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Designer Anne Kiwia upcycles discarded cloths to create high fashion headbands
Design News
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22 Apr 19
“We have enough clothes. The world is full of it. We need to start protecting our environment and stop being needless consumers.”
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Feyi Olubodun on what international brands get wrong about the African consumer
Design News
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23 Apr 19
"I argue very strongly that sophistication and westernisation don’t mean the same thing. You can be sophisticated and not be westernised."
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Toyin Ojih Odutola’s portraits show black skin as textured and diverse
Design News
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23 Apr 19
“We have enough about what my skin looks like but what does it feel like?’
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Sierra Leonean artist explores identity and human expression
Design Frontiers
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23 Apr 19
Ngadi Smart, a photographer from Sierra Leone, captures the diverse ways people express their identity.
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Afrominima is a Nigerian lifestyle brand inspired by Japanese and Scandinavian aesthetics
Design News
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24 Apr 19
The Olubunmi Adeyemi-helmed brand brings the minimalist movement to Africa.
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Joy Buolamwini uses art and research to show the social implications of AI
Design Frontiers
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25 Apr 19
The Ghanaian-American computer scientist and digital activist spoke to us during her Cape Town visit.
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This Angolan innovation hub is helping to transform the nation’s creative sector
Design Frontiers
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25 Apr 19
We chat to some of the Fábrica de Sabão team about innovation, community upliftment and serving Africa first.
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AZEEMA is here to display beauty and dispel myths
Design News
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26 Apr 19
“It is a celebration of heritage, culture and diversity, yet equally a champion for empowerment and progressive change."
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The all-woman band taking over a space traditionally reserved for men
Design News
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26 Apr 19
New York’s Flor de Toloache talk preserving culture, women empowerment and taking on the male-dominated world of Mariachi.
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Can the architecture of a prison contribute to the rehabilitation of its inmates?
Design Frontiers
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29 Apr 19
"Every inmate in Norwegian prisons are going back to the society. Do you want people who are angry — or people who are rehabilitated?”
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Federico Babina uses architecture to explain mental illness
Design News
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29 Apr 19
Babina cleverly represents what different mental illnesses look like.
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This photographer gave homeless people cameras to document their lives
Design News
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30 Apr 19
After five days, 45 of the cameras were returned and over 600 images developed. The results were astonishing.
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Accra's Arch Xenus is redefining what it means to be a successful architectural firm
Design Frontiers
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1 May 19
We met the founder and principal architect who shared more about their approach to business.
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Meet Botswana's Queens of Marok
Design News
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2 May 19
South African photographer Paul Shiakallis documents the leather-wearing women of Botswana’s heavy metal scene.
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Omar Nagati on renegotiating Downtown Cairo through design
Design News
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3 May 19
“You need to include in any plan or revision for Downtown or any neighbourhood, the local community, which is not necessarily the case so far."
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Pixeland is China’s pixel-inspired park
Design Frontiers
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3 May 19
Created for the people of Mianyang, China, this multifunctional public space looks at how digital pixels can be used as functional art.
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Sticklit is democratising literature and art
Design Frontiers
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3 May 19
How a reading culture can be fostered by means of public art.
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Blockchain in Africa, the leapfrog continent
Design Frontiers
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6 May 19
Africa’s embrace of the technology could put it in a position to take a developmental detour.
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Manipulating bad eating habits with product design
Design News
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7 May 19
Portion Distortion is a conceptual design project that explores the psychology behind our eating behaviour.
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Kgodisho Mowa’s work tackles inequality and political apathy
Design News
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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.”
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This Icelandic designer is making vodka out of food waste
Next Generation
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9 May 19
Björn Steinar believes it’s no use being a designer who identifies problems in theory without providing real solutions.
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Artist Olivié Keck plays where tech meets art
Design Frontiers
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10 May 19
The South African artist brings the worlds of her psychedelic artworks to life through VR.
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Meet the South African artists exhibiting at La Biennale Di Venezia
Design News
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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.
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Warka Water is finding innovative solutions to water, energy and housing problems
Design Frontiers
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13 May 19
The structure has been shortlisted for the 2019 Aga Khan Award for Architecture.
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