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Design Indaba Festival 2018

Every year the Design Indaba Festival curates a pioneering programme of speakers, music artists, film and design exhibitions, showcasing the best of the global and African creative industries. >

6 Oct 17
antenna

antenna is an interactive platform where 20 graduates from around the globe present the ideas that will shape the future. >

6 Oct 17
Design Commons

A deconstructed conference created by Design Indaba CEO Ravi Naidoo and Design Weeks' Kari Korkman. >

6 Oct 17
Two weeks to go before the inaugural antenna event at Dutch Design Week

Next Generation > Design Thinking

Come meet 21 of the young people shaping the future of design >

6 Oct 17
Holograms to be used to help heart surgeons during medical procedures

Design Frontiers > Design Thinking / Product Design

The device will be the first commercial system allowing clinicians a true holographic experience. >

2 Oct 17
Meet five of the young designers who will be part of Antenna

Next Generation > Design Activism / Design Thinking

Antenna is a new platform for the best young designers from around the world. >

29 Sep 17
Olafur Eliasson on label-free impactful design

Video Interviews > Design Thinking / Product Design

“I am more interested in the consequences that my work has than how to label my work,” said the multidisciplinary designer. >

26 Sep 17
Introducing the UnSchool of Disruptive Design

Design News > Design Thinking

“I called it the UnSchool because we undo the damage that mainstream education has done,” says the founder. >

25 Sep 17
Learn to approach design with empathy, says co-founder of Snøhetta

Talks > Architecture & Interiors / Design Thinking

"Just look at people...," says Craig Dykers. "Getting to know their faces helps you understand who you're making things for." >

22 Sep 17
Airbnb co-founder on designing Olympic-sized trust between strangers

Video Interviews > Creative Economy / Design Thinking

Joe Gebbia, co-founder and chief product officer at Airbnb chats to us on the role of design in their success. >

8 Sep 17
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
Cutting-edge graphene paint takes ecological architecture to a new level

Design Frontiers > Architecture & Interiors / Design Thinking

This lime-based coating is quickly becoming an industry standard with its thermal & eco-friendly qualities. >

6 Sep 17
This electricity generating yarn could change the face of wearable tech

Design Frontiers > Design Thinking / Product Design

The carbon nanotube yarn generates electricity with just a tug. >

31 Aug 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
Sir David Adjaye and Tiffany Chu among the nine speakers at the inaugural Design Commons

Design News > Creative Economy / Design Thinking

The deconstructed conference puts global heavyweights in design at the same table as the audience. >

28 Aug 17
Isabel Mager on how the making of tech devices carry untold human value

Video Interviews > Design Thinking / Industrial Design

This designer explores design mechanisms broadly and how they affect culture and way of life. >

18 Aug 17
Isabel Mager on identifying the human body behind the making of high-tech gadgets

Talks > Design Thinking / Industrial Design

What human narrative exists beneath our shiny 21st-century products? >

18 Aug 17
Talking odd interplay with information and ephemeral tech with Tea Uglow

Video Interviews > Design Thinking / Information Design / Interaction Design

As technology becomes more functional, does it become less human-centric? >

17 Aug 17
Tea Uglow on the creative unknown and dispelling misplaced confidence in reality

Talks > Design Thinking / Information Design

Tea Uglow, the director of Google’s Creative Lab in Sydney on her work at the intersection of tech and creativity. >

16 Aug 17
Bo-Won Keum on using design to help elevate the voices of prison inmates

Talks > Design Activism / Design Thinking

The graphic designer worked on a monochromatic book that had handwritten book requests and thank you notes from US prison inmates. >

11 Aug 17
The deformed realities of graphic artist Anxo Viscaíno

Design News > Design Thinking / Graphic Design & Illustration

"I would rather focus more efforts on developing art and culture than spending too much time protecting my copyright," he says. >

10 Aug 17
The making of Taputti and the Sea with Kaja Dahl and Agata Karolina

Video Interviews > Design Thinking / Product Design

We follow the product designer and perfumer behind this scent design project as they epitomise the nature of Cape Town in fragrant form. >

2 Aug 17
Grace Jun on studying human behaviour to sharpen design choices

Video Interviews > Design Thinking / Fashion & Jewellery Design

“Designers should spend more time on things they’re uncomfortable with, particularly if it’s in the sciences of mathematics, engineering and even writing.” >

28 Jul 17
Designing for an inclusive & considered future with Grace Jun

Talks > Design Thinking / Fashion & Jewellery Design

“Less about perfection, but rather a desire to have more options.” >

28 Jul 17

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