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Water: On the front
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Design Thinking
What caused a water riot and water-logged Delhi at the same time, asks Pradip Saha.
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1 Aug 10
Home: Good housekeeping
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Architecture & Interiors
Vastu Shastra is the ancient Indian architectural practice of constructing buildings in harmony with nature.
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1 Aug 10
Eco-friendly: Evolution equals...
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Design Thinking
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Design Thinking
The source of Indian civilization happened in harmony with nature. In fact, forests are central to Indian development and progress.
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1 Aug 10
Big in Japan
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Design Thinking
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Design Thinking
A new exhibition in Tokyo interrogates the Japanese relationship with nature and explores ways of redefining Japan.
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11 Jul 10
Vortex vase
Design News
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Product Design
Add Japanese moderation to French flair and the result is lust-have vase that evokes a sense of natural serenity.
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7 Jul 10
Unnatural landscape
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Fashion & Jewellery Design
Johannesburg fashion designer Suzaan Heyns collaborated with photographer Brett Rubin to shoot her Spring/Summer 2009 collection.
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14 Nov 09
Crop share actionism
Profiling
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Design Thinking
Designer Amy Franceschini tells Design Indaba how to turn a keyboard into a pitchfork.
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1 Nov 09
Transhuman metamorphosis
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Product Design
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Interaction Design
Design Indaba speaks to designer Revital Cohen about her design provocations.
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1 Nov 09
Growth and death
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Design Thinking
Artist Philip Ross’s work explores humanity’s relationship with plants.
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1 Nov 09
Ornamental pastures
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Fashion & Jewellery Design
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Design Thinking
Hafsteinn Júlíusson’s Growing Jewellery is a clash of jewellery and gardening, couture and organism.
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1 Nov 09
Crop artist
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Design Thinking
Environmental artist Agnes Denes’s iconic 1982 work, Wheatfield, is revived in London in 2009.
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1 Nov 09
Haldane Martin Pecha Kucha
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Product Design
Established South African furniture designer Haldane Martin discusses his work and inspiration.
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19 Mar 09
But how does nature make you feel?
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Product Design
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Creative Economy
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Design Thinking
An exploration of design inspired by the natural world, the release of Fabiola Reyes’s Nature, by Spanish publishing house Monso is timely.
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1 Nov 08
Ooona Scheepers' timeless automobile design
Inside View
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Urban & Landscape Design
Oona Scheepers tells Design Indaba how nature inspires timeless automobile design.
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1 May 08
Walk on the wild side
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Creative Economy
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Design Thinking
A pro bono campaign by the award-winning Jupiter Drawing Room tells people to take a hike.
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1 Aug 06
Sculpting the Land
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Design Thinking
These works can only exist because of the landscape that they have been sculpted in; they become "site specific".
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1 Feb 05
Summer folly
Opinion
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Architecture & Interiors
CT's topography forms a dramatic and vertiginous backdrop to a delightful glass tree house that's perfect for lofty summer city living.
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1 May 02
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