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A Gold Medal for design at the Tokyo Olympics
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Urban & Landscape Design
Some of the greatest moments of the Tokyo Olympics will prove to be design-related
2 Aug 21
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No Waste Challenge winner CarbonCraft is transforming construction
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Product Design
Carbon Tiles reuse waste to provide eco-friendly building materials
2 Aug 21
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Iwan Baan will transport you to the ‘Most Hopeful Places on Earth’
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Urban & Landscape Design
Renowned photographer Iwan Baan guest-curates See All This.
2 Aug 21
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We chatted to #DI Emerging Creative Thando Phenyane about his wide-ranging influences
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Art & Photography
Thando Phenyane’s artworks pay homage to his architectural and art studies.
2 Aug 21
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A changing landscape
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Music & Sound Design
This week: Design takes Gold in Tokyo; the war on waste; and artists changing norms…
29 Jul 21
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We chat to #DI Emerging Creative Kgothatso Malatjie about her emotionally charged multimedia work
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Art & Photography
Kgothatso Malatjie uses different artforms to express herself her emotions
26 Jul 21
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No Waste Challenge 2021 winner Mapu is the world’s first active sound system made of clay, wood, cork and wool
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Product Design
Craft-led Mapu proves that eco-friendly materials can replace plastics in electronics
26 Jul 21
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Pavilion Tokyo 2021 is a public arts intervention featuring former #DI Speaker Sou Fujimoto
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Urban & Landscape Design
Sou Fujimoto’s whimsical Cloud Pavilion adds visual poetry to urban Tokyo
26 Jul 21
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#DI Exclusive: Steloolive launches his latest experimental project, NiKANiKA Robotics
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Music & Sound Design
Maverick Ghanian muso and #DI18 performer Steloolive shares his most recent artistic explorations with us
26 Jul 21
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#DI Exclusive: Steloolive launches his latest experimental project, NiKANiKA Robotics
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Music & Sound Design
Maverick Ghanian muso and #DI18 performer Steloolive shares his most recent artistic explorations with us
26 Jul 21
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We chat to #DI Emerging Creative Kgothatso Malatjie about her emotionally charged multimedia work
Q&A
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Art & Photography
Kgothatso Malatjie uses different artforms to express herself her emotions
26 Jul 21
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Design that envisions a better future
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Urban & Landscape Design
No Waste winners, parks that halt climate change, & fashion that empowers…
22 Jul 21
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We chat to #DI Emerging Creative Azee Tanzi on tailoring and timeless fashion
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Fashion & Jewellery Design
Azola Tanzi’s clothing career is tailor-made for her
19 Jul 21
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LOLA and Piet Oudolf’s visionary new landscaping book and exhibition focuses on public gardens as a solution to climate change
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Urban & Landscape Design
Explore former #DI Speaker Peter Veenstra’s fertile new collab with Piet Oudolf
19 Jul 21
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#DI Emerging Creative Chifunilo Mulusa talks to #DI on giving back & African luxury
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Fashion & Jewellery Design
A timeless aesthetic is Milan-trained Chifunilo Mulusa’s design foundation
19 Jul 21
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No Waste Challenge winners announced!
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Product Design
Sixteen global waste-busters awarded top honours by What Design Can Do.
16 Jul 21
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Exploring Woven Cosmos, Kenyan biophilia, music’s mavericks, & our newest multimedia-ists
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Craft
New worlds
15 Jul 21
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We interview #DI Emerging Creative Alizwa Mnyatheli on her otherworldly art
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Art & Photography
Self-taught artist Alizwa Mnyatheli’s work poetically explores various mediums.
12 Jul 21
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Kéré Architecture’s Startup Lions Campus is set to inspire future achievers
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Architecture & Interiors
Former #DI Speaker Diébédo Francis Kéré designs a new nature-inspired landmark in Kenya.
12 Jul 21
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Hella Jongerius - a former #DI Speaker - welcomes you into her magical world of weaving
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Craft
Woven Cosmos, Hella Jongerius’ interactive show, demonstrates 25 years of textile wisdom.
12 Jul 21
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Discover how #DI Emerging Creative Nhlakanipho Mashinini explores difficult subject matter in our exclusive interview with the young digital artist
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Art & Photography
As a way to make sense of chaos, Nhlakanipho Mashinini layers different artistic techniques.
12 Jul 21
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Why KoolKiel’s cool, Kenya’s new CAMO-flage, proud LGBTQIA+ garb, & more!
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Fashion & Jewellery Design
A shot of Expression
8 Jul 21
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Denouncing plastic, hair as art, African spirituality & the Bouroullec Brothers’s latest…
Design Frontiers
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Design Thinking
Design for people, by people.
7 Jul 21
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Kenyan photographer Thandiwe Muriu’s Parisian show stands out by blending in
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Art & Photography
Thandiwe Muriu’s CAMO series celebrates being African by playing with colour and culture.
5 Jul 21
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Students explore bamboo as sustainable alternative to conventional building
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Combining traditional weaving techniques with digital design.
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Brynjar Sigurðarson on the relationship between objects and stories
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3 May 18
The Design Indaba #GlobalGrad alumnus has been awarded with the Torsten and Wanja Söderberg Prize 2018.
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Learn how these wearables serve the hearing impaired
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3 May 18
"How can the deaf and hearing-impaired community experience music, without actually hearing it?"
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These Senegalese rappers found an ingenious way to report on politics
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3 May 18
“There is a long tradition in hip hop here [Senegal], particularly hip hop being political."
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No Waste Challenge winners announced!
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