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Sou Fujimoto: The infinite possibilities of open field architecture

Interviews • Duration: 00:06:02 • 13 Jun 16

Japanese architect Sou Fujimoto talks about how architecture should create spaces for people to behave as they would like to. >
Dominic Wilcox on thinking your way out of the normal

Conference Talks • Duration: 00:30:48 • 7 Jun 16

Here's a taster from the whimsical, stirring talk from British product designer Dominic Wilcox on how to hunt for new ideas in the everyday. >
Benjamin Hubert: Design with meaning

Interviews • Duration: 00:02:07 • 2 Jun 16

Industrial designer Benjamin Hubert talks about how designers have a responsibility to solve the right kind of problems. >
Pia Nyakairu: Designing a device to improve remote care for cancer patients

Interviews • Duration: 00:02:50 • 26 May 16

Ugandan-born industrial design graduate Pia Nyakairu has designed a device that helps physiotherapists and doctors offer distance care to cancer patients. >
Studio [D] Tale: Design for social impact in emerging economies

Interviews • Duration: 00:04:18 • 25 May 16

We talk to cross-continental architecture and design studio Studio [D] Tale about innovation in the everyday, especially in emerging economies. >
Christian Benimana: Architects don’t have to be local to think local

Interviews • Duration: 00:04:09 • 24 May 16

Rwandan architect Christian Benimana believes that the built environment should catalyse positive systemic change. >
Studio [D] Tale on design activism and innovation within existing systems

Conference Talks • Duration: 00:21:57 • 23 May 16

Social impact designers Studio [D] Tale talk about innovating within informal economies and interventions in existing, sometimes backward, systems. >
When world-famous chef Elena Arzak visits South African forager Kobus van der Merwe

Creative Work • 20 May 16

While award-winning chef Elena Arzak was in SA to present at the Design Indaba Conference, she visited the Paternoster-based forager chef Kobus van de Merwe. >
Tony Gum on nourishing and celebrating your personal art

Conference Talks • Duration: 00:08:23 • 18 May 16

Still an undergraduate, Tony Gum calls herself an “artist in learning” and talks about how she is still learning to celebrate and understand her art. >
Pia Nyakairu on products that help form connections

Conference Talks • Duration: 00:06:41 • 16 May 16

Ugandan industrial designer Pia Nyakairu shares her work on products that aid connection as part of Design Indaba’s Global Graduates programme. >
Rich Mnisi on building a fresh fashion brand in South Africa

Conference Talks • Duration: 00:06:29 • 13 May 16

South African designer Rich Mnisi shares his creative journey (catwalk included) as part of the Global Graduates selection at Design Indaba Conference 2016. >
Stevo Dirnberger & Chanel Cartell: Find inspiration in the unfamiliar

Interviews • Duration: 00:05:01 • 20 Apr 16

Inspired by DI speaker Stefan Sagmeister to quit their advertising jobs and take a sabbatical, Stevo and Chanel tell us about what they’ve learnt on the road. >
The Venus Bushfires on storytelling and bridging the middle

Conference Talks • Duration: 00:14:59 • 11 Mar 16

Helen Isibor-Epega, who performs as The Venus Bushfires, is an optimist, dreamer and musical storyteller who uses her art to build bridges across cultures. >
Trailer: The Venus Bushfires on storytelling and bridging the middle

Conference Talks • Duration: 00:01:12 • 11 Mar 16

Helen Isibor-Epega, who performs as The Venus Bushfires, is an optimist, dreamer and musical storyteller who uses her art to build bridges across cultures. >
The Venus Bushfires: Two worlds collide in a Pidgin English opera

Interviews • Duration: 00:04:46 • 10 Mar 16

Nigerian-born Helen Isibor-Epega, otherwise known as The Venus Bushfires, is a singer-songwriter who explains why she likes to tick the "other" box. >
Six things you might not know about Airbnb and its co-founder Joe Gebbia

Creative Work • 3 Mar 16

Airbnb's co-founder Joe Gebbia will be speaking at Design Indaba 2017. Here are some things you might not know about this peer-to-peer home-rental start up. >
The best font to use to write (almost) anything

Interviews • 25 Feb 16

Michael Bierut, legendary US graphic designer, design critic and educator shares some font recommendations and reveals how he really feels about emojis. >
Day three of Design Indaba 2016 – and that's a wrap!

Creative Work • 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

Creative Work • 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

Design Indaba 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

Creative Work • 19 Feb 16

Israeli-born multidisciplinary artist Naama Schendar is exploring individuality and indentity through experiments with trauma and empathy. >
Day two of Design Indaba Conference 2016

Creative Work • 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

Creative Work • 18 Feb 16

Twins Cartoon release their comic magazine Garage in English for the first time at Design Indaba Conference. >
Francois Knoetze's mythical trash creatures reveal our terrible treatment of waste

Creative Work • 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. >

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