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Art, dialogue and action to transform marginalised communities

Design News > Architecture & Interiors / Design Activism / Design Thinking

The team at Colloqate wants to eliminate toxic government policies and Confederate infrastructure in the city of New Orleans. >

9 Jan 19
Nigerian fashion powerhouse Adebayo Oke-Lawal brings Orange Culture to Design Indaba 2019

Design News > African Design / Fashion & Jewellery Design

Androgynous fashion isn’t new but it renews itself, and in doing so it continuously redefines culture, identity and gender politics. >

9 Jan 19
How African cities can harness green technologies for growth and jobs

Design Frontiers > African Design / Design Activism

The value of green technologies and systems is that they are largely decentralised or semi-decentralised. >

4 Jan 19
An easy low-cost way to deliver medicine in rural areas

Next Generation > Design Activism / Industrial Design / Product Design

Industrial design student Gwen Gage wants to make medication delivery more accessible in under-developed regions. >

3 Jan 19
The world is changing and green material is at the forefront

Design News > Design Activism / Design Thinking

We look a little deeper at the materials trend that led to tangible design solutions we found this year. >

21 Dec 18
Five killer Design Indaba Conference talks you should watch

Design News > African Design / Architecture & Interiors / Design Thinking / Graphic Design & Illustration / Product Design

From graphic designer Natasha Jen to architect Francis Kéré, here are our top 5 Design Indaba Conference talks. >

20 Dec 18
Creatives that shape cultural narratives

Design News > Craft / Design Activism / Fashion & Jewellery Design / Film & Animation

These Design Indaba 2019 speakers are using their wells of creativity to define culture in a myriad of magical ways. >

19 Dec 18
Should we engineer the climate? A social scientist and natural scientist discuss

Design News > Design Activism

This is an article from Head to Head, a series in which academics from different disciplines chew over current debates. >

19 Dec 18
5 Innovations that broke the mould in 2018

Design Frontiers > Design Activism / Design Thinking

Pioneers in their fields, these innovations were made to provide new solutions to old problems. >

18 Dec 18
Our top five trending stories of 2018

Design News > Architecture & Interiors / Graphic Design & Illustration

As 2018 comes to an end, we're highlighting stories that grabbed our readers' attention this year. >

17 Dec 18
The Socio-Technical City combats the key challenges of our future cities

Design Frontiers > Architecture & Interiors / Design Thinking

UNStudio designs a speculative cityscape for The Hague, aimed to address rapid urban growth and sustainability. >

14 Dec 18
Oliber helps people with partial or total atrophy of the hands

Next Generation > Design Activism / Product Design

Chilean design graduate Bárbara López designed a low-cost tool to give new hands to those in need. >

14 Dec 18
Design Indaba 2019: Where business and design meet

Design News > Creative Economy / Graphic Design & Illustration / Information Design / Product Design

The next Design Indaba Conference is set to tackle various topics across business and design. >

13 Dec 18
The 5 most searched designers in 2018

Design News > Design Activism / Design Thinking

Spanning across diverse ages, nationalities and disciplines, these were the most searched Design Indaba speakers in 2018 >

12 Dec 18
From scrap to robot: This unlikely creation is one man's livelihood

Design News > African Design / Craft

I’ve always been good with my hands, says South Africa's “Robot Man”. >

12 Dec 18
William Kentridge: the barbarity of the 'Great War' told through an African lens

Design News > Design Thinking

Kentridge underlines the lunacy of the project in every part of the production – from ruined landscapes to caricatural imagery to ironic captions >

10 Dec 18
Could self-examination rape kits curb sexual violence in Kenya?

Design Frontiers > Design Activism

A team of researchers are developing a tool much like a tampon that rape survivors can apply themselves after an attack. >

7 Dec 18
Smart Havens Africa uses human-centered business models to help the poor build homes

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

The company looks at developing green houses by promoting sustainable building and also tackling housing poverty. >

6 Dec 18
Design Indaba 2019 presents: Architecture driven by social responsibility

Design Frontiers > Architecture & Interiors

From Mariam Kamara to Dong Ping-Wong, the 2019 Design Indaba Conference will host a list of renowned architects. >

5 Dec 18
If the Moon made music, how would it sound?

Design Frontiers > Music & Sound Design

University of Iceland graduate Halldór Eldjárn uses images and algorithms to create otherworldly tracks at a click of a button. >

5 Dec 18
Mapping the complexity of access and ethics in Johannesburg

Design News > African Design / Urban & Landscape Design

We fail to think of residents, particularly if they happen to be poor, as full and complex human beings whose passions and needs morph over time >

4 Dec 18
The way we build homes is wrong, says Joe Gebbia, and here's how he wants to fix it

Design News > Architecture & Interiors / Design Activism

"In order to meet the demands of the future, whether it be climate displacement or rural-urban migration, the home needs to evolve, to think forward.” >

30 Nov 18
Putting service delivery in the hands of the people

Design News > African Design / Architecture & Interiors / Design Activism

Graduate designer Nicole Nomsa Moyo envisions a way to empower people to build for themselves. >

30 Nov 18
People, design and the identity of Maseru

Design News > African Design / Architecture & Interiors

“In addition to the identity of the citizens, cities are shaped by their historical, climatic and sociopolitical conditions.” >

30 Nov 18

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