Zimbabwe | Design Indaba

Afrofuturist and speaker alumnus Sunu Gonera returns to Design Indaba 2020 by way of Hollywood

Sunu Gonera returns to Design Indaba to share his unique vision of Afrofuturism and bring the #DI2020 audience up to speed with his stellar career trajectory. >
Nigerian writer Ziki Nelson on his upcoming comic book featuring 15 African artists

"From our perspective, there's no point publishing a Spiderman-esque superhero story. The DCs and the Marvels of this world already do that so well.” >
Entries for the 2019 PPC Imaginarium Awards are open!

The awards are open to artists, designers and architecture students living in South Africa and Zimbabwe. >
Sunu Gonera on finding his voice, afrofuturism and making heroes out of ordinary people

In this opening talk of Design Indaba 2018 that brought the audience to its feet, the filmmaker talks about his career high and lows. >
Sunu Gonera

Filmmaker

The Cannes Lions award-winning filmmaker believes in authentic African storytelling. >
Calling concrete artists: Entries for the 2018 PPC Imaginarium Awards are now open

The PPC Imaginarium Awards is now accepting entries from both South Africa and Zimbabwe. >
This Belgian-Zimbabwean concept uses mushrooms as a bridge when crossbreeding chicken and camelids

What do you get when you combine a mushroom, chicken and a camel? We talk to Koen Vanmechelen and Chido Govera about their planetary community chicken project. >
Koen Vanmechelen’s Cosmopolitan Chicken lands in South Africa

The Belgian multidisciplinary artist brings his biocultural diversity project to Design Indaba 2017. >
The cross pollination of fungi and fowls

A Belgian chicken artist and a Zimbabwean social entrepreneur find ways to work together through chickens and mushrooms. >
Creativity burns across the African continent in Khuli Chana’s new music video

Shot in Ghana and produced by South African producers, One Source celebrates Africanness through collaboration. >
Studio [D] Tale: Design for social impact in emerging economies

We talk to cross-continental architecture and design studio Studio [D] Tale about innovation in the everyday, especially in emerging economies. >
Studio [D] Tale on design activism and innovation within existing systems

Social impact designers Studio [D] Tale talk about innovating within informal economies and interventions in existing, sometimes backward, systems. >
Leaving design up to chance

Origami-inspired game randomises the textile design process, encouraging the creation of new knowledge. >
Studio [D] Tale: A building isn’t always the solution

Studio [D] Tale founders Maxwell Mutanda and Safia Qureshi look beyond the traditional distinctions of architectural practice. >
Maxwell Mutanda

Architect

Multi-talented architect Maxwell Mutanda uses design to address real-world issues. >
Ben Moyo: A photographer without a camera telling the African Story

Zimbabwean-born photographer Ben Moyo broke the mould by pursuing a career in the arts despite a lack of opportunities. >
Dillion S Phiri

Creative Director

Dillion S Phiri is the founder and creative director of Creative Nestlings. >
Safia Qureshi: A project to help eliminate paper cup waste in London

Safia Qureshi talks about her new, chai wallah-inspired project, Cup Club, which aims to reduce the amount of waste caused by disposable coffee cups in London. >
A hut-decorating competition that could give urban homes a run for their money

My Beautiful Home in the rural Matobo district of Zimbabwe is breathing new life into the local tradition of hut painting. >
Catching poachers on a rhino-cam

With only four northern white rhinos left, this design-oriented solution may be the answer to the catastrophic decline of rhinos due to poaching. >
Tales of the Dark Continent

Maxwell Mutanda illustrates surreal scenes of Africa in a series he titled “Postcards”, which he describes to us here in his own words. >
A cross-continental architecture studio with solutions for Harare’s informal traders

The architects behind Studio [D] Tale propose a set of innovative designs to improve life for informal traders in African cities. >
“Zvichapera” by Chiwoniso

This haunting and melodic track was the last studio recording by the late Zimbabwean 'mbira' queen, released this week almost two years after her death. >
"Masangango" by Mokoomba

A swirl of sounds by the internationally acclaimed Zimbabwean sextet that gives traditional Tonga music a rhythmic twist. >

Pages