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Community originals
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Urban & Landscape Design
Creative community rejuvenation is where its at for the All Originals I Art SA community mural project.
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7 Apr 11
Design and social change at DI2011
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Design Thinking
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Fashion & Jewellery Design
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Industrial Design
Mexican designers Pedro Reyes and Carla Fernandez talk about how design can have a real impact on the world.
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10 Mar 11
SMS answers from Ben Fry
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Information Design
Ben Fry employs design to help make complex data more understandable and accessible. He answers SMS questions sent during Design Indaba.
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9 Mar 11
Making faces
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Fashion & Jewellery Design
Have you seen these faces around Cape Town, or have you seen the FACT bags that tell a little story about life in the townships?
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27 Feb 11
Talking creative entrepreneurship at DI2011
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Creative Economy
Jody Aufrichtig, Nicholas Ferguson, Jen Bilik, Brad Armitage and Rui Esteves turn creativity into commerce.
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7 Feb 11
Fibra Design Studio
Fibra is a Brazilian sustainable design studio comprising four university peers: Bernardo Ferracioli, Pedro Themoteo, Bruno Temer and Thiago Maia.
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6 Feb 11
Hugh Masekela
Born in 1939, South African trumpeter, bandleader, composer and lyricist, Hugh Masekela, is loved by jazz, bebop, funk and Afrobeat fans the world over.
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6 Feb 11
Lindsay Kinkade
Lindsay Kinkade is a teacher, designer, artist and interested in public engagement, public policy design collaborations and data visualisation.
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6 Feb 11
Delicious food market at DI2011 Expo
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Architecture & Interiors
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Food Design
Look forward to a delicious and high-quality food market experience at Design Indaba Expo from 25 to 27 February 2011.
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25 Jan 11
Oprah's touch
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Architecture & Interiors
With donor funding from Oprah's Angel Network, East Coast Architects turned a primary school into a beacon of hope for a community.
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25 Jan 11
Christophe Egret
Christophe Egret is an architect with 20 years experience on local and international projects.
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13 Jan 11
Christophe Egret
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Architecture & Interiors
Christophe Egret talks about creating communities and generosity in architecture.
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12 Jan 11
226 Hollywood Road
Design News
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Architecture & Interiors
Studioilse's TwoTwoSix project in Hong Kong addresses real life, then upgrades it.
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10 Jan 11
Pedro Reyes
Pedro Reyes is a Mexican artist who crosses the boundaries of the worlds of design, film, architecture and pedagogy.
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22 Dec 10
Kiran Bir Sethi
Kiran Bir Sethi is the founder and director of The Riverside School in Ahmedabad, India, and founder of Design for Change, and aProCh.
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22 Dec 10
Be the change at DI2011
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Design Thinking
She's turning school education on its head and making it relevant in a real world context, through design thinking. Meet Kiran Bir Sethi.
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22 Dec 10
In the bag
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Product Design
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Fashion & Jewellery Design
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Design Thinking
We just love it when things are local (because it's lekker), eco-friendly and street chic, like Give it Bag.
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18 Nov 10
Backyard design
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Design Thinking
Emily Pilloton is enlisting a new generation of design activists through her work as a high school teacher in North Carolina.
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1 Nov 10
Viva vuvuzela!
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Product Design
Creativity knows no bounds and all of that, but this notion really comes to life with ideas for the reuse of the much-loved vuvuzela.
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23 Sep 10
Positive painting
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Design Thinking
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Urban & Landscape Design
A coat of paint can go a long way in making a colourful and empowering difference in the lives of poor communities.
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14 Jun 10
Love of the common people
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Graphic Design & Illustration
The Felicity Project Change your City, Change your Life graphic design competition is starting a conversation around community life.
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10 May 10
Crochet to the moon
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Product Design
Design Indaba Expo 2010: The Moonbasket community-based project generates beautiful crochet items for living spaces.
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26 Feb 10
Style with conscience
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Design Indaba Expo 2010: Lalesso will be showing just what makes them wearable to the likes of Sienna Miller and Kate Moss.
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24 Feb 10
Hope 2.0
Opinion
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Architecture & Interiors
The FIFA 20 Centres for 2010 exemplify how world sustainability can be underwritten by Africa’s bountiful endurance.
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9 Feb 10
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