The South African Informal City exhibition in Johannesburg, during COP17, aims to encourage dialogue around urban development.

Keen to try your hand at beekeeping? It might be possible to do so in your city apartment with Philips's Urban Beehive concept.

Depict 11.11.11 and you could win R11 111,11 worth of Design Indaba Shop vouchers. Well done to Samantha Jones whose submission got the popular vote.

Karim Rashid's colourful Bobble water jug is ideal for filtering water, it looks good and it's 100% recyclable.

The colourful Nature Matching System works to remind you to consume the right colour combination of fruit and veg every day.

Would a banana still be a banana if it weren't yellow and shaped as it is? A philosophical question perhaps, but one that Uli Westphal explores with Mutatoes.

Airdrop is an irrigation concept that harvests the moisture in the air to irrigate crops in times of drought.

The Kickstand desk allows you to kill two birds with one stone - get your desk job done and keep fit.

Sarah Emily Duff shows that in their mystification of cooking and eating, foodies are snobs, not gluttons.

Martin Hablesreiter thinks that Barack Obama himself should be dealing with food issues, not his wife.