 17

The Dutch architect chats about how he is unlocking the potential of buildings in overcrowded cities. >
Yinka Ilori on telling stories through furniture design

Talks • Duration: 00:20:30 • 10 Jul 17

“If the chair you are sitting on could tell your story, would it be a dangerous or good thing?” >
Growing mushrooms in camel dung to raise planetary chickens

Talks • Duration: 00:27:55 • 12 Jul 17

Belgian chicken artist Koen Vanmechelen and Zimbabwean activist Chido Govera talk about the Planetary Community Chicken Project at Design Indaba 2017. >
Jabu Nadia Newman talks about the importance of womxn in film

Talks • Duration: 00:18:08 • 13 Jul 17

“My design method is film, specifically telling stories through images.” >
Punk designer Kate Moross on breaking the rules and rebelling against polarities

Talks • Duration: 00:39:01 • 14 Jul 17

On the Design Indaba Conference stage, the multi-tasking creative discusses her unconventional approach to design. >
Unwind: Music as an alternative to traditional medicine

Talks • Duration: 00:22:12 • 17 Jul 17

Marko Ahtisaari presents Unwind, a global experiment in drug-free ways to treat physical and mental health. >
Chris Sheldrick’s what3words is redefining the global address system

Talks • Duration: 00:19:31 • 19 Jul 17

Making the world a less frustrating, more efficient and safer place. >
Filmmakers Lernert & Sander address piracy in the creative industry

Talks • Duration: 00:35:03 • 21 Jul 17

Their approach to their talk at the Design Indaba Conference 2017 was no different to their stunningly cheeky designs. >
Ayse Birsel on designing a meaningful future for yourself

Talks • Duration: 00:20:02 • 24 Jul 17

The award-winning designer talks about applying design processes to our daily lives. >
Experience designer Nelly Ben Hayoun on colonising Mars with the worms from hell

Talks • Duration: 00:47:34 • 26 Jul 17

In her Design Indaba Conference talk she introduces us to her project called The Life, the Sea and the Space Viking. >
Designing for an inclusive & considered future with Grace Jun

Talks • Duration: 00:10:17 • 28 Jul 17

“Less about perfection, but rather a desire to have more options.” >
Design duo Dokter and Misses about the importance of the aesthetic function of products they create

Talks • Duration: 00:26:21 • 31 Jul 17

“Aesthetic fuction is more important. How we designed what you don’t see,” on their wildly popular LALA Surma drinks cabinet. >
Kaja Dahl on exploring the natural essence of Cape Town in scent form

Talks • Duration: 00:08:31 • 2 Aug 17

She collected samples of soil, dried fynbos, wood, stone and seaweed to distil an accurate fragrance of the city’s landscape. >
Pauline Saglio makes digital design tangible

Talks • Duration: 00:09:47 • 4 Aug 17

The media and interaction designer’s work challenges perceptions of interactive and digital projects. >
Shoko Tamura on designing garments that amplify personal expression

Talks • Duration: 00:11:01 • 7 Aug 17

The Keio University student says wearable technology could redefine the way people play in urban landscapes. >
Marina Willer on why designers should be creating frameworks for accepting political change

Talks • Duration: 00:29:56 • 10 Aug 17

The partner at Pentagram on Brexit, family, history and the power of design during these changing political times. >
Bo-Won Keum on using design to help elevate the voices of prison inmates

Talks • Duration: 00:11:22 • 11 Aug 17

The graphic designer worked on a monochromatic book that had handwritten book requests and thank you notes from US prison inmates. >
Jesper Brodin & Marcus Engman on the start of IKEA’s new African collaboration

Talks • Duration: 00:08:14 • 14 Aug 17

“We like to work in an open way, because we believe in that way of co-creating things.” >
Tea Uglow on the creative unknown and dispelling misplaced confidence in reality

Talks • Duration: 00:31:26 • 16 Aug 17

Tea Uglow, the director of Google’s Creative Lab in Sydney on her work at the intersection of tech and creativity. >
Isabel Mager on identifying the human body behind the making of high-tech gadgets

Talks • Duration: 00:12:04 • 18 Aug 17

What human narrative exists beneath our shiny 21st-century products? >

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