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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." >
On building a disappearing city in the Moroccan Sahara

Design Frontiers • 4 Apr 19 • Sponsored Content

"As designers, architects know how to build cities, but our field as a whole has not yet grasped how to make them disappear." >
The whimsical illustrations of Monica Obaga

Design Frontiers • 3 Apr 19 • Sponsored Content

“I would say my aesthetic has always been whimsical because all my favourite media as a child were musicals, cartoons, books, comics and fashion.” >
Wanuri Kahiu on using film to talk about Africans as joyful and radiant

Talks • 3 Apr 19 • Sponsored Content

“I realised that there is more images and more stories of joy than there is of remorse,” Kahiu says of her search for African stories of joy. >
Youngsta: Rapping the stories of the Cape Colony

Design News • 3 Apr 19 • Sponsored Content

We sat down with one of South African rap's busiest and most artists. >
IKEA ÖVERALLT: In the designers' words

Talks • 2 Apr 19 • Sponsored Content

At Design Indaba Conference 2019, the group of African designers share the motivations behind the products they dreamed up and realised. >
Constant, a photo series on pain, love and healing

Design News • 2 Apr 19 • Sponsored Content

“The constant title came about when I had a serious reality check that I was the constant denominator in all my failed relationships." Basetsana Maluleka >
Alexis Peskine explores the black experience through unconventional mediums

Design News • 2 Apr 19 • Sponsored Content

He speaks on his Afro-French heritage, immigration and the global black experience. >
The African crown reimagined

Design News • 1 Apr 19 • Sponsored Content

Inspired by the work of J.D. Okhai Ojeikere, Medina Dugger and GIF artist François Beaurain celebrate the complexity of hair in Nigeria. >
Cross Cultural Chairs examines the role of the chair in our modern society

Design News • 1 Apr 19 • Sponsored Content

"Analysing a chair you can understand the stature of a culture, what kind of materials they used and what kind of techniques they knew." >
On cityscapes and soundsuits with future-proofing graduate Ines De Peuter

Design Frontiers • Duration: 00:08:50 • 1 Apr 19 • Sponsored Content

Ines De Peuter investigates the relationship between the self and its context by creating garments that adapt to the concrete jungle. >
How can storytelling help alleviate the effects of disease?

Design Frontiers • 29 Mar 19 • Sponsored Content

Researchers are experimenting with various methods of engagement to gain insights in AIDS and antiretroviral treatment adherence. >
This Bible-verse inspired building has a unique swan-like design

Design News • 28 Mar 19 • Sponsored Content

The distinctive roof is a pearly white concrete structure with sweeping, futuristic curves. >
The world’s first 3D printed middle ear transplant happened in South Africa

Design Frontiers • 27 Mar 19 • Sponsored Content

We take a look at Professor Mashudu Tshifularo's achievement and other ways 3D technology has helped the medical field. >
One photographer's surrealist impression of mental illness

Design News • 27 Mar 19 • Sponsored Content

Katie Joy Crawford was diagnosed young. This is how she sees her anxiety and depression. >
Abstract Peaces: Redefining mental illness

Design News • 26 Mar 19 • Sponsored Content

Conceptual photographer Tsoku Maela challenges the stigma around mental illness by drawing on his personal experience. >
This device could simplify and reduce the costs of TB treatment

Design Frontiers • 26 Mar 19 • Sponsored Content

An MIT research team conceived a device that would release a month’s supply of antibiotics within the body >
Designer Ini Archibong on merging myth and reality to create The Secret Garden

Talks • Duration: 00:09:45 • 25 Mar 19 • Sponsored Content

The ECAL graduate spoke about overcoming a difficult time, his design process and the importance of fulfilling a higher purpose. >
Four designers are looking to redesign the gynaecology experience

Design News • 25 Mar 19 • Sponsored Content

Yona is trying to redesign the uncomfortable vaginal speculum using human-centred experience design. >
On being a young creative dealing with mental health

Design News • 25 Mar 19 • Sponsored Content

We spoke to past Design Indaba Emerging Creatives to unpack the way creativity and mental health co-exist in their lives. >
Zipline is the small medical drone in Rwanda solving a worldwide logistics problem

Design News • 25 Mar 19 • Sponsored Content

"Health is where we found the connection between something we knew we could do and a problem that needed solving," Zipline's Keenan Wyrobek. >
The bizarre and confounding influence of Dubai on Africa’s emerging cities

Design Frontiers • 22 Mar 19 • Sponsored Content

Design researcher and built environment designer Mathias Agbo, Jr speaks to Nigerian, UAE-based architect Safiya Yahaya on this phenomenon >

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