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

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 …