2017 Archive

Free language education for the world

Video Interviews • Duration: 00:01:40 • 12 Apr 17

Tech entrepreneur Luis von Ahn created an app that enables anyone, anywhere to learn a language for free. >
Woza: The story of an African Surfer

Next Generation • 11 Apr 17

"Woza" tells the story of an African surfer who has been taken as a lover by the African water spirit Mami Wata. >
The robots are coming!

Design News • 10 Apr 17

AMP Robotics is revolutionising the waste processing industry by using robots for recycling – this age-old problem now has a new solution! >
The latest video from Björk is a virtual reality extravaganza

Design Frontiers • 10 Apr 17

The artist is leading the charge in terms of merging music and VR. >
The Girl Who Loves Roses tells the inspiring story of artist Panteha Abareshi

Design News • 5 Apr 17

Part of the Under Her Skin series, this short film explores the connection between pain and artistic expression. >
African aesthetic and Scandinavian sensibilities

Design News • Duration: 00:02:04 • 4 Apr 17

We chat to Marcus Engman, head of design at IKEA Sweden, about the new Afrikea collaboration between Design Indaba and IKEA. >
Wednesdays with Goddard

Design News • 29 Mar 17

A personal quest for spiritual enlightenment leads to romance and despair. >
Cairo: Youth in resistance

Design News • 28 Mar 17

Director Selim El Sadek documents the youth who challenge the system through hip hop in Cairo, Egypt. >
Grandmothers, Afrofuturism and Nairobi-beats

Design News • 27 Mar 17

Kenyan photographer Osborne Macharia directs his first film, the music video to Blinky Bill's new song "Atie". >
A shirt that pulsates with the intensity of music

Design News • 27 Mar 17

This wearable device allows the hearing impaired to experience music. >
Shape: Design is everywhere

Design News • 24 Mar 17

A film about design. If for one day you had the power to make your world work better, what would you change? >
Waves for Water

Design News • 22 Mar 17

This new documentary, released on World Water Day, follows former pro surfer Jon Rose and his mission to help bring clean drinking water to those in need. >
Hooded: Subversion through photography

Design News • 21 Mar 17

Myles Loftin confronts the stereotype of the hooded black man in a new multimedia project. >
The physicist who folds

Design Frontiers • 17 Mar 17

Physicist Robert lang left NASA to practice origami. Great Big Story tells us why. >
A look into the volume of the internet

Design News • Duration: 01:22 • 16 Mar 17

How much do you know about the design of the worldwide web? >
RiverBlue

Design News • Duration: 02:00 • 15 Mar 17

This film documents the unspoken cost of the global fashion industry. >
StelooLive: An experimental, electronic soundscape in Accra

Design News • 14 Mar 17

In this live mix of fashion, art and sound, Accra-based trail-blazer Dj Steloo creates an experimental soundscape using glass, spoons and cans as instruments. >
New subversive hip hop from Kenyan artist Muthoni Drummer Queen

Design News • 13 Mar 17

Kenyan rapper and singer, Muthoni Drummer Queen’s latest song is hip-hop activism at its finest. >
Young, fashionable and made in Dakar

Video Interviews • Duration: 00:03:22 • 10 Mar 17

Three young fashion designers on being creative and running fashion houses in Dakar. >
Let there be light: An update on the #AnotherLightUp project in Khayelitsha

Do Tank News • Duration: 00:04:48 • 9 Mar 17

Design is too important a source code to only be in service of brands. At Design Indaba we believe design’s most noble purpose is in service of people. >
The rhythm of weaving in Senegal

Video Interviews • Duration: 00:03:14 • 8 Mar 17

French weaver and designer Johanna Bramble talks us through tradition and texture in her Senegalese studio. >
Design Indaba founder Ravi Naidoo will curate the World Design Weeks Summit Helsinki 2017

Festival News • Duration: 00:01:03 • 6 Mar 17

World Design Weeks Summit Helsinki 2017 announces that Design Indaba's founder Ravi Naidoo will curate the 2017 event, on the 100th anniversary of Finland. >
Liberty knowledge shrine at Design Indaba Festival 2017

Festival News • Duration: 00:06:42 • 2 Mar 17

Liberty changing realities through knowledge at the Thirst & Know Bar at Design Indaba 2017. >
Nocturnal Animals

Design News • 24 Feb 17

An American neo-noir psychological thriller film written, co-produced, and directed by Tom Ford. >

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