Design Indaba Archive

Meet the surfers of the Gaza Strip

Design News • 9 Jan 17

A community looking to the waves of the Mediterranean for relief. >
The Micro Wind Turbine: A portable, collapsible energy source

Product Spotlight • Duration: 01:21 • 9 Jan 17

This compact turbine is perfect for a nomadic lifestyle. >
Not a plastic bag

Design News • 6 Jan 17

India’s EnviGreen pushes 100 per cent biodegradable, edible alternatives to plastic. >
Wheelchair-friendly baby stroller for differently-abled parents

Design News • 6 Jan 17

A high school student has created a baby carrier wheelchair for a differently-abled parent to stroll with their newborn >
Molly Keogh: West African textiles, contemporary style

Video Interviews • Duration: 00:02:48 • 6 Jan 17

We talk to the designer behind the Accra-based fashion brand Osei-Duro. >
Free the nipple: LED teats contest censorship on Facebook

Design News • 5 Jan 17

Anonymous Spanish art collective Luzinterruptus create a carpet of glowing nipples outside Madrid's Facebook office to protest against censorship. >
The Svalbard Global Seed Vault

Design News • 5 Jan 17

This facility safeguards the building blocks of agriculture. >
Mamaope: A jacket that detects pneumonia

Design News • 5 Jan 17

A Ugandan graduate designed a high-tech wearable to fight the scourge of pneumonia in Sub-Saharan Africa. >
Algorithmically designed jewellery by Nervous System

Design News • 5 Jan 17

Made from brass and rubber, the Corollaria collection is inspired by science and technology. >
Hattie Newman: Creator of paper worlds

Video Interviews • Duration: 00:01:37 • 30 Dec 16

London-based set designer and paper artist Hattie Newman is in love with tactile things. >
Modern day Dracula and the plight of immigrants

Design News • 28 Dec 16

Artists adapt the classic tale of Dracula to explore the immigrant rights in the United States. >
The adventures of unconventional women

Design News • 26 Dec 16

Good Night Stories for Rebel Girls is a collection of alternative bedtime stories for girls. >
How an artist is helping rebuild Haiti

Design News • 23 Dec 16

The Konbit Shelter is a sustainable building project in Haiti >
Smokeless cooking in Kenya

Design News • 23 Dec 16

Fighting lower respiratory infection with innovative design. >
Things we learnt in 2016

Design News • 23 Dec 16

We share a few of the interesting, incredible and sometimes unbelievable things we learnt on Design Indaba this year. >
Minerae: Another way to touch light

Design News • 23 Dec 16

This conceptual designer thinks of ways to make new connections between us and our environment. >
Gemma O'Brien: The art of lettering

Video Interviews • Duration: 00:02:49 • 22 Dec 16

Letter artist Gemma O'Brien talks about the appeal of the handmade and the way that the shape of words can capture the character of a place. >
Beginning of Life

Design News • Duration: 02:37 • 22 Dec 16

Take a look at the live production that depicted the earliest years of life on Earth. >
Spying on a thief in this fascinating documentary

Design News • 21 Dec 16

Film student Anthony van der Meer made a documentary tracking his stolen phone and the thief who stole it >
Sailing the Seine on a ferry powered by human energy

Design Frontiers • 21 Dec 16

The latest eco-design from Carlo Ratti Associati takes human efficiency to the next level. >
Clever design: Little Sun original

Festival News • 20 Dec 16

Designed by an artist and an engineer, the Little Sun Original solar lamp is illuminating lives around the world. >
Anti-Human: An avant-garde photo series from the Kolor Art Collective

Design News • 20 Dec 16

Rio de Janeiro’s Kolor Art Collective present their latest photo series highlighting animal abuse >
#DesignIndaba2017: Grid appointed as brand agency!

Festival News • 20 Dec 16

Stop the press, Design Indaba has appointed a new brand agency! >
Cleaning up outer space with Kounotori’s electrified tether

Design Frontiers • 20 Dec 16

Scientists are testing ways to clear up the new problem of space pollution. >

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