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Lonneke Gordijn: Technology that reawakens awe

Talks > Design Thinking

Blending nature and technology, Lonneke Gordijn explores how kinetic installations can evoke wonder, reconnect us to nature, and create moments of awe. >

17 Apr 26
The sound of air

Design News > Design Activism / Industrial Design / Product Design

The Vox Aeris speaker also cleans indoor air. >

30 Oct 23
Crabwalk

Design News > Craft / Product Design

The latest driving tech solves the problems of parallel parking. >

13 Feb 23
Tech that reawakens awe – studio DRIFT's kinetic installations to light up #DI2020

Festival News > Art & Photography / Craft / Design Thinking / Interaction Design

The multidisciplinary studio will be speaking at Design Indaba 2020. >

11 Dec 19
Kinya Tagawa on threading humanity into the tech world

Design News > Architecture & Interiors / Design Thinking / Industrial Design / Interaction Design / Product Design

The Japanese designer and engineer will be speaking at Design Indaba 2020. >

20 Nov 19
The 10-storey mass-timber building

Design News > Architecture & Interiors

Developed by the home of GBC’s School of Technology and created by Moriyama and Teshima Architects and Acton Ostry Architects. >

5 Nov 20
Robyn Agulhas

Robyn Agulhas is a South African streetwear designer. >

17 Dec 19
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Design Frontiers > Information Design

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5 Nov 19
STEAM not STEM: Why scientists need arts training

Design Frontiers > Art & Photography / Creative Economy / Design Thinking

Associate Professor Richard Lachman explains the importance of including the arts into STEM >

3 Nov 19
Tiffany Chu on redesigning the way cities build their transport routes

Design Frontiers > Urban & Landscape Design

"If you’re trying to help a city, you need people who are from there and who are invested in the city over time." >

22 Sep 19
April Greiman: "If you have a good idea there aren't any boundaries."

Design Frontiers > Graphic Design & Illustration

The transmedia artist talks about designing for visual communication in multiple mediums. >

18 Sep 19
CityTree is an oxygen-producing forest in miniature

Design News > Product Design

This compact green wall cleanses the air of pollutants and acts as a sound barrier for congested urban areas. >

13 Sep 19
The Nonument Group is breathing life into forgotten worlds

Design Frontiers > Architecture & Interiors / Urban & Landscape Design

Martin Baraga and Neja Tomšič, of the Nonument Group, and their team of researchers have set out to save the forgotten monuments of the 20th century. >

23 Aug 19
Three fashionable items designed for the differently abled

Design News > Design Thinking / Fashion & Jewellery Design

Grace Jun and her team at the Open Style Lab are creating functional and stylish clothing that considers everyone. >

23 Aug 19
Silicon Valley wants to read your mind – here’s why you should be worried

Design Frontiers > Design Thinking / Information Design / Interaction Design / Product Design

The tech geniuses of Silicon Valley are developing machines capable of reading your brainwaves. >

21 Aug 19
How 3D printing is helping to make music more accessible

Design Frontiers > Music & Sound Design / Product Design

By printing 3D instruments, designers are able to custom-fit the instrument to each musician, foregoing the usual barriers. >

6 Aug 19
Using unconventional materials to create wearable art

Design News > Fashion & Jewellery Design

Shaline Naicker uses photochromic lenses within her work as she focuses on merging technology and fashion. >

9 Jul 19
How these Ghanaian developers are creating awareness around e-waste

Next Generation > African Design / Creative Economy / Design Activism / Design Thinking / Graphic Design & Illustration / Information Design

Ghanaian game developers, Enter Africa, are creating a game that focuses on the issues of safety and sanitation surrounding e-waste dumps. >

19 Jun 19
Roy Allela invents tech that translates sign language into audio

Design Frontiers > African Design / Design Activism / Design Thinking / Interaction Design / Product Design

The Kenyan inventor was inspired by his deaf niece to create Sign-IO, a glove that interprets sign language into speech. >

27 May 19
Freyja Sewell is designing cognitive training technology for the future

Talks > Design Activism / Design Thinking / Interaction Design / Product Design

The Royal College of Art graduate’s work focuses on meditation and developing technology for the mind. >

23 May 19
Blockchain in Africa, the leapfrog continent

Design Frontiers > African Design / Creative Economy

Africa’s embrace of the technology could put it in a position to take a developmental detour. >

6 May 19
This Angolan innovation hub is helping to transform the nation’s creative sector

Design Frontiers > Design Activism / Product Design

We chat to some of the Fábrica de Sabão team about innovation, community upliftment and serving Africa first. >

25 Apr 19
Joy Buolamwini uses art and research to show the social implications of AI

Design Frontiers > Design Activism / Information Design / Interaction Design

The Ghanaian-American computer scientist and digital activist spoke to us during her Cape Town visit. >

25 Apr 19
On blockchain and art

Design Frontiers > Art & Photography / Creative Economy

The framework technology could make digital art less vulnerable to fraud and theft. >

19 Apr 19

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