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Students explore bamboo as sustainable alternative to conventional building
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Design Activism
Combining traditional weaving techniques with digital design.
4 May 18
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Brynjar Sigurðarson on the relationship between objects and stories
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Product Design
The Design Indaba #GlobalGrad alumnus has been awarded with the Torsten and Wanja Söderberg Prize 2018.
3 May 18
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Learn how these wearables serve the hearing impaired
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Product Design
"How can the deaf and hearing-impaired community experience music, without actually hearing it?"
3 May 18
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These Senegalese rappers found an ingenious way to report on politics
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Music & Sound Design
“There is a long tradition in hip hop here [Senegal], particularly hip hop being political."
3 May 18
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This is the world's first biodegradable home pregnancy test
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Product Design
The lightweight, ultra-thin invention can be sent in an envelope and biodegrades in three months.
2 May 18
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An ostomy bag for health, beauty and function
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Product Design
We look back at some impactful design from a UK graduate who sought to combat stigma in health care.
2 May 18
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A photo series on colourism in Haiti, the first black republic
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Art & Photography
“They used to put me down so much because I was this dark and now, I fucking love myself.”
1 May 18
00:36:37
Sunu Gonera on finding his voice, afrofuturism and making heroes out of ordinary people
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Film & Animation
In this opening talk of Design Indaba 2018 that brought the audience to its feet, the filmmaker talks about his career high and lows.
1 May 18
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Plastic-infused concrete could cut cement industry’s carbon emissions
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Industrial Design
After water, concrete is the second most widely used material on Earth.
30 Apr 18
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This design festival is stitching together India's design community
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Graphic Design & Illustration
"It was one of its kind in the Indian design history. I’m not aware of any other festivals organised on such a massive scale."
30 Apr 18
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This device can keep opened wine fresh for 12 days
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Product Design
“It was my urge to solve the problem through design, coupled with my love of wine, that first prompted me to create Eto,” says the designer.
29 Apr 18
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Burkinabe women are channeling the spirit of a 12th century princess
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African Design
Burkinabe women working in careers traditionally dominated by men, all draw inspiration and courage from one source: Princess Yennenga.
29 Apr 18
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FrailTea analyses kettle grip data to monitor the health of the elderly
Next Generation
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Product Design
Callum Smith’s project FrailTea uses grip data from a kettle to monitor the health of elderly people and the state of their of frailty.
28 Apr 18
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This warning system could detect a drought earlier than ever before
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Design Thinking
Here's how MIT researchers are using the leaf surface to detect drought conditions.
28 Apr 18
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Aboubakar Fofana on the hypocrisy of the fashion industry
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Design Activism
The textile designer, artist and natural dyer calls out the trend forecasters and designers to take more responsibility.
27 Apr 18
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How these Barcelona creatives are helping brands to connect more with people
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Creative Economy
"We help them increase profit, because they genuinely connect to their users and customers with our services that address empathy.”
27 Apr 18
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The Freedom Day reading list
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Design Activism
These projects highlight the complicated matter of South Africa's "freedom" through the eyes of creatives.
27 Apr 18
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Grigri Pixel is uniting creatives on two continents through urban interventions
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Design Activism
The projects, which brings together African and European artists, was recently selected in the culture category for the FAD design prize.
27 Apr 18
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George Gibbens is using design to tackle South Africa's social problems
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Product Design
The industrial designer has designed a VR device to help the visually impaired, a portable machine to fight shack fires and more.
26 Apr 18
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Taiwanese students design foldable bone-fracture boards for disaster relief
Design News
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Product Design
Unlike traditional bone rehabilitation boards, BoneAid can be applied to multiple body parts with different folding methods.
26 Apr 18
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ECAL's Milo Keller on the changing face of photography
Inside View
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Art & Photography
“We believe that, as an art school, ECAL needs to develop the creative potential offered by new technologies by embracing and responding to their impact.”
26 Apr 18
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Edel Rodriguez on how the South African protest art influenced his work
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Graphic Design & Illustration
Rodriguez has a noted history of creating irreverent, illustrated depictions of the controversial US President Donald Trump.
26 Apr 18
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This children's home enables residents to be part of the construction process
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Design Activism
Langbos makes use of a simplified building process that ensures that anyone can build, eliminating heavy, expensive equipment and hard labour.
26 Apr 18
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Imagine if you never had to complain about missing socks ever again?
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Fashion & Jewellery Design
These Danish entrepreneurs are redesigning socks to make them more sustainable.
25 Apr 18
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