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Atolye on creating a space where community and strategic design meet
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Product Design
"There are many untapped markets as well as industries that need radical interventions" says architect Nesile Yalcin.
9 Jul 19
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Using unconventional materials to create wearable art
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Fashion & Jewellery Design
Shaline Naicker uses photochromic lenses within her work as she focuses on merging technology and fashion.
9 Jul 19
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Grow edible algae in your home
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Food Design
The Coral is an indoor micro-algae farm designed to welcome algae into our everyday lives.
9 Jul 19
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This lightweight, flexible shoe is made from ‘algae foam’
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Product Design
VIVOBAREFOOT and Bloom team up on the world’s first shoe made with the material.
8 Jul 19
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Gourmet Grubb makes the world’s first insect-derived dairy alternative
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Food Design
Leah Bessa takes us behind the scenes at her new pop-up restaurant in Woodstock, The Insect Experience by Gourmet Grubb.
8 Jul 19
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How floating homes will help people in flood-prone countries
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Urban & Landscape Design
Dream Homes is a project by Dundee University in which they co-designed with local Bangladeshis to create resilient floating homes.
8 Jul 19
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Max-Gordon Stoffberg on community empowerment and creativity
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Design Activism
“I have a willingness to reach out to the marginalised in society. I believe everyone has equal potential power and everyone has unique gifts & talents.”
5 Jul 19
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Colourful totems in Poland carry strong message about climate change
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Industrial Design
Totemy by Alicja Biała and former Design Indaba speaker, Iwo Borkowicz, symbolises the relationship between people and the forces of nature.
5 Jul 19
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Chad Hanning on the importance of street art
Next Generation
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Graphic Design & Illustration
“I believe in how powerful street art is and use it to give a place life or a feeling.”
4 Jul 19
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Ndumiso Nyoni uses striking geometric illustrations to celebrate women
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Graphic Design & Illustration
The graphic designer and illustrator talks to us about the inspiration behind the African Sisters project.
4 Jul 19
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Thaakierah Abdul is using graphic design to push for Cape Malay recognition
Design Frontiers
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Graphic Design & Illustration
The 2018 Design Indaba Emerging Creative draws inspiration from her family and people in the streets like informal traders.
3 Jul 19
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Photographer Cole Ndelu explores the dissonance of masculine femininity
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Art & Photography
“Seeing masculinity and femininity outside of the norm must become the norm.”
2 Jul 19
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Six designers tackle sustainability from food, waste and even death
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Product Design
These Design Indaba 2019 speakers are working to design more sustainable methods and products.
2 Jul 19
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This museum preserves Brazil's cultural and craft memory
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Design Activism
The A CASA Museum of the Brazilian Object has dedicated 21 years to preserving the rich cultural history of the Brazilian people.
1 Jul 19
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Call for applications: Summer programme 2019
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Design Activism
The University of the Underground and the Hannah Arendt Center at Bard College invite you to apply for POST-NATION STATES, Summer School 19 in NYC.
27 Jun 19
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Crystal Birch invites us into her hat wonderland
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Fashion & Jewellery Design
The hat designer, stylist and milliner takes us behind the scenes of how she comes up with her playful designs.
27 Jun 19
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Durban students initiate a space to foster more campus interaction
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Urban & Landscape Design
The Level Six project is the first student-led project guided by professionals to come out of Durban University of Technology.
25 Jun 19
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Using empathic design to save the lives of pregnant women
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Product Design
How Caroline Smeenk and Dahabo Adi Galgallo are saving the lives of mothers and their unborn children, on opposite sides of the world.
24 Jun 19
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Students explore death through a video game and our fascination with fake goods
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Information Design
We spotlight the work of two graduates from the University of the Underground which was started by Dr Nelly Ben-Hayoun.
20 Jun 19
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Meet Hayden Williams, the fashion illustrator to Hollywood stars
Design News
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Graphic Design & Illustration
The 27-year-old talks to us about how he harnessed his 1,2 million Instagram followers to build a global brand.
20 Jun 19
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Creating art out of scrap engine parts
Next Generation
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Product Design
Kara Schoeman creates intricate art bowls out of recycled metals.
20 Jun 19
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How these Ghanaian developers are creating awareness around e-waste
Next Generation
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Information Design
Ghanaian game developers, Enter Africa, are creating a game that focuses on the issues of safety and sanitation surrounding e-waste dumps.
19 Jun 19
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Applications for African Crossroads 2019 are now open!
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Interaction Design
Hivos is looking for content proposals from artists, entrepreneurs, chefs, designers, researchers, to imagine the future of African cities.
19 Jun 19
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Nigerian sculptor makes life-sized art using spoons
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Craft
Abinoro Akporode Collins says he was first challenged by his art lecturer to try unconventional materials for his sculptures.
19 Jun 19
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