Design Indaba Archive

Hilary Cottam: Social problems can be solved by using new digital solutions

Video Interviews • Duration: 00:01:05 • 22 Feb 16

Social designer and Design Indaba Conference speaker Hillary Cottam posits that digital tools are the key to innovative solutions to modern social problems. >
Prepd Pack reimagines the lunchbox

Design News • 22 Feb 16

Modular lunchbox and app system, Prepd Pack is a convenient and healthy way to plan lunch. >
Nendo’s distinctive chocolates are a journey into shape, taste and texture

Design News • 22 Feb 16

Nendo, the Japanese design firm, took on something that a number of people consider perfect in its design: chocolate. >
New affordable houses in Paris leech onto existing buildings

Design News • 22 Feb 16

Stephane Malka Architects’ modular city home will sell at 40 per cent below the market price. >
The Playtime in Africa initiative is a public space for Ghana’s children

Design News • 22 Feb 16

Mmofra Place will nurture growth, creativity, and expression in a public space designed for children. >
Day three of Design Indaba 2016 – and that's a wrap!

Design News • 19 Feb 16

A celebration of language in eight words, four bright young designers and five songs from the wonderful Imogen Heap. And more! >
Naresh Ramchandani’s eight all-time favourite words

Design News • 19 Feb 16

“Eight Words” is Naresh Ramchandani’s ode to the words he likes best in the English language. >
Laduma’s shawl is the Most Beautiful Object in South Africa

Festival News • 19 Feb 16

Nominated by Tracey Lynch, the shawl designed by Laduma Ngoxolo has won the honour of Most Beautiful Object in South Africa. >
This designer is experimenting with emotions

Next Generation • 19 Feb 16

Israeli-born multidisciplinary artist Naama Schendar is exploring individuality and indentity through experiments with trauma and empathy. >
Beercycling transforms urine into beer

Design News • 19 Feb 16

Northern Europe’s largest festival turns festivalgoers’ urine into fertiliser for barley crops >
Tiger Maremela uses digital collage to examine black masculinities in the “Rainbow Nation”

Design News • 19 Feb 16

Joburg-based Tiger Maremela uses popular South African consumer products in their digital art to examine capitalism, modernisation and black masculinities. >
Design Without Borders: Introducing user-centred design to Uganda

Video Interviews • Duration: 00:03:41 • 19 Feb 16

Design Without Borders facilitates projects in Uganda using user-centred design. >
Day two of Design Indaba Conference 2016

Design News • 18 Feb 16

The second day of Conference 2016 took us from architecture in Japan to a kitchen in Spain ended with a heavy hit of Swedish rock. >
Twins Cartoon release a comic in English

Design News • 18 Feb 16

Twins Cartoon release their comic magazine Garage in English for the first time at Design Indaba Conference. >
Redesigning a product that helps you do good

Design News • 18 Feb 16

Award-winning designer Benjamin Hubert teamed up with Acts of Random Kindness to design a new ARK. >
The designer works as the creative catalyst, says Fred Gelli

Design News • 18 Feb 16

Focused on sustainable design, Fred Gelli believes we’ll need to redesign the way we live. >
Francois Knoetze's mythical trash creatures reveal our terrible treatment of waste

Next Generation • Duration: 00:06:30 • 18 Feb 16

The five mythical Cape Mongo characters are each made of discarded waste from the city of Cape Town. >
Basia Dżaman’s carbon fibre 3D printer of the future

Design News • 18 Feb 16

Polish student Basia Dżaman modified a robotic arm using specially designed, 3D printed tools. >
Ugandan motor company unveils Africa's first solar bus

Design Frontiers • 18 Feb 16

Uganda-based Kiira Motors revealed the first solar-powered bus in Africa – the Kayoola prototype bus. >
Day one of Design Indaba Conference 2016

Design News • 17 Feb 16

Day one of Design Indaba Conference 2016 brought audiences stories of courage, collaboration, confetti and cocks. >
Michael Wolff: The story of four rooms

Design News • Duration: 00:03:46 • 17 Feb 16

Design consultant Michael Wolff encourages young designers to trust in their ability to create something new. >
Thomas Chapman has built a screen to memorialise the forcibly removed residents of Sophiatown

African Report • 17 Feb 16

Thomas Chapman, in collaboration with Nedbank and Design Indaba, unveiled a remembrance screen for the displaced residents of Sophiatown. >
Christophe Guberan’s living textiles self-adapt, move, and transform

Design News • 17 Feb 16

Global graduate Christophe Guberan creates products that challenge the limits of matter. >
Rich Mnisi on his latest collection and what informs his design process

Q&A • 17 Feb 16

We talk to fresh-faced South African fashion designer, Rich Mnisi about his bold new menswear pieces. >

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