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Markus Kayser's work enables collaboration between tech and biology

Talks • 16 Apr 19 • Sponsored Content

“The promise of design is to inspire industry to follow suit in the quest for better methods to produce using solar energy and abundant resources.” >
Subverting the gendered implications of wearable tech

Design Frontiers • 16 Apr 19 • Sponsored Content

TELEXST aims to turn the gendered nature of wearable tech on its head. >
Would you put every life decision in the hands of an algorithm?

Design Frontiers • 16 Apr 19 • Sponsored Content

Max Hawkins has an interesting way of escaping the Internet's social bubbles. >
What is the data behind #MeToo really telling us?

Talks • 16 Apr 19 • Sponsored Content

In her research, graduate Ellie Frymire looks beyond the tweets to delve further into what people are really saying. >
The design flaw in data science

Hot Topic • 15 Apr 19 • Sponsored Content

Artificial intelligence will mimic human prejudices unless we change the way we assess machine learning models >
Keenan Wyrobek on saving lives with drones

Talks • 15 Apr 19 • Sponsored Content

“Doctors shared with us their torment at losing patients they knew how to save. They knew the treatments. They just didn’t have the supplies.” >
Could the heat generated by blockchain be useful for other living beings?

Design News • Duration: 00:11:25 • 15 Apr 19 • Sponsored Content

With a project called Farm, MIT student Gary Zhang shows that heat generated in the blockchain has many uses. >
Baleka is two steps forward for African robotics

Design Frontiers • 12 Apr 19 • Sponsored Content

Developed by a team of researchers at the University of Cape Town, it’s a first for the continent. >
SA artist uses cow dung to explore questions on perception and aesthetics

Design Frontiers • 12 Apr 19 • Sponsored Content

Mawande Ka Zenzile explains how his reliance on intuition has made his work a lot more honest over the years. >
Rodrigo Garcia Gonzalez on tackling the world’s problems with creativity

Talks • 12 Apr 19 • Sponsored Content

Gonzalez shares his method to coming up with creative solutions to everyday problems. >
Changing the world by design: DUNDEED

Do Tank News • 11 Apr 19 • Sponsored Content

Design Indaba collaborates with the European Academy of Design to solve for the solutions the world needs now. >
(P)residant: Those who don't let go of power

Design News • 11 Apr 19 • Sponsored Content

"I call them 'les presidents residants' because they never want to leave power once in the seat." – Fabrice Monteiro, photographer, Dakar. >
The eco-friendly benefits of a busted smartphone

Design News • Duration: 00:09:03 • 11 Apr 19 • Sponsored Content

“This project takes the seemingly catastrophic moment in which the smartphone breaks as an opportunity to redefine the value of the expired object.” >
Yuri Suzuki on combining his passion for music and design

Talks • 11 Apr 19 • Sponsored Content

The Japanese sound designer shares how he finds “order in the noise.” >
Tin&Ed on work that fosters togetherness and celebrating the unknown

Talks • 10 Apr 19 • Sponsored Content

“The unknown in our practice is the most fertile place, and we love the unknown." >
Bringing Afrocentric design to Milan Design Week

Design News • 10 Apr 19 • Sponsored Content

Meet the South African designers who will be exhibiting their work for the first time at Milan Design Week. >
Designing a way to build bonds between strangers

Next Generation • Duration: 00:06:53 • 9 Apr 19 • Sponsored Content

Social designer Manon van Hoeckel creates spaces, art pieces and experiences that confront divides between people. >
Here’s how movement can form type

Design News • 9 Apr 19 • Sponsored Content

“The story of movement has just begun and we're really looking forward to where your designs take it.” >
How ostrich feathers are uplifting Oudtshoorn's economy through design

Talks • 8 Apr 19 • Sponsored Content

Pascale Theron's work looks at breathing life into the vulnerable ostrich farming industry in Oudtshoorn, South Africa. >
Urban designer Alice Cabaret on innovation in challenging places like Maboneng

Design Frontiers • 5 Apr 19 • Sponsored Content

"[Maboneng] has also helped to open a very needed debate, in academic and social circles, about urban transformation in complex contexts like Johannesburg." >
Dave Hakkens on tackling the planet's waste

Talks • 5 Apr 19 • Sponsored Content

“When I start something I like to start with a problem.” >
Neri Oxman’s installation exploring the possibilities of melanin

Design Frontiers • 5 Apr 19 • Sponsored Content

Through digital fabrication and design computation, the pigment could sustain and enhance the planet’s endangered biodiversity. >
Sir David Adjaye designs memorial in honour of Hugh Masekela

Design Frontiers • 4 Apr 19 • Sponsored Content

The Masekela family, in collaboration with Design Indaba, will be unveiling a memorial pavilion during youth month. >
David Droga on why he is still optimistic about advertising

Talks • 4 Apr 19 • Sponsored Content

“Linear and logical people make the world go round, but it’s the creative people who make it worth living in." >

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