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Highlights and higher powers at Design Indaba 2018

Maybe it was having a new president, an opening by DJ Khuli Chana, the poetic gifts of Lebo Mashile, the tribute to Hugh Maskela, a spot of rain, but the sense of a like-minded community of shared experience at this year's Design Indaba was palpable, electrifying and exemplifying.

As usual the Design Indaba platform from a thought, to a word, to an action was demonstrated via civic projects, such as the exciting prospect of the greening of the Foreshore's Luthuli Plaza by Rotterdam-based Peter Veenstra and other activations.



The Biz team in Cape Town and Johannesburg are honoured to share with you some of Africa's and the world's leading design thinkers - from business, science, education, tech, biotech, medical, musical, cultural, infrastructural and visual design in the Design Indaba Special Section.

Heartiest thanks to our partners at Design Indaba, the Artscape and all the media, speakers and delegates we connected with this week for what was possibly the best Design Indaba ever.

Read on and please feel free to keep the dialogue going, comment, ask questions, share on Facebook or Twitter, send pitch ideas, Design Indaba blogs, experiences and ideas. We'd love to hear from you.

Visit the Design Indaba special section for more.


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Highlights and higher powers at Design Indaba 2018: The superheroes of design

Terry Levin

Terry Levin lists the highlights of this year's Design Indaba Festival...read
Conference - Day 1
'Best conference in the world'

Leigh Andrews

The 23rd Design Indaba conference, taking place at the Artscape from 21 to 23 February 2018, kicked off with a reminder not to film proceedings and to keep phones on silent. Tweeting, Facebook check-ins and Instagram tagging were allowed - clearly, as it's all about sharing the inspiration... read
'This is Africa's moment'

Louise Marsland

The Design Indaba stage was a cathartic moment for the first speaker of day one, Zimbabwean-born filmmaker, Sunu Gonera, who told Bizcommunity.com that it was a "coming of age moment" for him to tell his own story to his peers and have it well received... read
Seeing the world through a grain of sand

Jessica Tennant

The moment designer Lonny van Ryswyck took her shoes off on the Design Indaba stage, she opened many eyes to see the same thing in a different way. Isn't that what design is really about? read
Speaking in colours

Terry Levin

While admiring the work of Edel Rodriguez and Morag Myerscough at Design Indaba 2018, Terry Levin contemplates if perhaps the value of any graphic design may be determined by how effective it is in influencing a desired outcome, provoking a specific mental or emotional response in the viewer... read
Zach Lieberman's magical world

Sue Disler

Academic, rockstar or DJ? This was one of the questions Sue Disler had for artist and educator - creative coder, Zachery Lieberman in her interview with him on Day 1 of Design Indaba 2018... read
Getting smarter at partnering by design

Jessica Tennant

Brothers and co-founders (or 'partners by design' as they call themselves) Sam and Rob Paddock, CEO and chief of strategic partnerships at GetSmarter addressed Design Indaba delegates yesterday on how partnering at the student level as well as the employee and executive level has not only increased their course completion rate but resulted in the turnaround of the business... read
Thomas Heatherwick on designing with heart and soul

Ann Nurock

For most South Africans, Thomas Heatherwick has become a household name for his design of the Zeitz Mocaa in Cape Town. But there is so much more to this man, which he revealed in his talk at Design Indaba... read
Interview with Sunu Gonera
Bizcommunity chats to Zimbabwian born Sunu Gonera, an award winning commercial director, filmmaker and powerful storyteller, at Design Indaba 2018. View video | More videos
Interview with GetSmarter
Bizcommunity shares a few moments with the iconic GetSmarter founders, Sam and Robert Paddock at Design Indaba 2018. View video | More videos
Stash by Liberty
Bizcommunity spoke with Johan Minnie and Juan Labuschane, head of development for the "Stash" Liberty App at Design Indaba 2018. View video | More videos
The best moments of Design Indaba Conference Day One

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Design Indaba Festival Day One

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Conference - Day 2
Be inspired by problems in Africa

Louise Marsland

Design Indaba showcased the work of Leroy Mawasaru, a Kenyan teenager who is changing the world and showing how Afrofuturism can unfold for the continent... read
'Advice for the African girl child' - Lebo Mashile

Leigh Andrews

Lebo Mashile on African females as the future of humanity, the importance of having a mentor in the industry and honouring the legacy of Hugh Masekela... read
The next generation of fashion is biology

Jessica Tennant

New York-based Fashion Institute of Technology graduate and biomaterials research company AlgiKnit co-founder and COO Aleksandra Gosiewski gave a thought-provoking presentation at Design Indaba on Wednesday on why they, at AlgiKnit, believe that biology is the future of fashion and their revolutionary work in their search for a sustainable product... read
Fashion with a social conscience

Louise Marsland

How Egyptian fashion designer Amna Elshandaweely uses social activism in her fashion to address issues of culture and identity... read
Lebo Mashile on why she keeps coming back to gender and race in her poetry

Leigh Andrews

Weaving her lyrical way through history, the ultimate lyrical female linguist, Lebo Mashile unpacked the power of design language... read
SA's crowd-sourced solution for a global problem

Sue Disler

Dr William Mapham, an ophthalmologist hailing from the Eastern Cape, who conceived the Vula app, whilst working at the Vula Emehlo Eye Clinic in rural Swaziland and experiencing first-hand the difficulties faced by rural health workers in need of specialist advice, spoke on Day 2 of Design Indaba and received a standing ovation... read
Interview with Lonny van Ryswyck
Bizcommunity chats to Lonny van Rysywck, a teacher at Design Academy Eindhoven and one half of the duo that leads the Netherlands' Atelier NL Design Studio, about her involvement with Design Indaba 2018. View video | More videos
Interview with Morag Myerscough
Bizcommunity speaks to Morag Myerscough, one of the leading strucutural designers in the world, about the influence behind her creative structures she made for Design Indaba this year. View video | More videos
Interview with Sydney Mbhele for Liberty
Bizcommunity chats to Sydney Mbhele, the Chief Marketing Officer for the Liberty Group who were the headline sponsors of the Design Indaba 2018. View video | More videos
Interview with Tom Dixon
Bizcommunity shares a few moments with Tom Dixon, a self-taught designer that rose into the limelight in the 80s, about why he spoke at Design Indaba this year, the importance of the conference and the things that motivate him. View video | More videos
Interview with Lebo Mashile
Bizcommunity's Leigh Andrews chats to poet, performer, singer, actress and presenter, Lebo Mashile about why Design Indaba is so important when it comes to it's contribution towards social change. View video | More videos
Design Indaba Festival Day Two

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The best moments of Design Indaba Conference Day Two

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Conference - Day 3
Neri Oxman is naturing our future

Sue Disler

Neri Oxman, architect, inventor, engineer, designer, scientist and founding director of the Mediated Matter Group at MIT Media Lab, who spoke on Day 3, thanked Design Indaba's founder, Ravi Nadoo for letting her be "suntanned by the Mother City's spirit... read
Connecting the unconnected in Africa

Louise Marsland

Design Indaba speaker Mark Kamau is a Kenyan on a mission to connect everyone in Africa, and then the rest of the world, to the internet... read
Es Devlin on moving from thoughts to words to actions, fast

Leigh Andrews

You know you're in for a treat when the final speaker reaches the Design Indaba conference stage, they tend to save the best for last. Here's how 'kinetic stage sculptor' Es Devlin wowed us in sharing how she makes global musical performances more visually appealing... read
Mark Kamau's talk at Design Indaba

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Design Indaba Festival Day Three and Four

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The best moments of the final day of the Design Indaba Conference

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Design Indaba - Expo
Thabiso Mjo's Tutu 2.0 light voted Most Beautiful Object in SA
Thabisa Mjo's Tutu 2.0 light judged has been named the 'Most Beautiful Object in South Africa' by public vote at Design Indaba 2018... read
Pre-Event Coverage
The Goddesses of the past and present (Part 1)

Jessica Tennant

Dutch trend forecaster Lidewij Edelkoort presented her latest trend books for 2019, namely Goddesses (trends S/S 2019), On Safari (activewear S/S 2019) and Spiritual House (home and lifestyle 2019), as part of Design Indaba 2018 at Lisof in Johannesburg yesterday... read
The Goddesses of the past and present (Part 2)

Jessica Tennant

This a continuation of Dutch trend forecaster Li Edelkoort's presentation at Lisof, on her latest trend book, Goddesses for spring/summer 2019... read
Telling stories about purpose-led design

Leigh Andrews

To many 'Design Indaba' is simply founder Ravi Naidoo, but there's a huge team behind the scenes. Meet editor-in-chief Neo Maditla, looking to make the Design Indaba website as popular year-round as the annual Festival... read
#BehindtheSelfie with... Jamie Matroos

Leigh Andrews

This week, we go behind the selfie with Jamie Matroos, deputy editor at Design Indaba... read
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