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Osborne Macharia’s latest work highlights the unsung achievements of Kenya’s female freedom fighters

Creative Work • 30 Jan 17

The Kenyan social media favourite is back with a new photo series. >
Listen to Joe Gebbia talk about how he created Airbnb

Creative Work • 26 Jan 17

Talking on NPR's "How I Built This", Joe Gebbia – who is speaking at Design Indaba 2017 – reveals how a side hustle became the biggest hotel chain in the world. >
Lernert & Sander: Smells like Everything

Creative Work • 25 Jan 17

Artists and filmmakers Lernert & Sander create exquisitely detailed conceptual films. Subjects include the smell of everything and the sound effects of fashion. >
Dokter and Misses to create a "Weird Dream" at Design Indaba 2017

Creative Work • 20 Jan 17

Dokter and Misses are planning to bring their work to life at Design Indaba Conference 2017 in a multi-sensory, multi-disciplinary performance piece. >
Sleeping with Snøhetta under the Scandinavian sky

Creative Work • 18 Jan 17

Snøhetta explores the evolving relationship between handicraft and digital technology. Architect and co-founder Kjetil Thorsen will speak at Design Indaba 2017. >
Man vs machine: The power of human computation

Creative Work • 16 Jan 17

Despite rumours that AI will take over the world, there's still a lot machines can’t do without man. At Design Indaba 2017, tech genius Luis von Ahn shows why. >
How can we help you feel data?

Creative Work • 12 Jan 17

At Design Indaba 2017 information designer Giorgia Lupi will collaborate with guitarist Kaki King on an unimaginable journey through data and the senses. >
Amna Elshandaweely launches her new collection at Design Indaba

Creative Work • 10 Jan 17

“Through design and through art we are the people that can change the world.” >
Clever design: Little Sun original

Design Indaba News • 20 Dec 16

Designed by an artist and an engineer, the Little Sun Original solar lamp is illuminating lives around the world. >
Naresh Ramchandani: The power and grace of words

Interviews • Duration: 00:03:23 • 13 Dec 16

Naresh Ramchandani is a master wordsmith. Here, we talk to him about some of the creative campaigns he has been involved with over the years. >
A love letter to words with Naresh Ramchandani

Conference Talks • Duration: 00:35:38 • 12 Dec 16

Writer and word-lover Naresh Ramchandani shares his eight favourite words at Design Indaba Conference 2016. >
Early Bird tickets for Design Indaba 2017 are sold out!

Design Indaba News • 9 Dec 16

Full-price Conference and Simulcast ticket sales are now open. >
This is Olafur Eliasson. We'll let him introduce himself

Creative Work • Duration: 00:02:11 • 9 Dec 16

Icelandic-Danish artist Olafur Eliasson created the vast, indoor sun at the Tate in London, made rivers run green and made a waterfall flow upwards. >
Assemble: The DIY architecture collective

Interviews • Duration: 00:01:55 • 5 Dec 16

London-based collective Assemble have members with diverse skills and take on practical projects from furniture to civic spaces and public theatre. >
How to make a city more malleable with Turner Prize winners Assemble

Conference Talks • Duration: 00:32:58 • 5 Dec 16

Paloma Strelitz and James Binning, two members of the Turner Prize-winning collective Assemble, talk about how to make a city a playground of possibilities. >
Clara Mar Hernández López on sustainable solutions for architecture

Conference Talks • Duration: 00:09:04 • 2 Dec 16

The Spanish architect talks adaptive architecture in a fast-paced world. >
Clara Mar Hernández López talks adapting architecture to better suit society’s needs

Interviews • Duration: 00:02:23 • 2 Dec 16

We need to look at all the possibilities, says the Spanish architect. >
Interactions between the body and space with FOS

Conference Talks • Duration: 00:32:25 • 30 Nov 16

Danish artist-cum-designer Thomas Poulsen, also known as FOS, plays with the interactions between the human body and the space it occupies. >
Van Eijk & Van Der Lubbe are changing space with influential design

Interviews • Duration: 00:02:09 • 29 Nov 16

Dutch design duo Miriam van der Lubbe and Niels van Eijk talk us through some of their most influential projects. >
Designing for the bigger picture with Van Eijk & Van der Lubbe

Conference Talks • Duration: 00:35:31 • 22 Nov 16

It’s all a matter of perception. >
Fun over function with product designer Jaime Hayón

Conference Talks • Duration: 00:34:08 • 18 Nov 16

Whimsical Spanish designer Jaime Hayón explores materials and storytelling through products he creates with a childlike sense of fun. >
Jaime Hayón: Curiosity is the designer's greatest tool

Interviews • Duration: 00:03:54 • 18 Nov 16

Curiosity is the designer's third eye, says quirky Spanish product designer Jaime Hayón. Without it there is no creativity. >
Naama Schendar: Design to rethink trauma

Interviews • Duration: 00:02:20 • 15 Nov 16

The way that the world deals with trauma is not progressive enough, says Israeli-born multidisciplinary designer Naama Schendar. >
Trauma and the neuroplasticity of the human brain with Naama Schendar

Conference Talks • Duration: 00:10:00 • 15 Nov 16

Global Graduate Naama Schendar explores identity and trauma through a design project that encourages enhanced empathy. >

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