Ghana | Design Indaba

Ibrahim Mahama: Monumentality

A rethinking of monumentality, using reclaimed materials to reveal hidden histories of labour, trade and colonialism through large-scale installations. >
Kunsthalle Bern

Kunsthalle Bern gets wrapped >
Ruins to Museum

New museum in Accra Ghana uses art and architecture to promote urban regeneration. >
Gold standard

Ghanaian-Scottish architect Lesley Lokko has won architecture’s Royal Gold Medal. >
Ghana’s national pavilion

How do you define freedom? Ghana’s flag provides a clue – as does its striking pavilion at this year’s Venice Biennale >
An Architect’s Agenda

David Adjaye’s first design for Ghana’s visionary healthcare initiative to be built in 2022 >
Out of this world

Ghanaian artist Steloo channels Zambian ‘Afronaut’ >
A changing landscape

This week: Design takes Gold in Tokyo; the war on waste; and artists changing norms… >
#DI Exclusive: Steloolive launches his latest experimental project, NiKANiKA Robotics

Maverick Ghanian muso and #DI18 performer Steloolive shares his most recent artistic explorations with us >
#DI Exclusive: Steloolive launches his latest experimental project, NiKANiKA Robotics

Maverick Ghanian muso and #DI18 performer Steloolive shares his most recent artistic explorations with us >
Ghana’s wunderkind Ibrahim Mahama to shared his monumental artworks at Design Indaba 2020

Ibrahim Mahama spoke at the 2020 Design Indaba Conference. >
Ibrahim Mahama

Artist

Ibrahim Mahama is a Ghanaian mixed-media artist. >
Ghanaian artist Ibrahim Mahama will be speaking at Design Indaba 2020

The artist and author is famed for draping buildings in materials, like jute sacks, as a comment on our complicated colonial histories. >
Limbo Accra, how design is saving a city caught in limbo

Art platform, Limbo Accra, explores the urban structures of the city of Accra >
How digital technologies can help Africa’s smallholder farmers

The various applications of digital tech in agriculture could produce unprecedented results on the continent. >
How these Ghanaian developers are creating awareness around e-waste

Ghanaian game developers, Enter Africa, are creating a game that focuses on the issues of safety and sanitation surrounding e-waste dumps. >
African architecture: Ornaments, crime & prejudice

Mathias Agbo, Jr. reflects on the importance of African ornamentation and the stories they convey. >
DJ Steloo's latest work looks to the ocean for inspiration

Called Stitches From The Ocean, the Accra-based creative says he wanted to let the audience into the other side of his creative process. >
Colors of the Earth: Ghana's incredible, rammed earth walls

Ghanaian entrepreneur Joelle Eyeson is experimenting with the sustainable technique that could aid her country's housing problem. >
Accra's Arch Xenus is redefining what it means to be a successful architectural firm

We met the founder and principal architect who shared more about their approach to business. >
Anarchic creativity in Accra with Francis Kokoroko & Daniel Quist

“We are easily bored, so we are always pushing ourselves to be creative. With photography, with fashion, with whatever we do – we try to do what’s different.” >
Reviving the history of cocoa production in Ghana

The team behind the concept will be exhibiting at Design Indaba Festival 2019 to showcase design and architecture's role in shaping place >
Smart Havens Africa uses human-centered business models to help the poor build homes

The company looks at developing green houses by promoting sustainable building and also tackling housing poverty. >
Making sense of Ghana’s built environment with architect Alice Asafu-Adjaye

Design needs to be driven more by people’s needs and less by ego, says the architect. >

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