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The design flaw in data science
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Information Design
Artificial intelligence will mimic human prejudices unless we change the way we assess machine learning models
15 Apr 19
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Keenan Wyrobek on saving lives with drones
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Product Design
“Doctors shared with us their torment at losing patients they knew how to save. They knew the treatments. They just didn’t have the supplies.”
15 Apr 19
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Could the heat generated by blockchain be useful for other living beings?
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With a project called Farm, MIT student Gary Zhang shows that heat generated in the blockchain has many uses.
15 Apr 19
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Baleka is two steps forward for African robotics
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Industrial Design
Developed by a team of researchers at the University of Cape Town, it’s a first for the continent.
12 Apr 19
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SA artist uses cow dung to explore questions on perception and aesthetics
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Design Thinking
Mawande Ka Zenzile explains how his reliance on intuition has made his work a lot more honest over the years.
12 Apr 19
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Rodrigo Garcia Gonzalez on tackling the world’s problems with creativity
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Gonzalez shares his method to coming up with creative solutions to everyday problems.
12 Apr 19
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(P)residant: Those who don't let go of power
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Art & Photography
"I call them 'les presidents residants' because they never want to leave power once in the seat." – Fabrice Monteiro, photographer, Dakar.
11 Apr 19
00:09:03
The eco-friendly benefits of a busted smartphone
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Product Design
“This project takes the seemingly catastrophic moment in which the smartphone breaks as an opportunity to redefine the value of the expired object.”
11 Apr 19
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Yuri Suzuki on combining his passion for music and design
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Music & Sound Design
The Japanese sound designer shares how he finds “order in the noise.”
11 Apr 19
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Tin&Ed on work that fosters togetherness and celebrating the unknown
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Music & Sound Design
“The unknown in our practice is the most fertile place, and we love the unknown."
10 Apr 19
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Bringing Afrocentric design to Milan Design Week
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Product Design
Meet the South African designers who will be exhibiting their work for the first time at Milan Design Week.
10 Apr 19
00:06:53
Designing a way to build bonds between strangers
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Interaction Design
Social designer Manon van Hoeckel creates spaces, art pieces and experiences that confront divides between people.
9 Apr 19
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Here’s how movement can form type
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Graphic Design & Illustration
“The story of movement has just begun and we're really looking forward to where your designs take it.”
9 Apr 19
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How ostrich feathers are uplifting Oudtshoorn's economy through design
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Pascale Theron's work looks at breathing life into the vulnerable ostrich farming industry in Oudtshoorn, South Africa.
8 Apr 19
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Urban designer Alice Cabaret on innovation in challenging places like Maboneng
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Urban & Landscape Design
"[Maboneng] has also helped to open a very needed debate, in academic and social circles, about urban transformation in complex contexts like Johannesburg."
5 Apr 19
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Dave Hakkens on tackling the planet's waste
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“When I start something I like to start with a problem.”
5 Apr 19
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Neri Oxman’s installation exploring the possibilities of melanin
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Architecture & Interiors
Through digital fabrication and design computation, the pigment could sustain and enhance the planet’s endangered biodiversity.
5 Apr 19
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Sir David Adjaye designs memorial in honour of Hugh Masekela
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Urban & Landscape Design
The Masekela family, in collaboration with Design Indaba, will be unveiling a memorial pavilion during youth month.
4 Apr 19
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David Droga on why he is still optimistic about advertising
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Film & Animation
“Linear and logical people make the world go round, but it’s the creative people who make it worth living in."
4 Apr 19
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On building a disappearing city in the Moroccan Sahara
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Urban & Landscape Design
"As designers, architects know how to build cities, but our field as a whole has not yet grasped how to make them disappear."
4 Apr 19
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The whimsical illustrations of Monica Obaga
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Art & Photography
“I would say my aesthetic has always been whimsical because all my favourite media as a child were musicals, cartoons, books, comics and fashion.”
3 Apr 19
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Wanuri Kahiu on using film to talk about Africans as joyful and radiant
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Film & Animation
“I realised that there is more images and more stories of joy than there is of remorse,” Kahiu says of her search for African stories of joy.
3 Apr 19
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Youngsta: Rapping the stories of the Cape Colony
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Music & Sound Design
We sat down with one of South African rap's busiest and most artists.
3 Apr 19
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IKEA ÖVERALLT: In the designers' words
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Product Design
At Design Indaba Conference 2019, the group of African designers share the motivations behind the products they dreamed up and realised.
2 Apr 19
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