Sacha Buliard’s responsive mat lets users connect with their bodies
Sacha Buliard’s responsive mat, Unlearn, provides a uniquely somatic experience for users. Roughly the size of a tatami and made of ecological foam, the mat is embossed [...]
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Space design| Anna Talvi’s microgravity-wear for interplanetary living
Design meets the future in Estonian Anna Talvi’s ingenious range of microgravity-wear, which has been designed with a Mars mission in mind. The Royal College of Art, London [...]
Ad-ulation| Advertising superstar Rick Brim to share his creative process at #DI2020
No idea is too weird or absurd for multi-award-winning advertising maven Richard – aka Rick – Brim to consider. In fact, the Chief Creative Officer of adam&eveDDB [...]
Future tech | Rhizomatiks fuses maths and movement to create alternate realities
The rockstars at Rhizomatiks are already big in Japan – now they’re bringing their experimental collaborations to the stage at Design Indaba’s jubilee conference, from [...]
Natsai Audrey Chieza is pioneering new models for design and technology that are driven by ecological thinking The biodesigner will be speaking at Design Indaba 2020.
Textile dying in the fashion industry is one of the biggest causes of pollution. This is something that Zimbabwean-born bio-designer and researcher Natsai Audrey Chieza is [...]
Chanting biography | Nhlanhla Mahlangu’s rich theatricality comes to #DI2020
Known both locally and internationally for his richly choreographed theatrical productions and his work with South African artist William Kentridge, Nhlanhla Mahlangu is the [...]
Practical magic | Paul Cocksedge’s joyful, people-centred counterpoint to tech alienation
London-based Paul Cocksedge has worked on projects as diverse as a flower-powered light, a canopy for the world’s largest botanical gardens, and furniture that fuses [...]
Inventing is giving| Manu Prakash champions frugal science for low-resource communities
MacArthur Fellow Manu Prakash is no regular scientist. The physical biologist, who holds a BTech in computer science and engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology [...]
Tech that reawakens awe – Studio DRIFT’s kinetic installations to light up #DI2020
If the thought of using technology to reproduce the patterns and processes of nature makes you anxious, you haven’t come across the glorious work of artist collective [...]
Sunny Dolat is opening up the space for a more nuanced discussion on African fashion
The creative director and cultural producer will be speaking at Design Indaba 2020. In fashion, whenever people use the terms “African fashion” they are normally only [...]
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