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Afro-centric UX Designer. >

SWINE explores themes of regional identity and the future of resources. >

Based in New Delhi, Aditi Khurana is the International Regional Coordinator for School of Visual Arts (SVA), New York City. >

Co-founder and creative director of the award-winning design studio Birsel + Seck, Ayse Birsel is also a teacher and the author of "Design the Life You Love". >

The head of design at IKEA challenges the way traditional products are made. >

Isabel Mager is an investigative and critical designer based in the Netherlands. Her work investigates culture and structures of power. >

Grace Jun is designer and self-taught coder. Her work examines functional fashion for inclusion with the aim to anchor wearable tech to the human experience. >

Shoko Tamura is a member of Daijiro Mizuno research laboratory at Keio University, Tokyo Japan, where she looks at speculative design and the human mind. >

TL Uglow ('Tea') is the creative director of Google's Creative Lab in Sydney and a tech celebrity. >

Tech entrepreneur Marko Ahtisaari is the CEO and co-founder of The Sync Project, which investigates the therapeutic effects of music on the body and mind. >

Chris Sheldrick is the founder of what3words, an addressing app that assigns a sequence of three simple words to any location in the world. >

Creative director, writer, photographer & fine artist all in one. >

Liberty was a sponsor for Design Indaba Festival 2017 and is also sponsoring the Knowledge Exchange series with Design Indaba. >

Conceptual artist Koen Vanmechelen explores the importance of biocultural diversity, identity and community in his Cosmopolitan Chicken Project. >

Tech entrepreneur and crowdsourcing pioneer Luis von Ahn is best known for creating CAPTCHAs and the language-learning platform Duolingo. >

“There are three responses to a piece of design – yes, no, and WOW! Wow is the one to aim for.” - Milton Glaser >

Co-founder and CPO of Airbnb, designer Joe Gebbia changed the way people travel and interact with strangers with his peer-to-peer home-rental startup. >

THE LAKE is a new LP-sized free bimonthly publication available nationwide at selected outlets. >

Multidisciplinary artist Naama Schendar explores identity and individuality through constructed methods of experiencing empathy. >

Despite highly different cultures, Cebisa Mafukuzela and Georgina Campbell have come together to celebrate these differences through CROSS.CULTURE. >

Unlabelled magazine strives to showcase authentic South African street fashion and style in a hip, edgy way by drawing inspiration from 'Jozi' street culture. >

Hilary Cottam is a designer, innovator and social entrepreneur who pioneers the use of design for social change. >

Lynne Avis is the jeweller behind the brand Obtuse, which explores alternate forms and shapes for jewellery. >