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Floating Futures

Design News > Food Design

Studio Malu explores a new relationship between food, climate and territory >

19 May 26
Something from nothing

Design News > Product Design

Solar Foods’ photosynthesis-inspired process is creating a new future for food. >

20 Jan 23
Food, glorious food

Design News > Food Design / Product Design

Here, we look at all the ways food is taking on new forms. >

28 Sep 20
Li Edelkoort leads with an important green message

Festival News > Design Thinking / Fashion & Jewellery Design / Food Design / Information Design

Futurist Li Edelkoort hosted an inspiring new trend seminar at Design Indaba 2020. >

29 Nov 19
First ever global scientific eating plan forgets the world’s poor

Design Frontiers > Design Thinking / Food Design

A team of 37 world-leading scientists from 16 countries have just released the world’s first ever scientific eating plan, but how inclusive is it? >

11 Sep 19
Could this convenient bug harvesting design make insect-based diets popular?

Design Frontiers > Design Thinking / Product Design

Living Farms is being spearheaded by Austrian multidisciplinary designer, Katharina Unger. >

12 Jul 19
Dong-Ping Wong on his ambitious work at FOOD architecture studio

Talks > Architecture & Interiors / Design Activism / Design Thinking / Industrial Design / Urban & Landscape Design

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. >

1 May 19
The potential future of food is growing all around us

Next Generation > Food Design

Lichen, a cryptogram or type of plant, can be made in several tasty ways. So why aren’t we eating it? >

24 Apr 19
Carolien Niebling

“Food is fascinating because it is an ever evolving substance where development will never stop.” >

12 Feb 19
0.9 grams of brass: A brass paper clip that symbolises a cow’s life

Next Generation > Design Thinking

See how graduate student Adelaide Lala Tam uses this project as a metaphor for the life cycle of a cow. >

14 Nov 18
Architect Dong-Ping Wong to speak at Design Indaba 2019

Design News > Architecture & Interiors / Industrial Design

With several companies under his belt, Dong-Ping Wong’s work represents a new wave of architecture. >

21 Aug 18
Dong-Ping Wong

Architect Dong-Ping Wong is the founder and Director of FOOD, a design firm based in New York. >

17 Aug 18
Gourmet Grubb on making ice cream from insect milk

Design News > African Design / Food Design

Food designer Leah Bessa was part of this year's Design Indaba Emerging Creatives programme. >

3 Aug 18
5 African Internet start-ups redefining agriculture

Design Frontiers > Creative Economy / Design Thinking

It's Sustainable Gastronomy Day, a day that reaffirms that all cultures and civilisations are contributors and crucial enablers of sustainable development. >

18 Jun 18
The WikiCell: Nature-inspired edible packaging

Design News > Design Thinking / Food Design / Product Design

WikiFoods aims to eliminate the overuse of plastic in food packaging. >

14 May 18
How will climate change affect our eating habits in 30 years time?

Design News > Creative Economy / Food Design

Researchers and scientists say we'll need to intensify the use of drought-tolerant food sources such as seaweed and more. >

10 May 18
Playgrounds that feed war-torn Syria's kids in more ways than one

Design News > Design Activism

It’s a healthy space where children are taught how to plant, grow and harvest fruits and vegetables. >

10 May 18
Life Kitchen offers free cooking lessons for people living with cancer

Design Frontiers > Design Activism / Food Design / Graphic Design & Illustration / Product Design

Life Kitchen is extending classes and has teamed up with designers to create a special range of plates, totes, and t-shirts. >

25 Apr 18
How this Cape Town publication is disrupting the way we write about food

Design News > Food Design

“To us, the story of a street food vendor running a successful hole-in-the-wall shop is just as valid as a story about a celebrated chef." >

19 Apr 18
Exclusive pop-up restaurant and gourmet street food to be part of Design Indaba 2018

Design News > Food Design

We're planning a multi-sensory experience filled with sounds, sights, and tastes. >

10 Feb 18
Memory Shop gives a new twist to fine dining

Design Frontiers > Design Thinking / Food Design

The exhibition and dining experience is collaboration between fashion designers, graphic designers, interior designers and ceramicists. >

1 Feb 18
Leah Bessa

Leah Bessa incorporates insects into delicious foods. >

18 Jan 18
The Heat Rescue stove provides practical survival tools for those in need

Design News > Design Thinking / Product Design

Following a natural disaster, this kit can help a group of people keep themselves warm and fed until emergency response arrives. >

6 Sep 17
The inflatable garden that could sustain life on Mars and beyond

Design Frontiers > Design Thinking

This NASA project would see astronauts on a self-sustaining vegetarian diet for longer trips across the cosmos. >

29 Aug 17

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