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A rethinking of monumentality, using reclaimed materials to reveal hidden histories of labour, trade and colonialism through large-scale installations. >

A playful, provocative performance reframing food as design, challenging how and why we eat while exposing the systems shaping everyday consumption. >

A powerful reflection on design in a complex world, urging creatives to shape human-centred futures through empathy, curiosity and meaningful questions. >

A groundbreaking rethink of waste, transforming human urine into sustainable building material while challenging how we define value and innovation >

A reflective talk on creativity, identity and resilience, urging designers to embrace imperfection. >

Paul Cocksedge explores how curiosity and experimentation transform everyday phenomena into immersive, wonder-driven design experiences. >

Designing Memory, Identity, and Place >

Food systems, heritage and sustainability converge in Selassie’s New African Cuisine vision. >

The couple talked about honesty, creativity, their project Complements and the universal strangeness of love. >

His project Algorithmic Couture merges tradition and technology to produce zero-waste garments. >

The graphic designer talks us through his design career and starting his own agency, Middleboop. >

The Royal College of Art graduate’s work focuses on meditation and developing technology for the mind. >

The Nigerian designer’s brand Orange Culture embraces those who do not fit in and celebrates their individuality. >

He took the Design Indaba audience through his most famous project and showcased how nature inspired it. >

Interdisciplinary artist Steph Foster is using his art to investigate and address what's wrong with the United States criminal justice system. >

"Entering into collaborations with key people in my life has helped me rediscover my root inspiration." >

She shared how her project Leaves proposes a sustainable coffin that will help the body decompose naturally. >

She speaks about Twenty, a range of waterless dissolvable capsules that take away the need to use 80 - 95% water to make these products. >

The African Design Centre graduate on how growing up in an unusual house in Soweto would later inspire his career in design. >

Product designer Carolien Niebling believes that people can make a difference if they just take a moment to look at things a little differently. >

She may not call herself an art curator but Hannah Barry explains how she revived an art scene via an abandoned car park. >

The veteran architect questions the greater role architects need to play after erecting projects in underresourced areas. >

“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." >