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“When designing for these diseases, you’re not designing to please or impress. You design because people are on fire and you might just have the water.” >

“We desperately need good design in this world and we desperately don't need bad design. That's why it's so important that we should come to terms with it.” >

“It takes great discipline to reduce until you can't further subtract anymore." >

The architect's projects include an idea for a pool that also purifies the East River as well as collaborations with Kanye West and Virgil Abloh. >

Her thesis project Ukubutha looks at service delivery solutions in Mamelodi, a township in Pretoria. >

At Design Indaba Conference 2019, the Niger-born architect shared how she is using her work to shift perceptions of her home country. >

“Designing shows that there’s so many possibilities because there is no one truth. There is power in not knowing.” >

“What I do is act like a kind of connector or conduit of emotion. Emotion in words, in pace, in visuals across the screen.” >

“You need to be honest when you’re telling your story…it has to be a truth from inside.” >

"With the help of technology, with the help of design, we are improving the world". >

Neil Harbisson has an antenna implanted in his skull that allows him to feel colour, while Moon Ribas has sensors in her feet that allow her to feel earthquakes >

“The promise of design is to inspire industry to follow suit in the quest for better methods to produce using solar energy and abundant resources.” >

In her research, graduate Ellie Frymire looks beyond the tweets to delve further into what people are really saying. >

“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.” >

Gonzalez shares his method to coming up with creative solutions to everyday problems. >

The Japanese sound designer shares how he finds “order in the noise.” >

“The unknown in our practice is the most fertile place, and we love the unknown." >

Pascale Theron's work looks at breathing life into the vulnerable ostrich farming industry in Oudtshoorn, South Africa. >

“When I start something I like to start with a problem.” >

“Linear and logical people make the world go round, but it’s the creative people who make it worth living in." >

“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. >

At Design Indaba Conference 2019, the group of African designers share the motivations behind the products they dreamed up and realised. >