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Plastic Tapestries

Design News • 12 Jun 26 • Sponsored Content

Moffat Takadiwa transforms Zimbabwe’s plastic waste into powerful tapestries >
Conflict Ecology

Design News • 11 Jun 26 • Sponsored Content

The Geospatial research studio who is using radar technology to reveal the hidden impact of conflict. >
Joy through resistance

Design News • 11 Jun 26 • Sponsored Content

Yinka Ilori’s latest exhibition showcases his deeper roots of joy >
Sound and Light Soother

Design News • 5 Jun 26 • Sponsored Content

Motorola’s S1 Soother Brings Emotional Design to the Nursery >
A Bracelet That Translates Sign Language

Design News • 5 Jun 26 • Sponsored Content

Nura’s bracelet design wins the 2026 Rimowa Design Prize >
Wave Energy

Design News • 28 May 26 • Sponsored Content

Spanish engineering company IDOM launches MARMOK-A-5, a floating wave energy converter. >
Freeway Park

Design News • 28 May 26 • Sponsored Content

Designed by HKS and SWA, Halperin Park is a “cap park” built over a 14 lane freeway to repair social fabric. >
As Seen Below

Design News • 21 May 26 • Sponsored Content

James Turrell’s new Skyspace Opens at ARoS in June 2026 >
Floating Futures

Design News • 19 May 26 • Sponsored Content

Studio Malu explores a new relationship between food, climate and territory >
Spiritual District

Design News • 15 May 26 • Sponsored Content

Stefano Boeri Architetti, the project reimagines the monastery as a civic space. >
Microplastic capturing Algae

Design News • 15 May 26 • Sponsored Content

Scientists at the University of Missouri have developed a genetically engineered algae capable of removing microplastics from polluted water. >
Communal Spirit

Design News • 8 May 26 • Sponsored Content

Kéré Architecture’s first built work in South America >
Climate Tech Map

Design News • 8 May 26 • Sponsored Content

The new Climate Tech Map by Pentagram, led by Giorgia Lupi, >
Paper Log

Design News • 24 Apr 26 • Sponsored Content

Issey Miyake’s experimental paper furniture >
Playrise

Design News • 24 Apr 26 • Sponsored Content

Designing Play for Displaced Children >
Make-roscope

Design News • 16 Apr 26 • Sponsored Content

A keychain microscope aiming to democratise access to STEM education. >
DuoBell by Škoda

Design News • 14 Apr 26 • Sponsored Content

Redesigning a Century-Old Object for a New Urban Reality. >
Disappearing Sounds

Design News • 9 Apr 26 • Sponsored Content

Designer and Design Indaba Alumnus Olafur Elisasson unveils A Symphony of Disappearing Sounds for the Great Salt Lake City >
Body Blocks

Design News • 8 Apr 26 • Sponsored Content

Davina Atallah’s House Humbaba Wooden playset for inclusive play >
Wasteland Nomad

Design News • 27 Mar 26 • Sponsored Content

Designer Yizhuo Guo’s Wasteland Nomad project aids ecological restoration >
Untitled

Design News • 27 Mar 26 • Sponsored Content

A creative app for music production >
Blue Highways

Design News • 20 Mar 26 • Sponsored Content

New York City has launched Blue Highways, an initiative to rethink urban freight by using waterways to move goods more efficiently. >
Cover Game On

Design News • 20 Mar 26 • Sponsored Content

Red Bull’s GamePop have released a playable magazine cover for the publication’s latest issue. >
Blooming Temple

Design News • 13 Mar 26 • Sponsored Content

Artist James Gwertzman designs ‘Temple of Moon’, Burning Man 2026’s Pavilion >

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From the Archives

Design for Human Rights

Design News • 13 Mar 23

In honour of Human Rights Day on 21 March, we take a look at human-centred innovations from South Africa. >
To the world

Q&A • 13 Mar 23

Sumayya Vally is shaping and shifting architectural discourses for the future. >
Something fishy

Design News • 13 Mar 23

This floating pavilion, which resembles a fish eye, is dedicated to sustainable fishing. >
Full of beans

Design Frontiers • 13 Mar 23

Anish Kapoor’s latest sculpture lies ‘squashed’ under a high-rise building. >