Projects

10x10 Low Cost Housing Project

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.

TWENTY TEN merch

It’s the year everyone’s been waiting for and in celebration Design Indaba launched a limited-edition TWENTY TEN lifestyle range.

Construction New Media Awards

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.

African Carbon Trust

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.

Protofarm 2050

Design Indaba invited five designers to look beyond the possibilities and predictions currently in the public domain. Futurefarmers, 5.5 designers, Dunne&Raby, Revital Cohen and Frank Tjepkema each created a unique vision of the year 2050 with increased urbanisation and population, limited natural resources, climate challenges and digital-biological integration.

Design Indaba Superstars

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.

World 2.0

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.

South

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.

Free Range

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.

10x10 Industrial

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.

Design Indaba All Stars

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.