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  • Jaime Hayon Speaker 2016
    Jaime Hayón
    Artist / Industrial Designer / Product Designer
    Madrid-based Jaime Hayón is an artist-designer known for the bold-yet-whimsical look and feel he brings to his work.
    Valencia, Spain
  • Speaker 2002
    Shigeru Ban
    Architect
    Shigeru Ban is a Japanese architect renowned for his innovative work with, particularly, cardboard.
    Tokyo, Japan
  • Sou Fujimoto. Photo: David Vintiner Speaker 2016
    Sou Fujimoto
    Architect
    Philosophical architect Sou Fujimoto blurs the lines between the public and the private in his thought-provoking work.
    Tokyo, Japan
  • Maxwell Mutanda Speaker 2016
    Maxwell Mutanda
    Architect
    Multi-talented architect Maxwell Mutanda uses design to address real-world issues.
    Harare, Zimbabwe
  • Massimo and Lella Vignelli Speaker 2007
    Massimo and Lella Vignelli
    Graphic Designer / Product Designer
    Massimo Vignelli (1931 to 2014) and his wife and partner Lella cofounded Vignelli Associates, and Vignelli Center for Design Studies.
    New York, USA
  • LACED is a range of hand-crafted, customised footwear, made to order by architect Dhiantha Achary. Pro-account
    Dhiantha Achary
    LACED is a range of hand-crafted, customised footwear, made to order by architect Dhiantha Achary.
    Durban, South Africa
  • Safia Qureshi Speaker 2016
    Safia Qureshi
    Architect / Entrepreneur
    Safia Qureshi is an award-winning architect, social designer, entrepreneur and one half of Studio [D] Tale.
    London, United Kingdom
  • Danish artist Thomas Poulsen, who goes by the alias FOS Speaker 2016
    FOS
    Artist
    Danish artist Thomas Poulsen, who works under the alias FOS, creates unusual spaces that rely on human interaction to really come to life.
    Copenhagen, Denmark
  • Vera de Pont Speaker 2016
    Vera de Pont
    Fashion Designer / Speculative Designer
    Futuristic fashion researcher Vera de Pont explores the relationship between the human body and its surroundings. She works in both fantasy and reality.
    Eindhoven, Netherlands
  • Hilary Cottam Speaker 2016
    Hilary Cottam
    Social Entrepreneur
    Hilary Cottam is a designer, innovator and social entrepreneur who pioneers the use of design for social change.
    London, United Kingdom
  • Francis Kéré Speaker 2011
    Francis Kéré
    Architect
    Diébédo Francis Kéré is an architect from Burkina Faso. The focus of Kéré’s drafts are climatic adaptation, low building costs and self building.
    Burkina Faso
  • Speaker 2010
    Boback Firoozbakht
    Design Consultant
    Responsible and sustainable design tactics
    Arlington, USA
  • Heath Nash Speaker 2007
    Heath Nash
    Product Designer
    Heath Nash is a product designer best known for turning waste materials into covetable designs.
    Cape Town, South Africa
  • Naoto Fukasawa Speaker 2014
    Naoto Fukasawa
    Industrial Designer
    Japanese industrial designer Naoto Fukasawa is one of the world's most influential designers.
    Tokyo, Japan
  • Alfredo Brillembourg is an architect and urban designer redefining the socio-economic system to overcome the emergent challenges in rapid urbanisation. Speaker 2016
    Alfredo Brillembourg
    Architect / Urban Designer
    Alfredo Brillembourg is an architect and urban designer redefining the socio-economic system to overcome the emergent challenges in rapid urbanisation.
    Caracas, Venezuela
  • Speaker 2012
    Piet Hein Eek
    Furniture Designer
    Piet Hein Eek has been using scraps of wood to create distinctive furniture pieces since long before sustainability became the designer buzzword it is today.
    Eindhoven, Netherlands
  • Clara Mar Hernández López Speaker 2016
    Clara Mar Hernández López
    Architect
    Clara Mar Hernández López is an architect with a special interest in sustainable design.
    USA
  • Pia Nyakairu Speaker 2016
    Pia Nyakairu
    Industrial Designer
    Ugandan industrial designer Pia Nyakairu focuses on remote rehabilitation for breast cancer patients.
    Toronto, Canada
  • Speaker 2013
    Martí Guixé
    Food Designer / Industrial Designer / Interior Designer
    Martí Guixé is a Catalonian interior and industrial designer living in Barcelona.
    Spain
  • Ferran Adrià Speaker 2009
    Ferran Adrià
    Chef
    Ferran Adrià is the famed head chef of elBulli in Spain, the 3-Michelin-star restaurant that was ranked the best in the world from 2006 to 2009.
    Barcelona, Spain
  • Van Eijk & Van der Lubbe Speaker 2016
    Van Eijk & Van der Lubbe
    Design Studio
    With a laser-sharp focus on the future, Dutch designers Miriam van der Lubbe and Niels van Eijk are on the pulse of concept design.
    Netherlands
  • Christian Benimana Speaker 2016
    Christian Benimana
    Architect
    Christian Benimana believes that architecture must go beyond the design of the building and into an understanding of how buildings impact the lives of users.
    Kigali, Rwanda
  • "Light is a thing of beauty in that it overcomes darkness" - W&N Studio, London-based image makers, artists and filmmakers Speaker 2016
    Warren du Preez and Nick Thornton Jones
    Art Director / Filmmaker / Photographer
    "Light is a thing of beauty in that it overcomes darkness" - W&N Studio, London-based image makers, artists and filmmakers.
    London, United Kingdom
  • Speaker 2010
    Frank Tjepkema
    Product Designer
    Frank Tjepkema is the founder of Tjep. design studio in Amsterdam whose expertise includes interior, architectural, product, visual and jewellery design.
    Amsterdam, Netherlands
  • Jaime Hayon Speaker 2016
    Jaime Hayón
    Artist / Industrial Designer / Product Designer
    Madrid-based Jaime Hayón is an artist-designer known for the bold-yet-whimsical look and feel he brings to his work.
    Valencia, Spain
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