Articles

The world’s first 3D printed middle ear transplant happened in South Africa

Design Frontiers • 27 Mar 19

We take a look at Professor Mashudu Tshifularo's achievement and other ways 3D technology has helped the medical field. >
One photographer's surrealist impression of mental illness

Design News • 27 Mar 19

Katie Joy Crawford was diagnosed young. This is how she sees her anxiety and depression. >
Abstract Peaces: Redefining mental illness

Design News • 26 Mar 19

Conceptual photographer Tsoku Maela challenges the stigma around mental illness by drawing on his personal experience. >
This device could simplify and reduce the costs of TB treatment

Design Frontiers • 26 Mar 19

An MIT research team conceived a device that would release a month’s supply of antibiotics within the body >
Four designers are looking to redesign the gynaecology experience

Design News • 25 Mar 19

Yona is trying to redesign the uncomfortable vaginal speculum using human-centred experience design. >
On being a young creative dealing with mental health

Design News • 25 Mar 19

We spoke to past Design Indaba Emerging Creatives to unpack the way creativity and mental health co-exist in their lives. >
Zipline is the small medical drone in Rwanda solving a worldwide logistics problem

Design News • 25 Mar 19

"Health is where we found the connection between something we knew we could do and a problem that needed solving," Zipline's Keenan Wyrobek. >
SPACE10 creates SolarVille prototype for a cleaner future

Design Frontiers • 22 Mar 19

"We can actively choose to take major steps to reduce global warming and stabilise our climate.” >
The bizarre and confounding influence of Dubai on Africa’s emerging cities

Design Frontiers • 22 Mar 19

Design researcher and built environment designer Mathias Agbo, Jr speaks to Nigerian, UAE-based architect Safiya Yahaya on this phenomenon >
Mariam Kamara unveils a new collaboration with Design Indaba in Niger

Design Frontiers • 20 Mar 19

The Artisan Valley is a whimsical promenade with spaces for local artisans to show off their traditional fabrication processes. >
Meet the landscape architect determined to save Bangkok from drowning

Design Frontiers • 20 Mar 19

“The health of the city is directly related to the health of the people. Right now the city is sick so we are all sick,” Kotchakorn Voraakhom. >
Cairo architect Nada Elhadedy on architecture driven by circumstance

Design News • 20 Mar 19

“So instead of using the building as a barrier… we used it to promote openings and interaction.” >
Ilze Wolff on creating an activist and public culture around architecture

Design News • 20 Mar 19

In this architectural practice collaboration with artists is just as important as working with other architects and engineers. >
Tumelo Lerata wins most promising award in international housing competition

Design Frontiers • 19 Mar 19

The "r.i.s.e in the city" design competition is aimed at bridging the gap between entrepreneurship and architecture. >
Could embracing the informality of South Africa’s chaotic taxi industry do more good than bad?

Design News • 18 Mar 19

Researcher and urban planner Zonke Mkhomazi discusses the history and future of transport in South Africa. >
8 emerging fashion designers on their interpretation of South African fashion

Next Generation • 15 Mar 19

These designers were part of this year's Design Indaba Emerging Creatives Programme. >
Jalila Essaïdi’s project turns cow dung into textiles

Design Frontiers • 14 Mar 19

Designer and entrepreneur Jalila Essaïdi says we have an untapped natural resource in manure. >
4 graphic designers experimenting with colour and tackling taboos

Design News • 14 Mar 19

These are the graphic designer who were a part of the Design Indaba Emerging Creatives exhibition, a smorgasbord of young South African talent. >
7 Interior designers that should be on your radar

Next Generation • 13 Mar 19

As part of the Emerging Creatives programme, these young designers exhibited their work at the Design Indaba Festival 2019. >
Wacy Zacarias on taking back the African textile market

Design News • 13 Mar 19

The Mozambican entrepreneur started Karingana Wa Karingana Textiles to create authentic African prints. >
The coveted items that make up the IKEA Överallt collection

Design Frontiers • 13 Mar 19

“This is how design makes the world smaller and brings people from different cultures closer together,” Bibi Seck. >
Ify Ojo tells the stories we never hear through textile design

Design Frontiers • 12 Mar 19

The Nigerian, Canada-based designer pays tribute to the women of Africa with Stèlà Textile. >
Adebayo Oke-Lawal on using fashion as a tool for social change

Design Frontiers • 12 Mar 19

"I feel like fashion will be such a huge part of the way Africa shapes its future and the way Africa progresses as a people." >
Dezeen Awards 2019 are encouraging African designers to enter

Design Frontiers • 11 Mar 19

Dezeen Awards is the benchmark for international design excellence and the ultimate accolade for architects and designers everywhere. >
Could a synthetic brain make manufacturing automation accessible for all?

Design Frontiers • 6 Mar 19

Imagine a future in which anyone with a dream can easily turn it into a physical product. >
Neo African artist Dennis Osadebe’s new work is begging us to Stand for Something

Design Frontiers • 5 Mar 19

“I ask myself again and again. What is African art? Who gets to define it? What are its limits? And where is it going?” >
#GlobalGrad Tshepo Mokholo on innovating traditional architectural practises

Design News • 4 Mar 19

The Soweto-born architect, who is also a former Emerging Creative, tells us how a chance meeting landed him in Kigali. >
Interdependence II by Houtlander named Most Beautiful Object in South Africa 2019

Design News • 1 Mar 19

The public has spoken! Take a look at this year’s winning design in the question of what constitutes beauty. >
Wanuri Kahiu talks Rafiki and being a reluctant activist

Design Frontiers • 1 Mar 19

"I am truly a creative. I start from a creative space and not from an activist space. I am like the most reluctant activist you will ever meet." >
Freyja Sewell talks tech, meditation and design for the mind

Next Generation • 28 Feb 19

We spoke to the Global Graduate before Design Indaba 2019 about making mindfulness visible. >

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