May 2019 Archive

Congolese storyteller is breathing new life into African mythologies

Next Generation • 16 May 19

Yamakasi's project, through the power of social media, helped bring together illustrators and colourists from Nigeria, Cameroon and the Republic of Congo >
Shaina Garfield on how we can benefit the Earth after death

Talks • 16 May 19

She shared how her project Leaves proposes a sustainable coffin that will help the body decompose naturally. >
Mirjam de Bruijn's work explores the border between function and aesthetics

Talks • 15 May 19

She speaks about Twenty, a range of waterless dissolvable capsules that take away the need to use 80 - 95% water to make these products. >
Exploring Shantell Martin’s unique interactive illustrations

Design News • 15 May 19

The London-born, New York-based artist is creating larger than life artworks that comment on intersectionality, identity and play. >
Tshepo Mokholo on the transformational power of architecture to inspire

Talks • 14 May 19

The African Design Centre graduate on how growing up in an unusual house in Soweto would later inspire his career in design. >
Carolien Niebling is creating the sausage of the future

Talks • 14 May 19

Product designer Carolien Niebling believes that people can make a difference if they just take a moment to look at things a little differently. >
Building a more sustainable future

Design Frontiers • 14 May 19

The architectural and engineering industries need to come up with new, gentler ways to construct future projects. >
Meet the A' Design Awards and Competition winners

Design Frontiers • 13 May 19

These are just some of the winners across nearly 100 different design categories. >
Warka Water is finding innovative solutions to water, energy and housing problems

Design Frontiers • 13 May 19

The structure has been shortlisted for the 2019 Aga Khan Award for Architecture. >
How Hannah Barry is revolutionising the London art scene

Talks • 13 May 19

She may not call herself an art curator but Hannah Barry explains how she revived an art scene via an abandoned car park. >
Meet the South African artists exhibiting at La Biennale Di Venezia

Design News • 10 May 19

Titled The Stronger We Become, the South African Pavilion will feature works by Dineo Seshee Bopape, Tracey Rose and Dineo Seshee Bopape. >
Artist Olivié Keck plays where tech meets art

Design Frontiers • 10 May 19

The South African artist brings the worlds of her psychedelic artworks to life through VR. >
This Icelandic designer is making vodka out of food waste

Next Generation • 9 May 19

Björn Steinar believes it’s no use being a designer who identifies problems in theory without providing real solutions. >
First ever Ghana Pavilion at Venice Art Biennale designed by David Adjaye

Talks • Duration: 00:43:07 • 9 May 19

The historic event is a celebration of Ghana's untapped cultural capital. >
Annabelle Selldorf on architecture's responsibility beyond the building

Talks • 8 May 19

The veteran architect questions the greater role architects need to play after erecting projects in underresourced areas. >
Kgodisho Mowa’s work tackles inequality and political apathy

Design News • 8 May 19

"Countless people are fighting for equality and fairness, and fighting for broken promises by the government, but they don't get the spotlight they deserve.” >
Manipulating bad eating habits with product design

Design News • 7 May 19

Portion Distortion is a conceptual design project that explores the psychology behind our eating behaviour. >
Ethical, local fashion in Kampala

Video Interviews • Duration: 00:03:09 • 7 May 19

Ugandan-born fashion designer Edward Sempa talks about how the fashion industry across the world is changing to suit our desire for instant gratification. >
Ida is a non-invasive, painless way to test blood/glucose levels

Talks • 7 May 19

“When designing for these diseases, you’re not designing to please or impress. You design because people are on fire and you might just have the water.” >
Blockchain in Africa, the leapfrog continent

Design Frontiers • 6 May 19

Africa’s embrace of the technology could put it in a position to take a developmental detour. >
Inclusive, human-centred furniture for the disabled

Next Generation • Duration: 00:06:59 • 6 May 19

Inspired by her sister who has Down's Syndrome, the designer behind this furniture range uses a human-centred approach to design. >
Alice Rawsthorn on bad design

Talks • 6 May 19

“We desperately need good design in this world and we desperately don't need bad design. That's why it's so important that we should come to terms with it.” >
Sticklit is democratising literature and art

Design Frontiers • 3 May 19

How a reading culture can be fostered by means of public art. >
John Pawson on the discipline of minimalism

Talks • 3 May 19

“It takes great discipline to reduce until you can't further subtract anymore." >

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