Topics | Design Indaba

Exploring the connection between aromas and our memory

Design News • 6 Dec 19 • Sponsored Content

“It’s really important for us to make emotion that could differentiate smell in how something makes you feel when you smell it.” >
Antya Waegemann redesigns the rape kit

Next Generation • 2 Dec 19 • Sponsored Content

The 'When No One Believes You' rape kit includes six different design interventions for use by victims, nurses and the police. >
Ignis uses household materials to create a safe, reliable source of energy

Next Generation • 2 Dec 19 • Sponsored Content

Antenna 2019 speaker Tobias Trubenbacher created Ignis to help provide clean and affordable energy to those without access to electricity. >
Camila Chiriboga on fashion that brings dignity to differently-abled people

Next Generation • 2 Dec 19 • Sponsored Content

The antenna 2019 speaker created Veº, an inclusive system of fashion for the blind and visually impaired. >
Using art activism to fight gender-based violence

Design News • 2 Dec 19 • Sponsored Content

Artists and creatives came together for the 'Rise' exhibition to raise awareness about gender-based violence in South Africa. >
Natsai Audrey Chieza is pioneering new models for design and technology that are driven by ecological thinking

Design Frontiers • 2 Dec 19 • Sponsored Content

The biodesigner will be speaking at Design Indaba 2020. >
Sunny Dolat is opening up the space for a more nuanced discussion on African fashion

Design Frontiers • 29 Nov 19 • Sponsored Content

The creative director and cultural producer will be speaking at Design Indaba 2020. >
Li Edelkoort is back at Design Indaba! This time with an important green message

Festival News • 29 Nov 19 • Sponsored Content

For Design Indaba Festival 2020, futurist Li Edelkoort will host inspiring new trend seminars in Johannesburg and Cape Town this February 2020. >
Sum Waste turns waste into functional products like pens

Next Generation • 29 Nov 19 • Sponsored Content

Pratt University graduate Garret Benisch says he wanted to show what happens when one sees waste as an asset rather than a problem. >
The Coral Farm allows you to grow algae at home

Design News • 29 Nov 19 • Sponsored Content

Hyun Seok An's project was inspired by a UN World Food Conference that named algae ‘the most ideal food for mankind.’ >
P Bank is a public toilet facility that offers a solution to the phosphorus scarcity

Design News • 28 Nov 19 • Sponsored Content

P Bank allows visitors to make a donation of Phosphorus, which is currently endangered due to high consumption levels. >
6 clever design solutions for pressing healthcare issues

Take Five • 28 Nov 19 • Sponsored Content

We highlight some of the design solutions aimed at healthcare sector. >
The Sumo Diaper is an eco-friendly and fully biodegradable diaper

Next Generation • 28 Nov 19 • Sponsored Content

The product was created by Luisa Kahlfeldt using a cellulose fiber that is made from eucalyptus wood pulp and brown algae extracts. >
Re:flex is a material that can be reprogrammed using heat

Design News • 28 Nov 19 • Sponsored Content

Dutch product designer Karlijn Sibbel says she and her team wanted to create a material that adapts to changes the way nature does. >
Ghana’s wunderkind Ibrahim Mahama to share his monumental artworks at Design Indaba 2020

Festival News • 27 Nov 19 • Sponsored Content

Media Release: December 2019 >
Zana Masombuka on Ndebele Superhero as a process of reimagination

Next Generation • 26 Nov 19 • Sponsored Content

“Africans need to interpret their history themselves and seek to reinvent Africa according to their own terms.” >
Jack Newbury has designed an inclusive sexual education kit

Design News • 25 Nov 19 • Sponsored Content

The design student says this new kit and curriculum, a first for the UK, is inclusive of the LGBTQ+ community and other types of sexual practices. >
Kathryn Larsen on why seaweed is the building material of the future

Next Generation • 21 Nov 19 • Sponsored Content

Larsen looked to an ancient method from the Middle Ages used to thatch roofs out of seaweed and brought it back to the present. >
Kinya Tagawa on threading humanity into the tech world

Design News • 20 Nov 19 • Sponsored Content

The Japanese designer and engineer will be speaking at Design Indaba 2020. >
Ghanaian artist Ibrahim Mahama will be speaking at Design Indaba 2020

Design Frontiers • 20 Nov 19 • Sponsored Content

The artist and author is famed for draping buildings in materials, like jute sacks, as a comment on our complicated colonial histories. >
Self-taught Mexican artist on creating artwork that speaks to the masses

Design News • 19 Nov 19 • Sponsored Content

“I am totally self-taught, which gives me full freedom of experimentation." >
Kenyan fashion designer Anyango Mpinga on how she uses fashion to inspire change

Design Frontiers • 19 Nov 19 • Sponsored Content

Mpinga tells us how soap operas, dragonflies and sound waves all came together to create the Anyango Mpinga label. >
Nassia Inglessis’ unique approach to interactive installations

Design Frontiers • 15 Nov 19 • Sponsored Content

The designer is known for her innovative approach in transforming design as we know it. >
SPACE10 set to launch research and design lab in Delhi

Design News • 14 Nov 19 • Sponsored Content

“We want to be where the future is...Innovation doesn’t happen in isolation, so we want to anchor our research and design process closer to the people." >

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