Visible change at DI2011

Speakers at the 2011 Design Indaba Conference share their thoughts on creativity, a better world, design thinking and more.

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Francis Kéré
Francis Kéré
Diébédo Francis Kéré is an architect from Burkina Faso. The focus of Kéré’s drafts are climatic adaptation, low building costs and self building.
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Jen Bilik
Jen Bilik is the founder and owner of Knock Knock, a company that creates smart, well-designed gift and stationery products.
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&Union
Concept developers and brand custodians, Brad Armitage and Rui Esteves have been crafting retail experiences together for over 11 years.
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Mark Shuttleworth
Mark Shuttleworth
Mark Shuttleworth is an entrepreneur who is passionate about cadence, design and quality in open source. He was also the world's First African in Space.
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Kiran Bir Sethi
Kiran Bir Sethi
Kiran Bir Sethi is the founder and director of The Riverside School in Ahmedabad, India, and founder of Design for Change, and aProCh.
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Design Indaba Conference speakers Jen Bilik, Mark Shuttleworth, Kiran Bir Sethi, &Union and Francis Kéré talk about design as a tool for social, economic, cultural and educational change. Imparting wisdom ranging from "be the change you want to see" to "we can make it work in South Africa", they all share inspiring ideas.

Watch the Talk with Francis Kéré

Francis Kéré at Design Indaba 2011
Francis Kéré: African architecture should stop copying the West
Talks • Duration: 00:32:02 • 30 Jun 11
African architecture should stop copying the West, engage the real needs of the people and regard the environment, says Diébédo Francis Kéré.>