Bilqis Rawoot | Design Indaba

Street art and energy inform Kronk’s Zakifo redesign

The Zakifo Musik Festival comes to Durban, South Africa with a look inspired by culture, street art and energy. >
AbsorbPlate cuts calories by reducing grease on your plate

The dinner plate’s design has perforations in its surface to trap excess grease. >
Tea shirts: clothing made from tea

A tea by-product could be a more sustainable material for clothing manufacture. >
BaseLantern: a new project by BioLite

The BaseLantern portable lantern is designed for off-grid usage. >
Mover Kit: Make-it-yourself technology

This toy introduces kids to coding and the technology behind their gadgets. >
Parallel: Si MacLennan and Ross Symons collaborate on a new project

The two artists have incorporated their unique styles into a colourful creation. >
SkinTrack: the next step in wearable technology

The new device uses your arm’s surface as a touch-screen, extending the interface of the smartwatch. >
John Radcliffe Studios documents the regular lives of refugees

Foreigner: Migration into Europe 2015–16, is a photography series that hopes to portray a less sensationalist account of the refugee crisis. >
Mimicking the womb

An artificial placenta could revolutionise care for premature babies. >
Recycled materials unite on a grand scale with Collage House

The Mumbai home is made from a collection of recycled and found materials. >
Wear Your Label wants a stigma-free society

Wear Your Label gets people talking about mental health through fashion and jewellery design. >
When life hands you elephant dung, make paper

Kenyan entrepreneurs are protecting their environment by turning elephant dung into paper. >
Oded Ezer designs the Life/Death t-shirt

Tel Aviv-based graphic design artist Oded Exer designed a t-shirt to help refugees. >
"Inside Ya Body" looks inside the body for inspiration

Jack Sachs' solo installation takes a quirky, animated look at the inside of the human body. >
Three innovative solutions to water shortage in South Africa

These three ideas were submitted to Hack4Water, an initiative aimed to help solve some of SAs water challenges. >
Treating mental illness with virtual reality

An Oxford University study tested virtual simulation on sufferers of severe paranoia, with positive results. >
The FoodShare Truck: Fresh produce at affordable prices

The travelling food market offers fresh produce at cheaper prices to locals that otherwise can’t access or afford it. >
Transforming London’s Trafalgar Square into a crazy golf course

Designed by the late Zaha Hadid, the undulating course will be futuristic, functional, fun and free for the public. >
Recent innovations in nanowire technology could lead to self-cooling clothing

A more flexible, environmentally sound, safer nanowire array has the potential to revolutionise occupations like fire fighting. >
Play Sea Hero Quest and help scientists understand dementia

Scientists and game developers have teamed up to create a game that contributes to Alzheimer’s research. >
Shared Studios launches a new Portal to Rwanda

The project designs futuristic portals, allowing users to reach out across the globe and communicate with each other face-to-face. >
Green Product: Wirework takes a contemporary twist on traditional crafts

The South African self-help project uses recycled materials to create functional art. >
Chimera IoT: a Kenyan startup designing smart homes

The recently established company adapts Western technology to African specific conditions. >
A self-healing biomaterial is the closest yet to mimicking human muscle

New biomaterial possesses extreme stretchability, self-healing and endurance properties; all revolutionary in the development of artificial skin and muscle. >

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