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Paste
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Urban & Landscape Design
"Paste" is a community art project that takes creativity out the gallery and onto the streets of Cape Town and Khayelitsha.
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8 Sep 11
Street lights
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Urban & Landscape Design
sTREEt is a modular system that serves the multiple purpose of being street lights, shade, shelter and public benches, all in one.
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6 Sep 11
(In)formal connections
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Architecture & Interiors
Jorge Mario Jáuregui works to integrate Rio de Janeiro’s favelas with the formal city, using articulation through public spaces.
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15 Aug 11
Of war reborn
Opinion
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Urban & Landscape Design
While the remnants of 25 years of civil war clings to the urban fabric of Beirut, the city has managed to reinvent itself slowly.
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15 Aug 11
Wooster Collective and Faith47 on street art
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Urban & Landscape Design
Street art is about activism and intervention and should be embraced and celebrated, says Wooster Collective and Faith47.
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12 Apr 11
Below the city surface
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Urban & Landscape Design
The third installment in Gary Hustwit's design documentary film trilogy, Urbanized, takes a look at cities as dynamic urban spaces.
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9 Aug 10
Wooster Collective answers all at DI2010
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Creative Economy
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Urban & Landscape Design
“Why would an artist risk arrest in order to create?” asked Mark and Sara Schiller of the Wooster Collective.
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30 Mar 10
Mokena Makeka answers all at DI2010
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Architecture & Interiors
“Is it possible to change people by changing buildings?” - architect Mokena Makeka evoked a higher consciousness around public space.
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17 Mar 10
Igneous Concrete
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17 Nov 09
Space explorer
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Product Design
Frank Tjepkema tells Design Indaba about the new frontiers of design.
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1 Nov 09
Public art award announced
Design News
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Kevin Brand, artist and educator from Cape Town, scooped the Mercedes-Benz South Africa 2008 Art Award for an Art Project in Public Spaces.
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2 May 08
Along the way
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Creative Economy
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Graphic Design & Illustration
Disturbance Design's contribution to Cascoland, a multi-disciplinary public art project, which focussed on a walking route through Durban.
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2 May 08
Processed space
Opinion
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Design Thinking
Cascoland producer and evangelist, Vincent Truter explains what it means to be one among many.
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1 May 08
The Bubble Project
Profiling
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Creative Economy
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Urban & Landscape Design
Ji Lee has printed over 50 000 stickers shaped like speech-bubbles since 2002.
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1 Aug 05
Magic man
Profiling
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Architecture & Interiors
Architect David Adjaye is a poster-boy for a new generation of designer/architects who pluck at the nexus of media and celebrity.
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1 Nov 04
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