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Festivals can transform cities by making space for overlooked people and cultures
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Beth Perry and Rike Sitas explore the transformative role festivals can have on a society.
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4 Sep 19
5 quirky buildings that show architecture with a twist
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Architecture & Interiors
From a smog eating building in Poland to a cultural centre in Senegal that cools itself and more.
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16 Aug 19
Biology is the new technology with Silvio Tinello’s grown objects
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“Designers are beginning to realise that they can grow a better future."
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29 Jul 19
Gourmet Grubb makes the world’s first insect-derived dairy alternative
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Leah Bessa takes us behind the scenes at her new pop-up restaurant in Woodstock, The Insect Experience by Gourmet Grubb.
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8 Jul 19
Six designers tackle sustainability from food, waste and even death
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These Design Indaba 2019 speakers are working to design more sustainable methods and products.
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2 Jul 19
This museum preserves Brazil's cultural and craft memory
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The A CASA Museum of the Brazilian Object has dedicated 21 years to preserving the rich cultural history of the Brazilian people.
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1 Jul 19
How fashion adapted to climate change – in the Little Ice Age
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People see global warming as a modern phenomenon, but fashion has a long history of responding to climate change.
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14 Jun 19
The world’s first bio-brick made from human urine
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Its developer wants us to rethink the way we are utilising the Earth's precious resources.
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11 Jun 19
From refugee camp to fashion runway
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Motivated by experiences of displacement, these designers are using fashion to tell their story of war and strife and in doing so, helping refugee communities.
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11 Jun 19
Sand: Overmined and underecognised
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Sand, a resource usually taken for granted, is being drastically overmined, resulting in the destruction of major ecosystems worldwide.
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10 Jun 19
Celine Semaan wants to solve fashion's sustainability problem
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The culture and climate thought leader is working with everyone from the UN to students to tackle fashion's sustainability problem.
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4 Jun 19
Bug burgers and micro-algae buns: the cookbook of the future
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SPACE10 has been cooking up a storm in their Test Kitchen to bring you an unorthodox assortment of meals from the future.
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17 May 19
Shaina Garfield on how we can benefit the Earth after death
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She shared how her project Leaves proposes a sustainable coffin that will help the body decompose naturally.
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16 May 19
Building a more sustainable future
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The architectural and engineering industries need to come up with new, gentler ways to construct future projects.
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14 May 19
Dong-Ping Wong on his ambitious work at FOOD architecture studio
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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.
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1 May 19
Nicole Nomsa Moyo on building self-sufficient townships
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Her thesis project Ukubutha looks at service delivery solutions in Mamelodi, a township in Pretoria.
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30 Apr 19
Dave Hakkens on tackling the planet's waste
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“When I start something I like to start with a problem.”
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5 Apr 19
Dave Hakkens on his mission to help people fight plastic waste worldwide
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The designer behind the award-winning project, Precious Plastic will be back at Design Indaba to talk about his latest work.
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20 Nov 18
Eric Quint on 3M's design-centered mission
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“We are part of an ecosystem, uniting purpose with partnership, that creates meaningful innovations.”
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27 Sep 18
Two urban initiatives tackle housing & energy in Ghana
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Urban development specialist Farouk Braimah's design projects hope to make life easier for the poor.
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5 Sep 18
A New Zealand company is making raincoats out of recycled fibres
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Fashion & Jewellery Design
The Humble Raincoat is made of recycled plastic bottles.
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20 Aug 18
Developed by a Cape Town lecturer, this self-sustaining toilet turns waste into material of value
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The innovative Sanihive took home two major prizes at the recently held UNLEASH event.
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4 Jul 18
The maker of Algiknit talks seaweed fashion and the next stage of biotech
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Aleksandra Gosiewski's work touches on sustainable ways to fix the disconnect within the fashion industry.
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20 Jun 18
Playful enterprise gives new life to old plastic
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ecoBirdy’s eco-friendly furniture is about play, function and sustainable design.
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13 Jun 18
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