Creative Work | Design Indaba

A massive eco-village with a utopian take on sustainable living

Design News > Architecture & Interiors / Design Activism

Agroecologist Amlankusum’s conceptual designs combines natural elements with controlled construction to create a 36-storey paradise. >

7 Mar 16
Global artists recreate monsters thought up by children

Design News > Art & Photography

The Monster Project facilitates art with children by reimagining their monsters. >

7 Mar 16
Wearable technology for the visually impaired

Design Frontiers > African Design / Product Design

Wearable technology from Cairo describes oncoming objects to its users >

4 Mar 16
Urban Farm Pod: A plant growing sphere in urban spaces

Design News > Design Activism / Urban & Landscape Design

Terreform ONE’s Plug-In-Ecology project brings vertical farming to urban spaces. >

4 Mar 16
The creative chef, Jasper Udink ten Cate releases his first cookbook

Design News > Food Design

The Creative Chef cookbook shows home cooks how to turn everyday meals into mind-blowing dining experiences. >

4 Mar 16
Shape-shifting textile cloud can change sound quality in a room

Product Spotlight > Interaction Design / Product Design

BLOOM is a knitted origami surface that can alter the ambient acoustics of public spaces. >

4 Mar 16
MFA’s #techstyle: Fashion that moves, interacts and adapts

Design Frontiers > Fashion & Jewellery Design / Interaction Design

The Museum of Fine Arts’ #techstyle exhibition takes a look at where fashion design is headed thanks to its relationship with technology. >

4 Mar 16
Saphon Energy creates new wind-harnessing technology

Design Frontiers > Creative Economy / Design Activism / Product Design

This Tunisian startup didn’t reinvent the wind turbine; instead, they created a new technology. >

3 Mar 16
Teledisko: The 60s nightlife experience in a phone booth

Design News > Design Thinking

Teledisko is a phone booth upcycled into the world’s smallest nightclub. >

3 Mar 16
Candyfloss characters in comical GIFs with a feminist touch

Design News > Graphic Design & Illustration

Inspired by Instagram artists, Swedish art director Sofia Hydman creates GIFs depicting chubby, confident girls. >

3 Mar 16
Award-winning architecture student Alfie Hope imagines a city floating on bamboo

Design News > Architecture & Interiors

Alfie Hope champions water-based urbanism with his proposal to grow floating land with bamboo. >

3 Mar 16
Six things you might not know about Airbnb and its co-founder Joe Gebbia

Design News > Creative Economy / Design Thinking

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. >

3 Mar 16
A garden that stretches across Africa

Design Frontiers > African Design / Creative Economy / Design Activism / Urban & Landscape Design

The Great Green Wall of Africa will be the biggest man-made marvel in the world once completed. >

3 Mar 16
Zami Life: A stool for smart sitting in an age of inactivity

Design News > Product Design

The Zami smart stool promotes healthy living through innovative furniture design. >

3 Mar 16
Free community skatepark in Ethiopia

Design Frontiers > Architecture & Interiors / Design Activism / Urban & Landscape Design

A non-profit organisation is building skateparks in rural areas around the globe. >

2 Mar 16
Miniature art scenes inspired by film

Design Frontiers > Craft / Product Design

This artist forgets about time when she creates her painstakingly detailed dioramas. >

2 Mar 16
Concept artist merges Maasai warriors with sci-fi tech

Design News > Art & Photography / Graphic Design & Illustration

Rodrigo Galdino imagines what it would look like if traditional Maasai warriors integrated alien tech into their culture. >

2 Mar 16
A moss wall that creates clean, green energy

Next Generation > Product Design

Graduate Elena Mitrofanova has designed a modular system that generates electricity from moss. >

2 Mar 16
NASA invites public to send art to space

Design News > Art & Photography / Design Thinking

NASA’s upcoming mission to a near-Earth asteroid will take with it artworks submitted by explorers from around the world. >

2 Mar 16
Nursery Fields Forever imagines a preschool where kids learn how to farm

Design News > Architecture & Interiors

Rome-based design team wins an architecture award for its new age urban farming school for children. >

2 Mar 16
Agriculture meets architecture in France's urban farm tower

Design News > Architecture & Interiors / Design Activism

Built like a staircase, ABF-lab's urban farming structure aims to raise awareness and encourage better living and social responsibility. >

1 Mar 16
Jaun van Wyk: Bringing the art back into architecture

Design Frontiers > Art & Photography / Urban & Landscape Design

Cape Town based architect Jaun van Wyk plans to restore architecture to an art form. >

1 Mar 16
3D printed braille maps for navigating interiors

Design News > Interaction Design

Rutgers University researchers hope their new braille maps will become a new standard feature in all public spaces. >

1 Mar 16
MIT researchers reveal world's thinnest solar cell

Design Frontiers > Design Thinking / Product Design

A team at MIT have created an ultra-thin solar cell that could open up new applications for solar power in the long term. >

1 Mar 16

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