Design Indaba Projects

South

DI Admin — Wed, 11 Feb 2009 09:55:45 +0000

Description: The SOUTH exhibition, competition and film by the Creative Alliance.

The SOUTH exhibition, competition and film is a celebration of the new creative ethos that has emerged in South Africa over the past decade.

Over the past few years, Design Indaba has witnessed the emergence of a new creative ethos. And with South Africa’s diverse, rich heritage as source material, and inspired by the rebirth of the South African nation, definitions have emerged that move beyond ethnicity, religion, race or language.Read more

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http://www.designindaba.com/south/index.htm

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10x10 Low Cost Housing Project

DI Admin — Wed, 11 Feb 2009 15:01:24 +0000

Description: The Design Indaba 10x10 Low-Cost Housing Project aims to stimulate alternative solutions to housing.

Design Indaba 10x10 Low-Cost Housing offers affordable, attractive and innovative responses to the urgent need to house the urban poor.

The Design Indaba 10x10 Low-Cost Housing Project aims to stimulate alternative solutions to housing. Ten architectural teams, composed of handpicked South Africans paired with international alumni of previous conferences, were challenged with this pro bono project. The objective was to come up with affordable, attractive and innovative responses to the urgent need to house the urban poor. Read more

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http://www.designindaba.com/10x10/

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Design Indaba All Stars

DI Admin — Wed, 11 Feb 2009 15:24:31 +0000

Description: 35 of the most prominent international guests to the Design Indaba Conference are celebrated in one book.

The Design Indaba All Stars book celebrates 35 of the most prominent international guests that we have hosted at Design Indaba.

The Design Indaba All Stars book, published by Interactive Africa, celebrates 35 of the most prominent international guests that we have hosted at Design Indaba and featured in the magazine. Covering the first 10 years of Design Indaba, this book serves as a record of the growth of creativity at the cusp of the millennium.Read more

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10x10 Industrial

DI Admin — Thu, 12 Feb 2009 09:08:13 +0000

Description: The Design Indaba 10x10 Industrial Project aims to revitalise South Africa's manufacturing sector.

The Design Indaba 10x10 Industrial Project matches 10 South African manufacturers with 10 teams of local and international designers.

The Design Indaba 10x10 Industrial Project was conceptualised by Design Indaba alumni Denis Santachiara and Satyendra Pakhalé, and Design Indaba founder Ravi Naidoo. South Africa’s less-than-prolific manufacturing sector needs revitalisation. Read more

African Carbon Trust

DI Admin — Fri, 13 Feb 2009 10:19:26 +0000

Description: ACT addresses the root cause of global warming: the way we live.

The African Carbon Trust is a program of the Design Indaba Trust that aims to assist Africa in its transition to a low-carbon future.

The African Carbon Trust (ACT) is Interactive Africa’s latest contribution to design that positively influences our world and lives. Not content to leave design at the doorstep of the well-heeled, this dynamic organisation seeks to establish a new, democratic design paradigm for Africa and the developing world.Read more

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http://www.africancarbontrust.org/

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Construction New Media Awards

DI Admin — Sun, 15 Feb 2009 15:00:38 +0000

Description: Design Indaba launched the Construction New Media Awards eight years ago.

Design Indaba launched the Construction New Media Awards eight years ago and is currently repositioning and redesigning the format.

Design Indaba launched the Construction New Media Awards eight years ago. This was at a time when creative new media solutions were not being acknowledged by the local creative industries and we sought to redress this imbalance.
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Free Range

DI Admin — Sun, 15 Feb 2009 15:16:48 +0000

Description: Free Range promotes affordable design solutions.

Free Range was born to open a world of design to a market not normally catered for by professional designers.

Spawned by a passion to create quality design at affordable costs, Free Range was born to open a world of design to a market not normally catered for by professional designers.
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World 2.0

nadine — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 12:28:10 +0000

Description: World 2.0 is not about colonising the next continent or the next planet, but about making our own Earth work.

World 2.0 is a blueprint for designing a new, sustainable, environmental, ethical, people-centric, network-interdependent Earth.

Over the past century or more, humanity has been witness and benefactor to unprecedented technological, scientific, medical, social and population growth. In a rampant free-for-all, the newest-new has been embraced with optimistic fervour and development-for-the-sake-of-development has been favoured over caution and wariness. Indeed, it has been frontier country.Read more

Protofarm 2050

nadine — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 08:38:23 +0000

Description: Design Indaba's Protofarm 2050 presentation at the ICSID World Design Congress in Singapore from 23 to 25 November.

Design Indaba presented Protofarm 2050 at the ICSID World Design Congress in Singapore from 23 to 25 November.

Defining farming as the sustainable cultivation of a renewable resource, Design Indaba presented Protofarm 2050 at the ICSID World Design Congress in Singapore from 23 to 25 November.Read more

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Design Indaba Superstars

Caryn — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 12:42:47 +0000

Description: Online competition celebrating South African creativity.

The Design Indaba "Let It Out!" campaign asked every South African from every walk of life and every age to express their creativity online.

As a celebration of the innate creativity in our country, the Design Indaba 2010 “Let It Out!” campaign asked every South African from every walk of life and every age to express their creativity online. The competition sought 11 individuals to represent our national creative team, the Design Indaba Superstars.Read more

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http://www.designindaba.com/superstars

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