Design Indaba Archive

Tandekile Mkize on unafraid self-expression using film, photography and fashion

Design News • 15 Jul 19

Tandekile Mkize gives us an inside look into his bold and unapologetic work, which he exhibited at Design Indaba Festival 2019 >
Designing kangas that celebrate queer love

Design Frontiers • 15 Jul 19

Artist and LGBTQ+ activist Kawira Mwirichia is reclaiming the culturally significant garment to celebrate queer love in Kenya. >
Argentinian artist uses 100, 000 banned books to build a monument

Design News • 14 Jul 19

Conceptual artist Marta Minujín has created a full-scale replica of the Parthenon – one of the world’s most famous structures. >
The Algae Dome imagines a future of architecture-powered food

Design Frontiers • 14 Jul 19

Where sustainable food design and public architecture intersect. >
The whimsical illusions of Moography

Design News • 13 Jul 19

This visual artist turns the common smartphone into an eccentric, interactive toy. >
A revival of stone architecture in Palestine

Design News • 12 Jul 19

This sculptural project brings together ancient stonework and cutting-edge design methods. >
Could this convenient bug harvesting design make insect-based diets popular?

Design Frontiers • 12 Jul 19

Living Farms is being spearheaded by Austrian multidisciplinary designer, Katharina Unger. >
City residents are helping design public space with Minecraft

Design News • 12 Jul 19

The popular video game has proven a useful tool for community engagement. >
Why Mexican squares may be the best public spaces in the world

Design Frontiers • 12 Jul 19

Plaza Ciudadela won’t win any design awards, but it accomplishes something far more important: it draws a crowd of all ages. >
Hafeez Floris captures the other side of South Africa's townships

Design Frontiers • 12 Jul 19

His photography shows the more childlike and creative side to people in areas like Manenberg and Soweto. >
Skip the trip to the fertility clinic with Yo Home Sperm

Design Frontiers • 11 Jul 19

In just a few minutes, this app offers men valuable reproductive information. >
Is it possible for childbearing to happen outside the human body?

Next Generation • Duration: 00:09:55 • 11 Jul 19

Billie Rehwald talks about her project Ectogenesis, which is looking at using design as a tool to consider this possible reality. >
Caroline Smeenk makes it easier for rural women to independently monitor their health

Video Interviews • Duration: 00:02:17 • 11 Jul 19

"Antenna helps you broaden your horizons and scope of what you see as design." >
Design Indaba Emerging Creatives: Where are they now?

Design News • 11 Jul 19

We talk to some of the South African creatives who used the programme as a career launchpad. >
Celeste Arendse on sustainable and ethical fashion

Design News • 10 Jul 19

The Cape Town fashion designer has gone from being inspired by Picasso and rock art to more neutral tones with classic silhouettes. >
Les Chaises Koubeyni is an artistic response to the concept of hospitality

Design Frontiers • 10 Jul 19

In Niger's capital city, Niamey, artists from the city as well as those from Madrid got together to build an amulet to reflect on hospitality. >
Mapitso Thaisi talks culture, fashion and recognising Africa's impact

Design News • 10 Jul 19

The law graduate-cum-designer chats to us about her Basotho inspired swimwear range, Shweshwekini. >
A future where calling a human stand-in is as easy as calling an Uber

Next Generation • Duration: 00:09:09 • 10 Jul 19

It’s already possible, but what if it evolves into more than just hiring someone to stand in line, and Other-Self Agency replaces interactions with loved ones? >
Atolye on creating a space where community and strategic design meet

Design Frontiers • 9 Jul 19

"There are many untapped markets as well as industries that need radical interventions" says architect Nesile Yalcin. >
Using unconventional materials to create wearable art

Design News • 9 Jul 19

Shaline Naicker uses photochromic lenses within her work as she focuses on merging technology and fashion. >
Grow edible algae in your home

Design Frontiers • 9 Jul 19

The Coral is an indoor micro-algae farm designed to welcome algae into our everyday lives. >
This lightweight, flexible shoe is made from ‘algae foam’

Design Frontiers • 8 Jul 19

VIVOBAREFOOT and Bloom team up on the world’s first shoe made with the material. >
Gourmet Grubb makes the world’s first insect-derived dairy alternative

Design News • 8 Jul 19

Leah Bessa takes us behind the scenes at her new pop-up restaurant in Woodstock, The Insect Experience by Gourmet Grubb. >
How floating homes will help people in flood-prone countries

Design Frontiers • 8 Jul 19

Dream Homes is a project by Dundee University in which they co-designed with local Bangladeshis to create resilient floating homes. >

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