Talks | Design Indaba

What is the data behind #MeToo really telling us?

Talks > Design Thinking

In her research, graduate Ellie Frymire looks beyond the tweets to delve further into what people are really saying. >

16 Apr 19
Keenan Wyrobek on saving lives with drones

Talks > Craft / Creative Economy / Design Activism / Design Thinking / Industrial Design / Product Design

“Doctors shared with us their torment at losing patients they knew how to save. They knew the treatments. They just didn’t have the supplies.” >

15 Apr 19
Rodrigo Garcia Gonzalez on tackling the world’s problems with creativity

Talks > Craft / Creative Economy / Design Activism / Design Thinking / Food Design / Information Design / Product Design

Gonzalez shares his method to coming up with creative solutions to everyday problems. >

12 Apr 19
Yuri Suzuki on combining his passion for music and design

Talks > Craft / Creative Economy / Design Thinking / Music & Sound Design

The Japanese sound designer shares how he finds “order in the noise.” >

11 Apr 19
Tin&Ed on work that fosters togetherness and celebrating the unknown

Talks > Graphic Design & Illustration / Interaction Design / Music & Sound Design

“The unknown in our practice is the most fertile place, and we love the unknown." >

10 Apr 19
How ostrich feathers are uplifting Oudtshoorn's economy through design

Talks > African Design / Architecture & Interiors / Craft / Creative Economy / Design Activism / Design Thinking / Fashion & Jewellery Design / Industrial Design / Product Design

Pascale Theron's work looks at breathing life into the vulnerable ostrich farming industry in Oudtshoorn, South Africa. >

8 Apr 19
Dave Hakkens on tackling the planet's waste

Talks > Creative Economy / Design Activism / Design Thinking / Industrial Design / Product Design

“When I start something I like to start with a problem.” >

5 Apr 19
David Droga on why he is still optimistic about advertising

Talks > Creative Economy / Film & Animation

“Linear and logical people make the world go round, but it’s the creative people who make it worth living in." >

4 Apr 19
Wanuri Kahiu on using film to talk about Africans as joyful and radiant

Talks > Art & Photography / Creative Economy / Film & Animation

“I realised that there is more images and more stories of joy than there is of remorse,” Kahiu says of her search for African stories of joy. >

3 Apr 19
IKEA ÖVERALLT: In the designers' words

Talks > African Design / Architecture & Interiors / Product Design

At Design Indaba Conference 2019, the group of African designers share the motivations behind the products they dreamed up and realised. >

2 Apr 19
Designer Ini Archibong on merging myth and reality to create The Secret Garden

Talks > Craft / Product Design

The ECAL graduate spoke about overcoming a difficult time, his design process and the importance of fulfilling a higher purpose. >

25 Mar 19
Danish designer Johannes Torpe on the power of design to create universes

Talks > Architecture & Interiors / Craft / Creative Economy / Industrial Design

“To create a universe around our products we actually have to take it out into the hands of the people who have to use it." >

21 Jan 19
Zach Lieberman on using human gestures to bring his work to life

Talks > Art & Photography / Information Design / Interaction Design

The coder and artist speaks on his collaboration with Design Indaba and projects that have stayed close to him. >

27 Aug 18
Graphic designer Natasha Jen poses six questions for design thinkers

Talks > Graphic Design & Illustration

During her Design Indaba Conference talk she expands on her thinking since declaring: Design Thinking is Bullshit. >

21 Aug 18
Morag Myerscough on transforming spaces with colour and embracing the unknown

Talks > Graphic Design & Illustration

The London-based designer takes us through her work that’s added colour to hospitals, public spaces and more. >

20 Aug 18
Landscape architect Peter Veenstra on the importance of bringing nature into our cities

Talks > Architecture & Interiors

Veenstra, of LOLA Landscapes, talks us through three projects including the Dome of Plants, planned for the City of Cape Town. >

17 Aug 18
Lonny van Ryswyck on the importance of looking after our diminishing resources as designers

Talks > Design Thinking / Product Design

In her 2018 Design Indaba Conference talk she takes us through her projects including, A World of Sand, where people donated sand from all over the world. >

16 Aug 18
Martha Cotton on the growth and influence that design has on business

Talks > Design Thinking

“My clients have started to really look towards the way me and my design colleagues look at the world and solve problems." >

15 Aug 18
Graphic designer extraordinaire, Tony Brook, on his studio’s creative journey

Talks > Graphic Design & Illustration

The founder of Spin Studio shares his creative wisdom with the Design Indaba audience. >

13 Aug 18
Ensamble Studio on building flexible, stackable spaces and working with nature

Talks > Architecture & Interiors

"When we look at nature we want to learn from it, we want to build with it." >

7 Aug 18
Edel Rodriguez on childhood, nationalism and a nation on fire

Talks > Art & Photography / Design Activism

The Cuban-born illustrator was dubbed "America’s Illustrator-In-Chief" by Fast Company. >

6 Aug 18
When a natural disaster occurred in Chile, Alejandro Aravena and his team set out to rebuild the city

Talks > Architecture & Interiors / Urban & Landscape Design

The architect tackles the reconstruction of a city through public participation. >

9 Jul 18
What a cup of tea teaches us about the value of water

Talks > Architecture & Interiors / Design Activism

Shaakira Jassat's ThirTEA for One project highlights the hidden footprint in the lifecycle of the products we consume. >

26 Jun 18
The maker of Algiknit talks seaweed fashion and the next stage of biotech

Talks > Fashion & Jewellery Design

Aleksandra Gosiewski's work touches on sustainable ways to fix the disconnect within the fashion industry. >

20 Jun 18

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