Multidisciplinary artist Nene Mahlangu is the 2023 Design Indaba Emerging Creative programme curator. >

The pandemic inspired UK-based artist Oliver Chalk’s move from creating fabric installations to sculpting wood >

Austrian industrial design company Salz tackles water heating in emerging markets with a solar water heater. >

A collaborative design from Barcode Architects and the Bjarke Ingels Group, the Sluishuis residential building slants over the water in Amsterdam. >

SeaPods, the latest innovation from Ocean Builders, imagines a living space that floats in the middle of the ocean. >

Artist and activist Ai Weiwei unveiled his first glass sculpture exhibition at Venice’s Basilica of San Giorgio Maggiore. >

Architect and computational designer Manas Bhatia used AI to imagine a utopian future with symbiotic buildings. >

Johannesburg-based interior architect Daniella Kilpatrick designs steel furniture that marries form and function >

Mishaal Gangaram is a conceptual photographer, visual storyteller and one of Design Indaba’s Emerging Creatives for 2022 >

New York-based artist Michael Mapes creates fragmented portraits out of collected items >

Applications to participate in the Design Indaba Emerging Creatives Class of 2023 are now open! >