Design Indaba Archive

Would you chew on meat flavoured gum?

Design News • 29 Mar 16

This is one of the meat related questions served up by a temporary conceptual butcher in The Netherlands. >
Plantable pencils challenge use-and-chuck-away culture

Design News • 29 Mar 16

The Sprout pencil grows into a plant if you place it in a pot. >
A squid bacteria lighting solution

Design Frontiers • 29 Mar 16

The nocturnal Hawaiian bobtail squid uses bacteria to help it see in the dark and so can we. >
Buy one give one: A blanket drive from Cape Town

Design Frontiers • 28 Mar 16

Umbala blankets are designed and locally manufactured by a studio that donate a blanket to a baby in need for every blanket they sell. >
3D-printed vase collection upcycles plastic bottles

Design Frontiers • 28 Mar 16

DesignLibero’s 3D-printed vase collection brings beauty to the practice of upcycling. >
Pedestrian and bicycle tunnel opens underneath Amsterdam Central station

Design Frontiers • 25 Mar 16

A beautiful and advanced tunnel for cyclists and pedestrians has opened underneath Amsterdam. >
Cubetto: A coding tutor for kids as young as three

Design News • 25 Mar 16

Cubetto by Primo Toys is a kid-friendly, wooden robot that teaches kids to code in a way they can see and touch. >
Osborne Macharia on how storytelling can change perceptions

Inside View • 24 Mar 16

The Kenyan photographer touches on the power of narrative photography with his series “Melanin-0”. >
Blurring the lines between art, architecture and design

Design Frontiers • 24 Mar 16

A design studio in Italy known for their anamorphic art have painted shape changing mural. >
Cape Town set to build its first blind-friendly outdoor park

Design News • 24 Mar 16

A park specially designed to accommodate those with impaired vision - the first of its kind in Cape Town. >
William Kentridge celebrates Rome’s history with a 550-metre frieze

Design News • 24 Mar 16

Using reverse graffiti, William Kentridge will wash his iconic stencils along the banks of the Tiber River in Rome. >
Notes on Blindness: A virtual reality experience

Design Frontiers • 23 Mar 16

“Notes on Blindness: Into Darkness” is a virtual reality film created from the audio diaries theologian John Hull kept as he went blind. >
“Kenya’s League of Extravagant Grannies”

Design News • 23 Mar 16

Osborne Macharia’s latest photographic narrative tells the tale of three retired ministers jet-setting around Africa. >
Bel & Bel are the leaders in supra-cycling

Design Frontiers • 23 Mar 16

Spanish design studio Bel&Bel save objects from falling into disuse by redesigning their purpose. >
Bangladesh-based start-up boasts zero-waste fashion

Design News • 23 Mar 16

Upcycling, recycling and reinvestment are the principles of this eco-friendly fashion brand. >
Andrew Merritt and Paul Smyth: Beyond the physical in experimental design

Video Interviews • Duration: 00:00:00 • 23 Mar 16

London-based practice Something & Son is known for their collaborations with experts who share their passion for socially driven projects. >
Fontus self-filling water bottles

Design News • 22 Mar 16

Water bottles designed to harvest water from the air using an internal condensation system. >
Nature already has a solution to water contamination

Design News • 22 Mar 16

Researchers look into an ancient Native American method of purifying water with cactus goo. >
Portable water purification for developing nations

Design Frontiers • 22 Mar 16

LifeStraw is a portable and affordable water purification tool for people in developing countries. >
WaterWheel: A rolling solution in rural India

Design News • 22 Mar 16

Wello Water’s WaterWheel lifts the physical burden of water collection in rural India. >
A faster, cheaper way to filter water using graphene

Design Frontiers • 22 Mar 16

Scientists have created a graphene-based water filter that could be a solution to the water crisis. >
Edible cutlery: Eat with it and then eat it

Design News • 21 Mar 16

In an attempt to curb the amount of waste caused by disposable cutlery, Narayana Peesapati has invented cutlery you can eat. >
CrowdVoice: An archive of social unrest from around the world

Design News • 21 Mar 16

Esra’a Al Shafei’s online platform curates user-generated content from protests around the world. >
Virtual reality used for drug rehabilitation

Design News • 21 Mar 16

Programme at the University of Houston treats drug and alcohol addiction with immersive VR scenarios. >

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