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

Design News • 6 Dec 18 • Sponsored Content

The company looks at developing green houses by promoting sustainable building and also tackling housing poverty. >
Mapping the complexity of access and ethics in Johannesburg

Design News • 4 Dec 18 • Sponsored Content

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

Design News • 30 Nov 18 • Sponsored Content

"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.” >
Putting service delivery in the hands of the people

Design News • 30 Nov 18 • Sponsored Content

Graduate designer Nicole Nomsa Moyo envisions a way to empower people to build for themselves. >
People, design and the identity of Maseru

Design News • 30 Nov 18 • Sponsored Content

“In addition to the identity of the citizens, cities are shaped by their historical, climatic and sociopolitical conditions.” >
Converting historical sites into modern architecture with John Pawson

Design News • 29 Nov 18 • Sponsored Content

Set to speak at Design Indaba 2019, architect and interior designer, John Pawson is known for his minimalist approach. >
The 2019 Design Indaba Emerging Creatives are here

Design News • 29 Nov 18 • Sponsored Content

Each year we select 50 up and coming South African creatives and each year they surprise and beguile us. >
Dave Hakkens on his mission to help people fight plastic waste worldwide

Design News • 20 Nov 18 • Sponsored Content

The designer behind the award-winning project, Precious Plastic will be back at Design Indaba to talk about his latest work. >
Demystifying design with the critically acclaimed Alice Rawsthorn

Design News • 19 Nov 18 • Sponsored Content

The author, columnist and world-renowned design critic will speak at Design Indaba Conference 2019. >
The Indian woman behind some of Hollywood's blockbuster set designs

Design News • 19 Nov 18 • Sponsored Content

Aashrita Kamath turned her love of narrative into a career. >
Drivelines is a building that does not conceal its true self

Design News • 16 Nov 18 • Sponsored Content

LOT-EK architect Ada Tolla says they wanted to design a building as honest as Joburg itself. >
Basic Income Cafe uses coffee as a metaphor for the flow of money

Design News • Duration: 00:08:45 • 15 Nov 18 • Sponsored Content

“Visitors are provoked to experience the underlying economic models first hand." >
How urban planning can help us cope with climate change

Design News • 13 Nov 18 • Sponsored Content

The results of this recent research could help city planners build our future cities better. >
Nigerian writer Ziki Nelson on his upcoming comic book featuring 15 African artists

Design News • 13 Nov 18 • Sponsored Content

"From our perspective, there's no point publishing a Spiderman-esque superhero story. The DCs and the Marvels of this world already do that so well.” >
A non-invasive tool for spinal correction

Design News • 8 Nov 18 • Sponsored Content

Correcting a spinal deformity early is key to avoiding a more severe form of scoliosis in adulthood . >
Playful sonic sculptures that reverberate across the design world

Design News • 5 Nov 18 • Sponsored Content

Pentagram London’s newly appointed partner, Yuri Suzuki, will be speaking at Design Indaba Conference 2019. >
Low-cost medical device detects pneumonia quickly and effectively

Design News • 5 Nov 18 • Sponsored Content

This device, called Kulinda, could counteract the devastating effects of pneumonia in developing countries. >
Filtration system gives you clean water wherever you are

Design News • 2 Nov 18 • Sponsored Content

Over 800 million people in the world don't have access to clean drinking water, but this new filtration system could solve that. >
Where would the South African comedy scene be without Kagiso Lediga?

Design News • 31 Oct 18 • Sponsored Content

The filmmaker, actor and comedian behind some of the country's most loved comedy shows and films will speak at Design Indaba Conference 2019. >
Iran's hidden history now told by postage stamps

Design News • 29 Oct 18 • Sponsored Content

Iran had a history before the 1979 Islamic Revolution, and a design student is using stamps to highlight this. >
Futurist Alexa Clay on why Silicon Valley should focus on goodness and humanity

Design News • 25 Oct 18 • Sponsored Content

She says there needs to be more to tech than just building another app to get rich. >
Night Loo offers refugee women a safer toilet option

Design News • 24 Oct 18 • Sponsored Content

Going to the toilet becomes a serious problem for refugee women when they face attack on their way to the bathroom. >
Tik-Tik helps make freedom of movement easier for the visually impaired

Design News • 23 Oct 18 • Sponsored Content

The blind designer Simon Dogger who spoke at this year's Design Indaba tells us about his latest project. >
Award-winning Brazilian designer to speak on his 30-year journey

Design News • 22 Oct 18 • Sponsored Content

The award-winning designer, Kiko Farkas will speak at the Design Indaba Conference 2019 on his remarkable career. >

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Eye on the prize

Design News • 22 May 22

Mariam Issoufou Kamara, founder of the award-winning Atelier Masōmī, will lead the design of a new museum and cultural centre – Bët-bi – in southwestern Senegal >
Stylin’

Q&A • 22 May 22

Riyaadh Ismail’s sustainable, gender-neutral luxury streetwear redefines Johannesburg street culture >
Story of my life

Q&A • 16 May 22

Njabulo Maseko is on a mission to open doors for the youth to express the power of their inner creativity >
Walking, talking chair

Design News • 16 May 22

A Lithuanian exhibition is inviting heart-to-hearts between historical furniture items and modern-day design objects >

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