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Morag Myerscough turns concrete jungles into spaces of belonging
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Urban & Landscape Design
The artist talks us through her giant centrepiece for Design Indaba Festival 2018, Embrace The Unknown.
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5 Mar 18
Meet the women who are leading by design
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Design Thinking
Design Indaba 2018 had the biggest contingent of women speakers and this is what they had to say.
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2 Mar 18
9 Design Indaba speakers that told us more about the future of architecture
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Architecture & Interiors
How can the built world be improved? Take a look at the different approaches to architecture innovation presented by our speakers this year.
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1 Mar 18
Sarah Waiswa explores the persecution of those with albinism
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Art & Photography
Called Stranger In a Familiar Land, her photo series addresses the treatment of those with the condition in Africa.
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1 Mar 18
Campbell Addy is disrupting the homogeneity of stock photography
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Art & Photography
The photographer’s partnership with Getty Images is diversifying their imagery.
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28 Feb 18
Hyphen Labs is using VR to create safe spaces for women of colour
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Interaction Design
This VR project began when Ashley Baccus-Clark realised that there is no sunscreen that caters to her skin tone.
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28 Feb 18
On prioritising walking as a way to design cities differently
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Urban & Landscape Design
“Designing walkable cities enables us to start with the street – the essence of the city.”
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27 Feb 18
In the Shadow of the Pyramids explores memory and identity in Egypt
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African Design
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Art & Photography
A long-term personal look at how the everyday citizens of Egypt and how things have changed in years since the Arab Spring.
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27 Feb 18
Es Devlin on creating visual voices for stars like Kanye West, Beyonce and Adele
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Music & Sound Design
Devlin shared never before seen sketches with the Design Indaba audience and gave a deeper insight into her process.
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26 Feb 18
Best moments of the final day of Design Indaba Conference 2018
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Design Thinking
And that's a wrap! Take a look at our speakers' most poignant messages delivered the last day of conference.
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23 Feb 18
Hugh Masekela Gallery launched at the finale of Design Indaba Festival 2018
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African Design
Design Indaba and the Zeitz MOCAA honoured the late legend in a stunning tribute on the Conference stage.
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23 Feb 18
Best Moments of Day 2 of Design Indaba Conference 2018
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Take a look at our speakers' most poignant messages delivered on stage at this year's Conference line-up.
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23 Feb 18
Peter Veenstra unveils Dome of Plants project for Cape Town
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Architecture & Interiors
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Urban & Landscape Design
Centrally positioned on Luthuli Plaza, a green Dome of Plants will offer an inviting garden-like space for local urban events.
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22 Feb 18
Filmmaker Sunu Gonera opened Design Indaba 2018 with a moving talk on afrofuturism
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African Design
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Film & Animation
"I believe that afrofuturism perfectly merges the past and the present of African culture in order to birth a brighter future."
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21 Feb 18
Edel Rodriguez on protesting the Trump era through art
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Art & Photography
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Design Activism
The Cuban-born illustrator brings his Trump-era protest art to Design Indaba Conference 2018.
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21 Feb 18
Zach Lieberman combines fine art and code to create futuristic realities
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Interaction Design
The Design Indaba 2018 speaker is at the forefront of art and technology.
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19 Feb 18
Lebo Mashile premiered her theatre piece on Saartjie Baartman at Design Indaba 2018
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Art & Photography
She was joined on stage by Anne Masina to perform Saartjie vs. Venus, a play that boldly interrogated aspects of black feminine identity.
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19 Feb 18
From our archives: Dr William Mapham says designers are important to the future of healthcare
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Design Activism
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Design Thinking
During his 2018 Design Indaba talk he called on designers to get involved in making a change.
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19 Feb 18
Zaki Ibrahim on her new album, family and her approach to music
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Music & Sound Design
"We wanted to deliver an uncompromised album and build it from osmosis of our emotional and spiritual experience..."
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18 Feb 18
10 reasons not to miss this year's Design Indaba Festival of Creativity
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Architecture & Interiors
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Craft
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Design Activism
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Film & Animation
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Food Design
From our speakers, to food experiences, special movie screenings and an urban music festival, there is something for everyone!
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17 Feb 18
Thomas Heatherwick's Zeitz MOCAA wins Cultural Architecture Award
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Architecture & Interiors
ArchDaily has named this design a winner of the 2018 Building Of The Year Awards.
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16 Feb 18
Ethnographer extraordinaire Martha Cotton will speak at Design Indaba 2018
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Design Thinking
The Chicago-based design researcher is one of this year’s star speakers.
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16 Feb 18
Music nomad Alec Lomami talks cultural exchange on the African continent
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African Design
The rapper, producer and DJ was on the 2018 Nightscape at Design Indaba stage.
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16 Feb 18
Spanish artist Núria Farré on her hyper-realistic paintings as self-portraits
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Art & Photography
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Creative Economy
“Being realistic is not what interests me the most; it’s just my natural way to paint, something accidental.”
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16 Feb 18
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