Design Indaba Archive

Disrupting expensive city housing with Big World Homes

Design Frontiers • 21 Oct 16

Affordable, flat-packed homes that rethink the way people live. >
Design Indaba founder shares a new way of thinking

Festival News • 20 Oct 16

Ravi Naidoo sits down with Wanted Magazine and tells why, to differentiate, we must be led by design. >
The ‘glow-in-the-dark’, energy-efficient cycle lane

Design Frontiers • 20 Oct 16

This unique solar-powered bicycle path is guiding Poland’s nighttime cyclists. >
Chat with Trevor Stuurman

Video Interviews • 20 Oct 16

Take control of an interview with South African photographer, blogger and stylist Trevor Stuurman. >
Digitise your water supply

Design News • 20 Oct 16

Tanzania’s WaterTek aims to provide transparency and efficiency in rural areas. >
Ivorian “photo-maker” Paul Sika is turning his creative energy to the world of games

African Report • 20 Oct 16

Photography can no longer contain the whole of Paul Sika’s vision, instead he is choosing to tell his next story in a digital, transmedia fashion. >
Student invents ambulance drone for speedy medical assistance

Next Generation • 20 Oct 16

This engineering graduate is using drone tech as a force for good. >
Open source wheelchair for developing countries

Design Frontiers • 19 Oct 16

The SafariSeat by Kenya-based design team Uji is an open-source wheelchair specially tailored to the needs of people living in rural communities. >
Burkina Faso’s new parliamentary building celebrates the revolution

Design News • 19 Oct 16

Design Indaba alumnus Francis Kéré unveils the design for Burkina Faso’s new National Assembly. >
3D-bioprinted breast duct could minimise breast-cancer treatment

Design News • 19 Oct 16

Modern 3D-printing tech allows scientists to reconsider how they treat cancer. >
WaterSeer: Turning air into drinkable water

Design News • 19 Oct 16

This device claims to accelerate the production of pure drinking water. >
The stories clothes can tell

Design News • 19 Oct 16

Shwe – The Wearable Library makes it their mission to bring to life the invisible stories behind the garments we wear. >
Intimate Strangers: Izinja zempilo

Next Generation • 18 Oct 16

The third part of Intimate Strangers by South African Puleng Mogale is about brotherhood and friendship. Ride or die, friends to the end. >
Black Black Metal: The new wave of South African rock music

Design News • 18 Oct 16

This is South Africa’s burgeoning punk and metal scene in the heart of Soweto. >
The Readi box provides communication in catastrophic situations

Next Generation • 18 Oct 16

Should all else fail, this speaker unit helps you to keep in touch during a disaster. >
Senegalese sneakers by Nio Far

Product Spotlight • 18 Oct 16

Nnema, which means comfort, is the latest collection by Senegalese shoe brand Nio Far by Milcos. >
US student designs prosthetic hand-hack to aid one-handed violin player

Next Generation • 18 Oct 16

3D printed prosthetic helps this aspiring violinist reach for her dream. >
Handing over the camera to former child brides

Design News • 18 Oct 16

Veteran photographer Stephanie Sinclair teaches child brides to tell their own stories using basic photography. >
Upcycled chairs remember a childhood church congregation

Design News • 17 Oct 16

"A Swimming Pool of Dreams" is the latest immersive project by London-based Nigerian designer Yinka Ilori, telling six narratives of people who pray. >
The first bee born in captivity

Design News • 17 Oct 16

The Synthetic Apiary proposes an alternative living arrangement for bees. >
Heart-monitoring smart watch empowers wearers to live longer lives

Design Frontiers • 17 Oct 16

The iBeat is a life-saving wearable for every age. >
Hyperloop concept could be the railway transport of tomorrow

Design Frontiers • 17 Oct 16

Take a look at SpaceX’s evolution of maglev trains. >
The drone you can eat

Design Frontiers • 17 Oct 16

Edible and unmanned, this drone could be a game-changer for aid delivery. >
A unified African Identity with Daniel Ting Chong, OkayAfrica

Design News • 14 Oct 16

A new fashion range by Emerging Creative alumnus Daniel Ting Chong and OkayAfrica draws from the expressive nature of Africa’s national flags. >

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