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The world is changing and green material is at the forefront
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Design Thinking
We look a little deeper at the materials trend that led to tangible design solutions we found this year.
21 Dec 18
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Five killer Design Indaba Conference talks you should watch
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Product Design
From graphic designer Natasha Jen to architect Francis Kéré, here are our top 5 Design Indaba Conference talks.
20 Dec 18
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Creatives that shape cultural narratives
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Film & Animation
These Design Indaba 2019 speakers are using their wells of creativity to define culture in a myriad of magical ways.
19 Dec 18
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Should we engineer the climate? A social scientist and natural scientist discuss
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Design Activism
This is an article from Head to Head, a series in which academics from different disciplines chew over current debates.
19 Dec 18
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5 Innovations that broke the mould in 2018
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Design Thinking
Pioneers in their fields, these innovations were made to provide new solutions to old problems.
18 Dec 18
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Our top five trending stories of 2018
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Graphic Design & Illustration
As 2018 comes to an end, we're highlighting stories that grabbed our readers' attention this year.
17 Dec 18
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The Socio-Technical City combats the key challenges of our future cities
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Design Thinking
UNStudio designs a speculative cityscape for The Hague, aimed to address rapid urban growth and sustainability.
14 Dec 18
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Oliber helps people with partial or total atrophy of the hands
Next Generation
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Product Design
Chilean design graduate Bárbara López designed a low-cost tool to give new hands to those in need.
14 Dec 18
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Design Indaba 2019: Where business and design meet
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Product Design
The next Design Indaba Conference is set to tackle various topics across business and design.
13 Dec 18
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The 5 most searched designers in 2018
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Design Thinking
Spanning across diverse ages, nationalities and disciplines, these were the most searched Design Indaba speakers in 2018
12 Dec 18
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From scrap to robot: This unlikely creation is one man's livelihood
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Craft
I’ve always been good with my hands, says South Africa's “Robot Man”.
12 Dec 18
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William Kentridge: the barbarity of the 'Great War' told through an African lens
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Design Thinking
Kentridge underlines the lunacy of the project in every part of the production – from ruined landscapes to caricatural imagery to ironic captions
10 Dec 18
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Could self-examination rape kits curb sexual violence in Kenya?
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Design Activism
A team of researchers are developing a tool much like a tampon that rape survivors can apply themselves after an attack.
7 Dec 18
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Smart Havens Africa uses human-centered business models to help the poor build homes
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Urban & Landscape Design
The company looks at developing green houses by promoting sustainable building and also tackling housing poverty.
6 Dec 18
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Design Indaba 2019 presents: Architecture driven by social responsibility
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Architecture & Interiors
From Mariam Kamara to Dong Ping-Wong, the 2019 Design Indaba Conference will host a list of renowned architects.
5 Dec 18
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If the Moon made music, how would it sound?
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Music & Sound Design
University of Iceland graduate Halldór Eldjárn uses images and algorithms to create otherworldly tracks at a click of a button.
5 Dec 18
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Mapping the complexity of access and ethics in Johannesburg
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Urban & Landscape Design
We fail to think of residents, particularly if they happen to be poor, as full and complex human beings whose passions and needs morph over time
4 Dec 18
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The way we build homes is wrong, says Joe Gebbia, and here's how he wants to fix it
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Design Activism
"In order to meet the demands of the future, whether it be climate displacement or rural-urban migration, the home needs to evolve, to think forward.”
30 Nov 18
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Putting service delivery in the hands of the people
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Design Activism
Graduate designer Nicole Nomsa Moyo envisions a way to empower people to build for themselves.
30 Nov 18
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People, design and the identity of Maseru
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Architecture & Interiors
“In addition to the identity of the citizens, cities are shaped by their historical, climatic and sociopolitical conditions.”
30 Nov 18
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Converting historical sites into modern architecture with John Pawson
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Product Design
Set to speak at Design Indaba 2019, architect and interior designer, John Pawson is known for his minimalist approach.
29 Nov 18
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The 2019 Design Indaba Emerging Creatives are here
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Design Activism
Each year we select 50 up and coming South African creatives and each year they surprise and beguile us.
29 Nov 18
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Fight against malaria needs combination of innovative science and communities
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Design Activism
One promising solution includes reducing the population of malaria mosquitoes through genetic modification to help reach the target of ending transmission.
28 Nov 18
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Meet the design graduate who created her own coffin
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Product Design
Confronted with the mortality of not only her body but the world, Shaina Garfield found healing in the subject of death.
26 Nov 18
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