Design Indaba 2020

Design Indaba’s Do Tank plans 2021 action, while its Think Tank takes a post-jubilee sabbatical

December 10, 2020

The world’s leading design conference and event, Design Indaba, will use 2021 as a year to plan and execute a number of significant Do Tank projects and launch its new [...]

THE DEPARTMENT OF AUDACIOUS IDEAS A DESIGN INDABA INITATIVE FOR SOUTH AFRICAN TOURISM

March 23, 2020

Design Indaba 2020 marks the 25th anniversary of this flagship platform. It’s a time to celebrate the journey from a humble South African conference to a globally renowned [...]

The Delicate Bracelet judged Most Beautiful Object in South Africa

March 23, 2020

Design Indaba’s annual endeavour to find the Most Beautiful Object in South Africa manifests as a competition open to public votes and an exhibition. The competition [...]

Greening architecture | Design Indaba 2020 Speaker Kathryn Larsen thatches with seawood

February 17, 2020

Doing her bit to green the building industry is the ambition of bio-based designer and architectural technologist Kathryn Larsen. Larsen hails from America but is currently [...]

Building sustainably | Design Indaba 2020 speaker Vukheta Mukhari’s bio-bricks help save the planet

February 17, 2020

A born innovator, Vukheta Mukhari was always going to be at the forefront of human knowledge. The Masters candidate in civil engineering at the University of Cape Town (UCT) [...]

Water course| Ratchu Vaan Surajaras’s climate-adaptive solution to Bangkok flooding

February 17, 2020

When you want to turn flooding into an opportunity, turn to Global Graduate Ratchu Vaan Surajaras. This Thai designer received his Master of Landscape Architecture degree [...]

Rethinking rape kits| Antya Waegemann designs solutions for sexual assault survivors

February 17, 2020

Designer, creative strategist and entrepreneur Antya Waegemann is good at complex community-based problem-solving. Her academic background could have propelled her into [...]

Apocalyptic food| Alexandra Genis’s ‘Atoma’ brings 3-D printed ‘spice’ molecules into the kitchen

February 17, 2020

Critical food designer Alexandra Genis came up with her product Atoma after eating strawberry yoghurt and reading the notice on the label: “contains no artificial [...]

Breaking barriers | Enni-Kukka Tuomala’s designs channel radical empathy

February 17, 2020

Enni-Kukka Tuomala is a Finnish empathy designer and artist based in London. Having graduated from Global Innovation Design Masters at the Royal College of Art and Imperial [...]

Designing for justice | Communication designer Ananya Khaitan tackles social issues in India

February 17, 2020

Communication designer Ananya Khaitan is driven to confront sociopolitical issues head-on in his native India. The National Institute of Design graduate is drawn to issues of [...]

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