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Informal is the new normal with activist architect Alfredo Brillembourg

Conference Talks • Duration: 00:43:27 • 11 Nov 16

Venezuelan architect Alfredo Brillembourg shares his thoughts on a new urban toolbox that can help us change the way growing cities are being organised. >
Vera de Pont: DIY fashion – only scissors required

Interviews • Duration: 00:00:00 • 4 Nov 16

Dutch design graduate Vera de Pont is trying to bridge the gap between designer and consumer with fashion garments that are DIY and open source. >
Hilary Cottam: Fixing social services through design

Interviews • Duration: 00:01:48 • 21 Oct 16

Hilary Cottam, a social entrepreneur and "accidental designer" from the UK, talks about how design and technology can be used to fix serious social problems. >
Redesigning the British Welfare State with Hilary Cottam

Conference Talks • Duration: 00:32:18 • 21 Oct 16

British social entrepreneur Hilary Cottam is working to innovate and update the Welfare State. >
The craft of image creation with W&N Studios

Conference Talks • Duration: 00:48:40 • 11 Oct 16

Warren Du Preez and Nick Thorton Jones are London-based image makers, artists and film makers who've worked with Bjork, Alexander McQueen and Iris Van Herpen. >
The Great Circle: Artistic representations of drone culture in Dar es Salaam

Creative Work • 7 Oct 16

South African artist Francois Knoetze's investigates drone culture, surveillance and mapping in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania with his project The Great Circle. >
Elena Arzak: Flavours of the Basque region

Interviews • Duration: 00:02:18 • 5 Oct 16

Elena Arzak is a world-renowned chef, widely acknowledged to be one of the most pioneering female chefs in history. Here she talks about her love of flavour. >
NB Studio on being brave, bold and creatively courageous

Conference Talks • Duration: 00:25:45 • 30 Sep 16

London-based creative agency NB Studio created a theatrical only-at-Design Indaba experience with a play that reveals the tensions at a design pitch. >
Yogita Agrawal on design for impact in India

Conference Talks • Duration: 00:06:35 • 22 Sep 16

Design Indaba Global Graduate Yogita Agrawal shares two of her projects: a wearable that uses human movement to power a light and a soap pen to improve hygiene. >
Erik Kessels: In advertising, ideas are more important than craft

Interviews • Duration: 00:04:13 • 15 Sep 16

Erik Kessels believes that in advertising, ideas are more important than craft and that to stay creatively stimulated you have to be a hybrid. >
Lava Lab on the millennial renaissance

Conference Talks • Duration: 00:32:57 • 9 Sep 16

Members of Amsterdam-based studio Lava Lab, Cecilia Martin and Klasien van de Zandschulp are risk takers with a deliberately disruptive approach to work. >
Design Indaba announces Senegalese fashion designer Selly Raby Kane as creative director

Design Indaba News • 7 Sep 16

For the first time in the event’s 21-year history, the 2017 Design Indaba Festival is taking on an external creative director in the form of Selly Raby Kane. >
Snask on the power of provocative branding

Conference Talks • Duration: 00:38:22 • 23 Aug 16

Stockholm-based creative agency Snask is known for rockstar-inspired, pink, provocative designs. >
How Far From Home on over 100 000 kilometres of creative enlightenment

Conference Talks • Duration: 00:29:32 • 10 Aug 16

South Africans Chanel Cartell and Stevo Dirnberger abandoned the comforts of home to reinvigorate their creativity. >
Frederico Gelli: Branding and the shared-value perspective

Interviews • Duration: 00:00:00 • 27 Jul 16

For co-founder of Tátil Design Fred Gelli, branding can be both sustainable and of value to the consumer. >
Christophe Guberan on textiles that transform

Conference Talks • Duration: 00:07:53 • 26 Jul 16

Swiss product designer Christophe Guberan presents as one of Design Indaba's Global Graduates on active textiles. >
Lava Lab: Innovation at the intersection

Interviews • Duration: 00:05:09 • 14 Jul 16

We talk to the ladies of Lava Lab about the rise of the hybrid designer and the age of Millenial thinking. >
Basia Dzaman on the intersection of robotics and creativity

Conference Talks • Duration: 00:08:42 • 11 Jul 16

A Polish student from the School of Form in Poznań, Poland has designed a robotic arm that reimagines the lost art of snutki. >
Image Merchants: W&N Studio and James Lavelle

Interviews • Duration: 00:04:56 • 8 Jul 16

We talk to DJ and artist James Lavelle and photographers Warren Du Preez and Nick Thorton Jones about the resurgence of craft and their various collaborations. >
Francois Knoetze on representations of waste and consumer culture

Conference Talks • Duration: 00:07:00 • 5 Jul 16

Performance artist Francois Knoetze's trash monsters are a bleak and beautiful reflection of our consumer culture and the waste it creates. >
A new channel for the vicarious traveller

Creative Work • 5 Jul 16

How Far From Home, speakers from our 2016 Conference, have just launched a video blog for those of us that are seeing the world vicariously through their eyes. >
Sou Fujimoto on multi-layered and conceptual architecture

Conference Talks • Duration: 00:24:17 • 28 Jun 16

Japanese architect Sou Fujimoto’s philosophical body of work explores architecture that doesn’t dictate any particular behaviour to its users. >
Benjamin Hubert on how to redesign the way you work to make a bigger, better impact

Conference Talks • Duration: 00:39:34 • 21 Jun 16

Design by numbers. British industrial designer Benjamin Hubert shares a bit of data about his journey through the design industry. >
Margaret Calvert on work and play over 60 years in graphic design

Conference Talks • Duration: 00:27:34 • 15 Jun 16

South African-born graphic designer Margaret Calvert, OBE is best known for the signs she helped design for Britain's roads. You can now watch her full talk. >

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