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Chillies ward off elephants

Design News • 16 Nov 11

In rural parts of Africa, chillies are being used to keep elephants off cultivated land while also providing an income for the subsistence farmers. >
Food fight: Dan Ariely

Design News • 15 Nov 11

Behavioural economist Dan Ariely shows that we can all design our eating habits if we understand our environment. >
Food fight: Amy Franceschini

Design News • 15 Nov 11

“Food must not be a weapon”, Amy Franceschini calls on Via Campesina’s seven principles of food sovereignty. >
Food fight: Jesper Johansson

Design News • 15 Nov 11

Jesper Johansson wonders if we can somehow be excited about certain foods running out, forcing us to try something new. >
Food fight: Marcel Dicke

Design News • 15 Nov 11

Entomologist Marcel Dicke promotes the idea that instead of mammals, we should be eating insects. >
Food fight: Christien Meindertsma

Design News • 15 Nov 11

Knowing what we eat is important for Dutch product designer Christien Meindertsma. >
Food fight: Shin-ichi Takemura

Design News • 15 Nov 11

Shin-ichi Takemura says we should rather be talking about being “creative” than “sustainable" in terms of the environment. >
Food fight: Peter Reinhart

Design News • 15 Nov 11

Acclaimed American baker and teacher, Peter Reinhart gives his opinion about whether foodies are gluttons. >
Food fight: Laetitia Wolff

Design News • 15 Nov 11

Laetitia Wolff believes that technology, synthetic food and GM should not be written off. >
Food fight: Sita Bhaumik

Design News • 15 Nov 11

It boggles artist Sita Bhaumik’s mind that contemporary famines are manmade. >
Food fight: Anna Maria Orru

Design News • 15 Nov 11

Anna Maria Orru imagines a resilient food culture inspired by nature’s way of organising itself. >
Food fight: Anne Mieke Eggenkamp

Design News • 15 Nov 11

Design Academy Eindhoven’s Anne Mieke Eggenkamp believes we don’t eat insects because of what it sounds like. >
Food fight: Frank Tjepkema

Design News • 15 Nov 11

Product designer Frank Tjepkema believes that as a consumer, you are responsible for the way the food you eat is produced. >
Food fight: Janina Loeve

Design News • 15 Nov 11

Janina Loeve believes that food is more significant to our social life and identity than health. >
Food fight: Kim O’Donnel

Design News • 15 Nov 11

Author of The Meat Lover’s Meatless Cookbook, Kim O’Donnel thinks we should all be making more time to cook. >
Food fight: Bruce Nussbaum

Design News • 15 Nov 11

Designomics advocate Bruce Nussbaum sees food as the heart of cutting-edge design. >
Food fight: Han Feng

Design News • 15 Nov 11

Fashion designer Han Feng would like to design a food culture that blends all cultures in one. >
Food fight: Claire Renard

Design News • 15 Nov 11

Claire Renard of 5.5 designers argues that we’re constantly changing our minds about food. >
Food fight: John Thackara

Design News • 15 Nov 11

John Thackara argues that the biggest problem with the current food system is too much innovation. >
Food fight: Vince Frost

Design News • 15 Nov 11

If we all just ate the amount we were meant to at meals, there will be less waste, admonishes Vince Frost. >
Food fight: Dan Barber

Design News • 15 Nov 11

Chef Dan Barber emphasises that we need a whole new design for the way we grow our food. >
Food fight: Gidon Eshel

Design News • 15 Nov 11

Number cruncher Gidon Eshel says sustainable is not always sustainable – especially beef. >
Food fight: Daljit Singh

Design News • 15 Nov 11

Food won’t create world peace while religion and football are in the way, says Daljit Singh. >
Food fight: Barton Seaver

Design News • 15 Nov 11

Chef and seafood activist Barton Seaver says it’s not enough to eat and do no harm. >

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Hollywood calling

Q&A • 16 Aug 22

This Design Indaba Emerging Creative for 2022 is a content creator and fitness influencer with a penchant for filmmaking >
Community living

Design News • 16 Aug 22

Mumbai-based architectural and design firm Community Design Agency is working together with community members to revitalise the Sanjaynagar slum >
Star quality

Design News • 16 Aug 22

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Mr Sandman

Design News • 16 Aug 22

Recent graduate Archie Read designed an off-grid, ‘flushable’ toilet that aims to provide a dignified solution to unsafe sanitary conditions >