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Spanish mural artist, Okuda, uses art to bridge cultural borders
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24 Apr 19
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His murals have transformed degraded and abandoned buildings into unique colourful spaces around the world
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Sierra Leonean artist explores identity and human expression
Design Frontiers
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23 Apr 19
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Ngadi Smart, a photographer from Sierra Leone, captures the diverse ways people express their identity.
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Toyin Ojih Odutola’s portraits show black skin as textured and diverse
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23 Apr 19
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“We have enough about what my skin looks like but what does it feel like?’
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Feyi Olubodun on what international brands get wrong about the African consumer
Design News
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23 Apr 19
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"I argue very strongly that sophistication and westernisation don’t mean the same thing. You can be sophisticated and not be westernised."
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Kagiso Lediga on storytelling, failure and staying true to who you are
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23 Apr 19
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“You need to be honest when you’re telling your story…it has to be a truth from inside.”
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Designer Anne Kiwia upcycles discarded cloths to create high fashion headbands
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22 Apr 19
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“We have enough clothes. The world is full of it. We need to start protecting our environment and stop being needless consumers.”
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On blockchain and art
Design Frontiers
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19 Apr 19
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The framework technology could make digital art less vulnerable to fraud and theft.
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Tech to empower marginalised communities
Design News
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18 Apr 19
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Human rights activist and storyteller Thenmozhi Soundararajan on the power of knowledge creation in the hands of the oppressed.
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Harmonia Rosales is creating new narratives around the classic art paintings
Design Frontiers
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18 Apr 19
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"By creating positive works of art using black women we can begin to deconstruct our power structure."
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Olof Schybergson on the influence of design on our society
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18 Apr 19
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"With the help of technology, with the help of design, we are improving the world".
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Meet the cyborg artists who have merged themselves with technology
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17 Apr 19
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Neil Harbisson has an antenna implanted in his skull that allows him to feel colour, while Moon Ribas has sensors in her feet that allow her to feel earthquakes
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Markus Kayser's work enables collaboration between tech and biology
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16 Apr 19
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“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.”
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Subverting the gendered implications of wearable tech
Design Frontiers
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16 Apr 19
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TELEXST aims to turn the gendered nature of wearable tech on its head.
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Would you put every life decision in the hands of an algorithm?
Design Frontiers
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16 Apr 19
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Max Hawkins has an interesting way of escaping the Internet's social bubbles.
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What is the data behind #MeToo really telling us?
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16 Apr 19
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In her research, graduate Ellie Frymire looks beyond the tweets to delve further into what people are really saying.
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The design flaw in data science
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15 Apr 19
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Artificial intelligence will mimic human prejudices unless we change the way we assess machine learning models
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Keenan Wyrobek on saving lives with drones
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15 Apr 19
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“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.”
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Could the heat generated by blockchain be useful for other living beings?
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15 Apr 19
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With a project called Farm, MIT student Gary Zhang shows that heat generated in the blockchain has many uses.
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Baleka is two steps forward for African robotics
Design Frontiers
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12 Apr 19
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Developed by a team of researchers at the University of Cape Town, it’s a first for the continent.
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SA artist uses cow dung to explore questions on perception and aesthetics
Design Frontiers
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12 Apr 19
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Mawande Ka Zenzile explains how his reliance on intuition has made his work a lot more honest over the years.
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Rodrigo Garcia Gonzalez on tackling the world’s problems with creativity
Talks
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12 Apr 19
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Gonzalez shares his method to coming up with creative solutions to everyday problems.
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Changing the world by design: DUNDEED
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11 Apr 19
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Design Indaba collaborates with the European Academy of Design to solve for the solutions the world needs now.
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(P)residant: Those who don't let go of power
Design News
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11 Apr 19
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"I call them 'les presidents residants' because they never want to leave power once in the seat." – Fabrice Monteiro, photographer, Dakar.
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The eco-friendly benefits of a busted smartphone
Design News
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11 Apr 19
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“This project takes the seemingly catastrophic moment in which the smartphone breaks as an opportunity to redefine the value of the expired object.”
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