Tag: Design Indaba 2017

Design Indaba 2017: Nelly Ben Hayoun’s University of the Underground

The multidisciplinary designer is calling for contemporary Willy Wonkas, Robert Rauschenbergs and Marie Curies to disrupt the current educative system

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The soon-to-open University of the Underground is taking on today’s institutions and power structures by redesigning the way in which a post-graduate course operates. Helmed by the palpably ambitious multidisciplinary designer Nelly Ben Hayoun, University of the Underground is “bold, unapologetic and impolite” in its quest to disrupt and democratize the educational system while empowering the next generation of designers. We learned about Ben Hayoun’s …

Design Indaba 2017: Musical Highlights

From total Kenyan creative Blinky Bill to the hip-hop improv troupe Freestyle Love Supreme, our favorite acts from this year's festival

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The domino effect of each year of Design Indaba building upon the last is a welcome outcome indeed. Word is out among the creative elite and as we’ve noticed, it’s not just the roster of speakers that’s become increasingly stronger; the musicians performing at Nightscape this year were top level as well, and a few even bounced between the conference stage and the DJ booth. …

Design Indaba 2017: Sankara Rugs

Nkuli Mlangeni's graphically modern textiles untangle a diminishing handicraft to win the festival's Most Beautiful Object in South Africa award

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Tying together the world’s artisanal past and millennial future is multidisciplinary designer Nkuli Mlangeni, who, at this year’s Design Indaba festival, took home the award for Most Beautiful Object in South Africa with her graphically modern Sankara Rugs. Mlangeni grew up in Kagiso, a township in the Gauteng Province outside of Johannesburg, but spent three years studying social innovation and entrepreneurship in Bern, Switzerland, as …