Protest, protect, or produce? | Bruce Mau
Design visionary and founder of Massive Change Network, Bruce Mau, (NL) speaking at What Design Can…
What music can do for design | Marcus Lyall
Marcus Lyall is a designer and director who specialises in projects involving moving images, interaction and live…
How to apply design in advertising | Marcello Serpa
Marcello Serpa, Brazil’s top adman, preaches for simple, yet unpredictable, advertisement.
Architecture in Rwanda| Christian Benimana
‘My audacious dream is to create the first African Design Center, because we need to harness…
The enduring power of the auditory image | Rick Poynor
Rick Poynor is a writer, lecturer and curator, specializing in design, photography and visual culture. He is…
Strategies to deal with water (due to climate change) | Tracy Metz
Tracy Metz is a native of California who landed in Amsterdam to become a Dutch journalist. She…
Careful, this pen is loaded! | Zapiro
South African cartoonist Jonathan Shapiro, better know as Zapiro, a sharp critic of political leaders both in…
Music from IBAAKU
Ibaaku, a multidisciplinary artist from Senegal known for his alternative/independent sound, performing on the stage of What Design…
Africa’s burgeoning fashion scene | Selly Raby Kane
Senegalese fashion designer Selly Raby Kane clearly means business when she talks about her work as a force…
Time is ticking, and you? | Christophe Balaresque
Christophe Balaresque on the future of communication, digital or print? ‘This fight is over now. The future…
The importance of culture in war zones | Petra Stienen
It’s too early to declare the Arab Spring a failed revolution, Dutch arabist, author and independent…
Future meets past techniques | MACHINE
Machine is specialized in creating content for music related clients. With a distinctive graphic and conceptual identity, the…
Change is part of the learning process | Kunlé Adeyemi
Kunlé Adeyemi is an architect, urbanist and creative researcher, that explains how he brings demographic, economic, social and…
Violence by design and other stories | MICHAEL UWEMEDIMO
Michael Uwemedimo started three projects in Port Harcourt, Nigeria, to mobilize people, raise the visibility and voice of…
Identity through music and video remixes | Officerfishdumplings
Hatim Belyamani, a Moroccan-American musician and multimedia artist, tries to break the paradigm that we have…
Constructive journalism versus destructive journalism | Eefje Blankevoort
Eefje Blankevoort shares two of her projects and questions why we have the need to create…
A conversation between two designers and a medium | Lernert & Sander
Iconic videos and installations established the name of creative duo Lernert & Sander, the masters of thought-provoking…
Principles of social design | Nynke Tromp
Nynke Tromp analyses the bigger picture of society as a whole to show how design has…
How the creative army changes Africa | Ravi Naidoo
Naidoo founded Design Indaba and aims to make Africa a competitor on the world stage through…
