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Your Street CT winners – Violet's Walk

Do Tank News > Design Activism / Design Thinking / Urban & Landscape Design

The third R50 000 prize in the Your Street CT Challenge goes to Violet’s Walk, a clearly marked walking route for Woodstock with resting benches along the way. >

3 Nov 11
Your Street CT winners – Let Us Grow

Do Tank News > Design Activism / Design Thinking / Urban & Landscape Design

Let Us Grow, one of the Your Street CT Challenge winners, is an urban agriculture solution that proposes converting empty city lots into small-scale farms. >

2 Nov 11
Creative freedom

Design News > Design Thinking

The Freedom to Create Prize Festival, which aims to empower grassroots organisations through the arts, will be taking place in Cape Town this November. >

1 Nov 11
Your Street CT winners – Urban Mosaic

Do Tank News > Design Thinking / Urban & Landscape Design / Design Activism

The Urban Mosaic project, one of the winners of the Your Street CT Challenge, will be helping to prevent shack fires with a fire-retardant paint. >

31 Oct 11
Secure your spot and save

Festival News > Design Thinking

Get ready for the Design Indaba Conference 2012 in Cape Town and the Young Designers Simulcast, in Cape Town and Johannesburg. Book now to ensure your discount! >

31 Oct 11
It's all, yellow!

Design News > Design Thinking

In a first for the African continent, Cape Town has been named the World Design Capital 2014. >

26 Oct 11
Bright ideas

Reviews > Design Thinking

Coffee, tea, copper, iron, Feminism, Marxism, arable farming, banking and more. Here's a look at 50 ideas that changed humanity. >

24 Oct 11
Green as glass

Design News > Design Thinking

Glasshouse is the ideal urban greenhouse, and it doubles up as a functional pendant lamp. >

13 Oct 11
Revital Cohen on how technology affects the human body

Talks > Design Thinking / Interaction Design / Product Design

Revital Cohen considers how technology affects biology by focussing specifically on the human body. >

10 Oct 11
Sustainable tower

Design News > Design Thinking

The Bionic Arch by Vincent Callebaut Architects proposes a multi-purpose sustainable tower for the Taichung Gateway City in Taiwan. >

8 Oct 11
Arno Mathies on luxury and industrial design

Talks > Craft / Design Thinking / Industrial Design / Product Design

Arno Mathies talks about luxury, industrial design and the influences in his own work. >

7 Oct 11
Roger Smythe: imagining dreams and ideas into reality

Talks > Design Thinking

Roger Smythe explains that when Masters and Savant Worldwide was established, they wanted to give both their clients and team an incredible experience. Roger Sm >

5 Oct 11
Design Indaba Conference 2011 in 60 seconds

Festival News > Architecture & Interiors / Craft / Creative Economy / Design Thinking / Fashion & Jewellery Design / Food Design / Graphic Design & Illustration / Industrial Design / Information Design / Interaction Design / Music & Sound Design / Product Design / Urban & Landscape Design

Take a minute... and allows yourself a whirlwind tour through the highlights of Design Indaba Conference 2011. >

5 Oct 11
Design Indaba Expo 2011 highlights

Festival News > Architecture & Interiors / Craft / Creative Economy / Design Thinking / Fashion & Jewellery Design / Food Design / Graphic Design & Illustration / Industrial Design / Information Design / Interaction Design / Product Design / Urban & Landscape Design

The craft, the furniture, the fashion, the people, the vibe and so much more... Design Indaba Expo 2011 had it all. >

5 Oct 11
Bamboo electric

Design News > Design Thinking / Urban & Landscape Design

A bamboo bicycle is souped up with a small motor, resulting in a sustainable alternative to urban mobility. >

5 Oct 11
From sea to school

Design News > Design Thinking

Woolworths and Safmarine challenged high-school learners to come up with a concept for turning shipping containers into classrooms. >

1 Oct 11
Sleep easy

Design News > Design Thinking

Leaf Supply's modular cardboard bed was designed for emergency situations, though it can also be used as a stool or table. >

1 Oct 11
Ricky Burdett at Open Book

Video Interviews > Design Thinking / Architecture & Interiors / Urban & Landscape Design

Professor Ricky Burdett talks about Living in the Endless City, a book that gives a comprehensive overview of contemporary urbanism. >

29 Sep 11
Design without use at EXD2011

Design News > Design Thinking / Architecture & Interiors

"Useless" is the theme of the Open Talks at Experimentadesign 2011 in Lisbon from 28 September to 2 October. >

27 Sep 11
From Russia with investments

Design News > Design Thinking

Droog Lab's Fantastical Investments projects explores the contradicting consumption habits of Russians. >

25 Sep 11
Elegantly wasted at London2011

Design News > Product Design / Design Thinking

The Enlightened Waste exhibition at the London Design Festival shows how plastic waste can be turned into luxury designs. >

21 Sep 11
Los Angeles angels

Design News > Design Thinking

A community initiative in Los Angeles turns weapons into angel-like statues that recognises the work of local leaders. >

19 Sep 11
Endlessly urban

Reviews > Design Thinking / Urban & Landscape Design

Living in the Endless City is a comprehensive look at the challenges facing the city of the 21st century. >

19 Sep 11
Field of jeans at London2011

Design News > Design Thinking

What if your jeans could help break down air pollutants from traffic and factories. >

15 Sep 11

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