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Testing the bounds of modular home design with DD16
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21 Aug 17
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This architecture prototype caters for intrepid voyagers and nomadic fishermen with utmost economy in its design.
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Stefan Diez on the importance of craftsmanship and pushing boundaries in design
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• Duration: 00:02:25
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21 Aug 17
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“Design is always done really outstandingly if it takes little effort to reach very far," says the industrial designer.
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Isabel Mager on how the making of tech devices carry untold human value
Video Interviews
• Duration: 00:02:53
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18 Aug 17
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This designer explores design mechanisms broadly and how they affect culture and way of life.
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Exhibiting photography at roadhouses to celebrate this fading social culture
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18 Aug 17
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Night By Roadhouse brings local and international photography to a wide, non gallery-going audience in Johannesburg.
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Isabel Mager on identifying the human body behind the making of high-tech gadgets
Talks
• Duration: 00:12:04
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18 Aug 17
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What human narrative exists beneath our shiny 21st-century products?
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SaveArtSpace turns billboards into public art canvasses
Design Frontiers
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17 Aug 17
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The initiative aims to empower artists from all walks of life and inspire a new generation of young creatives.
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Talking odd interplay with information and ephemeral tech with Tea Uglow
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• Duration: 00:01:59
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17 Aug 17
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As technology becomes more functional, does it become less human-centric?
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Tea Uglow on the creative unknown and dispelling misplaced confidence in reality
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• Duration: 00:31:26
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16 Aug 17
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Tea Uglow, the director of Google’s Creative Lab in Sydney on her work at the intersection of tech and creativity.
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Diversifying media imagery to include more ethnicities with TONL
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15 Aug 17
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This agency works to arm advertisers and designers with the tools to represent all races in their campaigns, not just one.
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Marcus Engman on the value of curiosity and IKEA’s first African collaboration
Video Interviews
• Duration: 00:03:01
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14 Aug 17
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IKEA's head of design chats with us about their upcoming African design collection created with Design Indaba, as well as the vision that drives his company.
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A 30 foot warship made from plastic debris is hoping to draw attention to ocean pollution
Design Frontiers
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14 Aug 17
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The Surfers Against Sewage initiative is highlighting the world’s largest ocean garbage site.
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Jesper Brodin & Marcus Engman on the start of IKEA’s new African collaboration
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• Duration: 00:08:14
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14 Aug 17
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“We like to work in an open way, because we believe in that way of co-creating things.”
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Dutch artist Thirza Schaap reveals the delicate beauty that can be found in garbage
Design News
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11 Aug 17
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Instead of a bombastic crusade, this project raises awareness of marine pollution in a gentle, considered style.
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Bo-Won Keum on using design to help elevate the voices of prison inmates
Talks
• Duration: 00:11:22
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11 Aug 17
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The graphic designer worked on a monochromatic book that had handwritten book requests and thank you notes from US prison inmates.
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Marina Willer on the importance of creativity in changing the world for the better
Video Interviews
• Duration: 00:03:16
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10 Aug 17
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"I like to use my creativity to change the world a little bit," says the filmmaker and graphic designer.
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The deformed realities of graphic artist Anxo Viscaíno
Design News
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10 Aug 17
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"I would rather focus more efforts on developing art and culture than spending too much time protecting my copyright," he says.
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Desktop bioengineering by Amino Labs
Design News
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10 Aug 17
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The small-scale kits empower the scientists and innovators of tomorrow.
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Marina Willer on why designers should be creating frameworks for accepting political change
Talks
• Duration: 00:29:56
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10 Aug 17
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The partner at Pentagram on Brexit, family, history and the power of design during these changing political times.
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An affordable, open-source home
Design News
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9 Aug 17
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As part of the push toward sustainable design, Studiolada released plans for the Open Source House.
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This new exhibition calls on feminism to be diverse
Design News
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9 Aug 17
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Feminisms x The Arab and Muslim Diaspora to open at London’s Protein Studios.
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Crystal Kung on bringing warm feelings to life through her illustrations
Design News
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8 Aug 17
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The Taipei-based illustrator “I don’t think my drawing skills comes from talent. They come from hard work”.
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The Big Trash Animals project of Bordalo II
Design News
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8 Aug 17
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This Portuguese installation artist creates animal sculptures in urban spaces from the very materials that cause their destruction in nature.
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Holograms from Syria reveals the horrors of war to the average American
Design News
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8 Aug 17
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Asad J. Malik’s augmented reality project communicates the real-life experience of the Syrian Civil War to Western audiences.
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Katy Pyle’s Ballez is the inclusive dance studio you’ve been waiting for
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7 Aug 17
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The New York City-based studio reimagines what ballet can be.
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