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Design IndaBar, presented by Chivas, like you've never seen it before!

Festival News > Creative Economy / Design Thinking

Design IndaBar, presented by Chivas, is the creative catalyst for great ideas and connections, formed to the sights and sounds of performance art and music. >

5 Feb 16
Affordable exoskeleton could help paraplegic kids walk, sit or stand

Design Frontiers > Design Thinking / Product Design

The Phoenix, the world’s lightest exoskeleton for the disabled, will be adapted to help disabled children. >

5 Feb 16
Naama Schendar

Multidisciplinary artist Naama Schendar explores identity and individuality through constructed methods of experiencing empathy. >

4 Feb 16
What we're looking forward to at DI2016

Festival News > Creative Economy / Design Thinking

From stimulating speakers, surprise performances and exclusive jazzy tunes, Design Indaba Festival 2016 is set to be one for the books. >

3 Feb 16
Kids taught to design their own superpowers in prosthetics workshop

Design News > Design Thinking / Product Design

NGO KIDmob’s Superhero Cyborgs 2.0 workshop teaches kids about 3D printing and design. >

3 Feb 16
How to get a discounted ticket to Design Indaba

Festival News > African Design / Design Activism / Design Thinking

Three ways to get a discount to Design Indaba – you could save up to R2 300! >

2 Feb 16
Flower House: Bringing the dead to life

Design News > Art & Photography / Design Thinking

Abandoned for 15 years, this Detroit home became an internationally acclaimed art project called Flower House. >

2 Feb 16
Human tissue, smart textiles could follow these 4D-printed flowers

Design Frontiers > Design Thinking / Product Design

Researchers take 3D printing to the next level with printed objects that mimic the way plants move in nature. >

2 Feb 16
Flipflops or gumboots? A hackathon will help African countries communicate weather information clearly

Design News > African Design / Design Thinking

CIRDA is holding a hackathon to brainstorm ways to help African countries improve weather information products, communicating in clear language not statistics. >

1 Feb 16
New men's contraceptive is as easy as the flip of a switch

Design Frontiers > Design Thinking / Product Design

Swiss inventor Clement Bimek created a device that could shake up the birth control industry. >

29 Jan 16
A coat that doubles as a shelter for refugees

Design News > Design Thinking / Product Design

Students at the Royal College of Art have designed a garment that can turn into a shelter for an adult and a child. >

28 Jan 16
Cebisa Mafukuzela

Despite highly different cultures, Cebisa Mafukuzela and Georgina Campbell have come together to celebrate these differences through CROSS.CULTURE. >

27 Jan 16
Engineering Solar Shade: Should we manipulate the climate?

Design Frontiers > Design Activism / Design Thinking

Researchers believe that the large-scale manipulation of the climate could be our best hope. >

26 Jan 16
Phendu Kuta

Unlabelled magazine strives to showcase authentic South African street fashion and style in a hip, edgy way by drawing inspiration from 'Jozi' street culture. >

25 Jan 16
Hilary Cottam on how design can fix social services

Inside View > Design Activism / Design Thinking

Social entrepreneur Hilary Cottam is working to help fix some of the biggest social problems of our time, using design as a tool for deep systemic change. >

25 Jan 16
Pierre-Félix So replaces push notifications with bubbles and balloons

Design News > Design Thinking / Product Design

Pierre-Féliz So has designed Push Revolution, three devices that reinvent our relationship with push notifications through bubbles and balloons. >

25 Jan 16
Hilary Cottam

Hilary Cottam is a designer, innovator and social entrepreneur who pioneers the use of design for social change. >

25 Jan 16
Four tech-savvy African creators launch a solution to high shipping costs

Design News > African Design / Design Thinking

Shypmate cuts the costs of international deliveries and provides income opportunities for travellers. >

25 Jan 16
Lynne Avis

Lynne Avis is the jeweller behind the brand Obtuse, which explores alternate forms and shapes for jewellery. >

25 Jan 16
Wai Architects: Architecture as a tool for addressing social issues

Video Interviews > Architecture & Interiors / Design Thinking

According to WAI Architects, architecture might not save the world but it has the power to make people’s lives miserable. >

22 Jan 16
Carla Latsky

"While Carla appreciates messy art and abstraction, she takes pride in her perfectionism and chooses to keep things clean – for the most part." >

20 Jan 16
Imogen Heap and the future of the music industry

Design Frontiers > Design Thinking / Music & Sound Design

Self-produced singer-songwriter Imogen Heap is an unusual digital diva with rare technical savvy and a personal vision for the future of the music industry. >

20 Jan 16
Smart scooters that run on swappable batteries

Design Frontiers > Creative Economy / Design Thinking / Product Design

Gogoro Smartscooters are the world's first and only scooter that run on batteries that you can exchange when yours is flat. >

20 Jan 16
Soner Ozenc: 3D printing and coffee in Shoreditch

Video Interviews > Design Activism / Design Thinking / Industrial Design

Soner Ozenc is the founder of Makers Café, a maker space-cum-coffee shop located in Shoreditch, London that brings 3D printing into the public space. >

20 Jan 16

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