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Cross Cultural Chairs examines the role of the chair in our modern society

Design News > Product Design

"Analysing a chair you can understand the stature of a culture, what kind of materials they used and what kind of techniques they knew."

1 Apr 19
00:08:50

On cityscapes and soundsuits with future-proofing graduate Ines De Peuter

Design Frontiers > Product Design

Ines De Peuter investigates the relationship between the self and its context by creating garments that adapt to the concrete jungle.

1 Apr 19
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How can storytelling help alleviate the effects of disease?

Design Frontiers > Information Design

Researchers are experimenting with various methods of engagement to gain insights in AIDS and antiretroviral treatment adherence.

29 Mar 19
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This Bible-verse inspired building has a unique swan-like design

Design News > Architecture & Interiors

The distinctive roof is a pearly white concrete structure with sweeping, futuristic curves.

28 Mar 19
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The world’s first 3D printed middle ear transplant happened in South Africa

Design Frontiers > Industrial Design

We take a look at Professor Mashudu Tshifularo's achievement and other ways 3D technology has helped the medical field.

27 Mar 19
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One photographer's surrealist impression of mental illness

Design News > Art & Photography

Katie Joy Crawford was diagnosed young. This is how she sees her anxiety and depression.

27 Mar 19
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Abstract Peaces: Redefining mental illness

Design News > Art & Photography

Conceptual photographer Tsoku Maela challenges the stigma around mental illness by drawing on his personal experience.

26 Mar 19
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This device could simplify and reduce the costs of TB treatment

Design Frontiers > Product Design

An MIT research team conceived a device that would release a month’s supply of antibiotics within the body

26 Mar 19
00:09:45

Designer Ini Archibong on merging myth and reality to create The Secret Garden

Talks > Product Design

The ECAL graduate spoke about overcoming a difficult time, his design process and the importance of fulfilling a higher purpose.

25 Mar 19
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Four designers are looking to redesign the gynaecology experience

Design News > Design Thinking

Yona is trying to redesign the uncomfortable vaginal speculum using human-centred experience design.

25 Mar 19
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On being a young creative dealing with mental health

Design News > Graphic Design & Illustration

We spoke to past Design Indaba Emerging Creatives to unpack the way creativity and mental health co-exist in their lives.

25 Mar 19
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Zipline is the small medical drone in Rwanda solving a worldwide logistics problem

Design News > Product Design

"Health is where we found the connection between something we knew we could do and a problem that needed solving," Zipline's Keenan Wyrobek.

25 Mar 19
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The bizarre and confounding influence of Dubai on Africa’s emerging cities

Design Frontiers > Architecture & Interiors

Design researcher and built environment designer Mathias Agbo, Jr speaks to Nigerian, UAE-based architect Safiya Yahaya on this phenomenon

22 Mar 19
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SPACE10 creates SolarVille prototype for a cleaner future

Design Frontiers > Urban & Landscape Design

"We can actively choose to take major steps to reduce global warming and stabilise our climate.”

22 Mar 19
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Lemn Sissay on the importance of daily acts of creativity

Video Interviews > Design Thinking

Sissay talks to us about taking creative risks and where he finds inspiration to write a new poem every morning.

20 Mar 19
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Mariam Kamara unveils a new collaboration with Design Indaba in Niger

Design Frontiers > Urban & Landscape Design

The Artisan Valley is a whimsical promenade with spaces for local artisans to show off their traditional fabrication processes.

20 Mar 19
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Meet the landscape architect determined to save Bangkok from drowning

Design Frontiers > Urban & Landscape Design

“The health of the city is directly related to the health of the people. Right now the city is sick so we are all sick,” Kotchakorn Voraakhom.

20 Mar 19
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Cairo architect Nada Elhadedy on architecture driven by circumstance

Design News > Architecture & Interiors

“So instead of using the building as a barrier… we used it to promote openings and interaction.”

20 Mar 19
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Ilze Wolff on creating an activist and public culture around architecture

Design News > Architecture & Interiors

In this architectural practice collaboration with artists is just as important as working with other architects and engineers.

20 Mar 19
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Cyborg artists Neil Harbisson and Moon Ribas on physically merging oneself with technology

Video Interviews > Music & Sound Design

“I think the more we design ourselves the less we’ll have to design the planet and the less we’ll have to change it.”

19 Mar 19
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Tumelo Lerata wins most promising award in international housing competition

Design Frontiers > Industrial Design

The "r.i.s.e in the city" design competition is aimed at bridging the gap between entrepreneurship and architecture.

19 Mar 19
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Could embracing the informality of South Africa’s chaotic taxi industry do more good than bad?

Design News > Urban & Landscape Design

Researcher and urban planner Zonke Mkhomazi discusses the history and future of transport in South Africa.

18 Mar 19
00:02:56

Malawian artist Samson Kambalu on the non-Western ways of crafting a narrative

Video Interviews > Film & Animation

The multimedia artist says there’s no such thing as a passive audience in Africa.

15 Mar 19
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8 emerging fashion designers on their interpretation of South African fashion

Next Generation > Fashion & Jewellery Design

These designers were part of this year's Design Indaba Emerging Creatives Programme.

15 Mar 19

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Invented reality

Design News • 10 Aug 22

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Q&A • 10 Aug 22

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Alter ego

Q&A • 10 Aug 22

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Design News • 10 Aug 22

Design Indaba alumnus Shaakira Jassat created a collection of trick glasses inspired by social distancing and caterpillars for the Nationaal Glasmuseum >

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