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Thunkable turns passive consumers into proactive app developers
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18 Jan 19
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The tech lets people with no coding experience create apps, democratising an otherwise elite space.
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Art, dialogue and action to transform marginalised communities
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9 Jan 19
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The team at Colloqate wants to eliminate toxic government policies and Confederate infrastructure in the city of New Orleans.
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Nigerian fashion powerhouse Adebayo Oke-Lawal brings Orange Culture to Design Indaba 2019
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9 Jan 19
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Androgynous fashion isn’t new but it renews itself, and in doing so it continuously redefines culture, identity and gender politics.
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The world is changing and green material is at the forefront
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21 Dec 18
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We look a little deeper at the materials trend that led to tangible design solutions we found this year.
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Five killer Design Indaba Conference talks you should watch
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20 Dec 18
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From graphic designer Natasha Jen to architect Francis Kéré, here are our top 5 Design Indaba Conference talks.
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Creatives that shape cultural narratives
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19 Dec 18
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These Design Indaba 2019 speakers are using their wells of creativity to define culture in a myriad of magical ways.
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Should we engineer the climate? A social scientist and natural scientist discuss
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19 Dec 18
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This is an article from Head to Head, a series in which academics from different disciplines chew over current debates.
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Our top five trending stories of 2018
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17 Dec 18
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As 2018 comes to an end, we're highlighting stories that grabbed our readers' attention this year.
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Design Indaba 2019: Where business and design meet
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13 Dec 18
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The next Design Indaba Conference is set to tackle various topics across business and design.
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The 5 most searched designers in 2018
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12 Dec 18
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Spanning across diverse ages, nationalities and disciplines, these were the most searched Design Indaba speakers in 2018
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From scrap to robot: This unlikely creation is one man's livelihood
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12 Dec 18
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I’ve always been good with my hands, says South Africa's “Robot Man”.
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William Kentridge: the barbarity of the 'Great War' told through an African lens
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10 Dec 18
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Kentridge underlines the lunacy of the project in every part of the production – from ruined landscapes to caricatural imagery to ironic captions
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Smart Havens Africa uses human-centered business models to help the poor build homes
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6 Dec 18
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The company looks at developing green houses by promoting sustainable building and also tackling housing poverty.
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Mapping the complexity of access and ethics in Johannesburg
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4 Dec 18
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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
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The way we build homes is wrong, says Joe Gebbia, and here's how he wants to fix it
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30 Nov 18
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"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.”
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Putting service delivery in the hands of the people
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30 Nov 18
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Graduate designer Nicole Nomsa Moyo envisions a way to empower people to build for themselves.
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People, design and the identity of Maseru
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30 Nov 18
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“In addition to the identity of the citizens, cities are shaped by their historical, climatic and sociopolitical conditions.”
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Converting historical sites into modern architecture with John Pawson
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29 Nov 18
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Set to speak at Design Indaba 2019, architect and interior designer, John Pawson is known for his minimalist approach.
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The 2019 Design Indaba Emerging Creatives are here
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29 Nov 18
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Each year we select 50 up and coming South African creatives and each year they surprise and beguile us.
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Dave Hakkens on his mission to help people fight plastic waste worldwide
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20 Nov 18
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The designer behind the award-winning project, Precious Plastic will be back at Design Indaba to talk about his latest work.
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Demystifying design with the critically acclaimed Alice Rawsthorn
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19 Nov 18
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The author, columnist and world-renowned design critic will speak at Design Indaba Conference 2019.
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The Indian woman behind some of Hollywood's blockbuster set designs
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19 Nov 18
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Aashrita Kamath turned her love of narrative into a career.
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Drivelines is a building that does not conceal its true self
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16 Nov 18
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LOT-EK architect Ada Tolla says they wanted to design a building as honest as Joburg itself.
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Basic Income Cafe uses coffee as a metaphor for the flow of money
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15 Nov 18
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“Visitors are provoked to experience the underlying economic models first hand."
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