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#DI Speaker Bjarke Ingels’ O-Tower Combines Architectural Prowess and Cutting-Edge Sustainability

Design News > Architecture & Interiors

This future landmark by BIG (Bjarke Ingels Group) embodies design elegance and innovative technology. >

14 Jun 21
South African Firm Counterspace’s Much-Anticipated Serpentine Pavilion Finally Opens to the Public

Design News > African Design / Architecture & Interiors

Postponed to 2021, Counterspace’s 2020 Serpentine Pavilion celebrates places of meeting. >

14 Jun 21
Get design’s latest: Louvre’s 1st female leader, PoAD opens, & Heatherwick floats Little Island…

Design News > African Design / Architecture & Interiors / Design Thinking / Urban & Landscape Design

Innovation, engagement, and leadership are our watchwords this week. >

10 Jun 21
Souped Up Salone – Milano’s Innovative Response to a Year without its Furniture Fair

Design News > Architecture & Interiors / Product Design / Urban & Landscape Design

Salone del Mobile announces the ‘Supersalone’ for September 2021. >

7 Jun 21
All the news from Biennale Architettura, NIROX, and more!

Design News > African Design / Architecture & Interiors / Art & Photography / Urban & Landscape Design

A Better Built Environment >

7 Jun 21
#DI Speaker Thomas Heatherwick Creates Two Acres of Public Park above New York’s Hudson River

Design News > Architecture & Interiors / Interaction Design / Urban & Landscape Design

Little Island is an innovative space encouraging biodiversity, performance and public engagement >

7 Jun 21
#DI Global Graduate Ini Archibong Launches Travelling Pavilion at London Design Biennale, Directed by #DI Speaker Es Devlin

Design News > African Design / Architecture & Interiors

Pavilion of the African Diaspora is a travelling installation in three phases. >

7 Jun 21
Curating a New Future – the Louvre gets its First Female Leader in 228 Years

Design News > Art & Photography

Laurence des Cars, new director of the Louvre, plans to take it into a new era. >

7 Jun 21
Designer Agnieszka Białek’s Enclaves on Vistula River is a Peaceful but Engaging Alternative to WFH

Design News > Design Activism / Design Thinking / Interaction Design / Urban & Landscape Design

Organically inspired, but using high-tech techniques, Enclaves is a new co-working design. >

31 May 21
In its 17th iteration, the Venice Architecture Biennale Includes 112 Participants from Around the Globe

Design News > Architecture & Interiors

Building a better world – the Biennale Architettura answers, ‘how will we live together?’ >

31 May 21
#DI Alumni to Bring the Mother City to Life on Inaugural Cape Town Design Trail

Design News > African Design / Architecture & Interiors / Craft / Product Design

The Cape Town Design Trail lays out a route of the city’s best and brightest. >

31 May 21
Every day is Africa Day

Design News > African Design / Architecture & Interiors / Craft / Design Activism / Design Thinking / Fashion & Jewellery Design

Africa’s Standout Creatives Highlight the Continent’s Creativity >

26 May 21
The Handmade's Tale

Design News > African Design / Craft / Fashion & Jewellery Design

Honouring the beauty of the handmade. >

26 May 21
Nendo’s Oki Sato’s N02 Chair Embodies the Future-Forward Ethos of Fritz Hansen

Design News > Design Activism / Product Design

A “Japandi” triumph, the Fritz Hansen N02 is made of recycled household waste. >

24 May 21
#DI Speaker Hanif Kara’s Latest London Project, The Tide

Design News > Architecture & Interiors / Urban & Landscape Design

The Tide, a feat of engineering, architecture, and art, transforms an industrial area. >

24 May 21
CAKE Electric Motorcycles joins Forces with Sustainability Partners to Produce an Anti-Poaching Bike

Design News > Design Activism / Product Design

Innovation and collaboration come together to combat poaching. >

24 May 21
EFFEKT Designs a Community where Trees and Houses Live in Harmony

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

A progressive Nature Village in Denmark proposes a new approach to housing. >

24 May 21
MBOISA-Nominee Igshaan Adams’ New Body of Work Maps the Histories of his Community

Design News > African Design / Art & Photography

Bridging past, present and future, Igshaan Adams weaves narratives into his Veld Wen show. >

17 May 21
With 19 Chairs, Art and Charity Collide in a Celebration of Seating by a Range of #DI Speakers

Design News > Design Activism / Product Design

19 Chairs challenges design stars to create one-of-a-kind custom chairs for COVID-19 charity auction. >

17 May 21
Former Design Indaba Emerging Creative Andile Dyalvane Mounts 2nd Ceramics Solo Show in New York

Design News > African Design / Craft

Ceramicist Andile Dyalvane’s iThongo communes with the ancestors via symbolic seating. >

17 May 21
Art Beyond Boundaries

Design News > African Design / Art & Photography

These Young Artists are Drawing on Myriad Tools to Make Magic. . >

13 May 21
Graphic Content Ahead!

Design News > African Design / Graphic Design & Illustration

Designing for Life. >

13 May 21
A Symbiotic Work in Partnership with Biology, #DI Speaker Olafur Eliasson’s Life lets Nature Take its Course

Design News > Art & Photography

Showing at Fondation Beyeler, Olafur Eliasson’s new installation dissolves the boundaries between nature and art. >

13 May 21
Communicating with the Ancestors: Former Design Indaba Emerging Creative and MBOISA Nominee Thebe Magugu Draws on African Spirituality for his Alchemy AW21 Collection

Design Frontiers > African Design / Fashion & Jewellery Design

Acclaimed fashion designer Thebe Magugu’s AW21 garments, campaign and short film explore African spirituality and global textile traditions. >

7 May 21

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