ARTS THREAD is proud to be a media sponsor for the 5th consecutive year for Design Indaba.
Our Blog Editor Calum Ross will be in Cape Town to report on the Design Indaba Conference 2018 + much more
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The first 12 confirmed speakers of the substantial 2018 Conference include celebrated and prolific spatial designer Morag Myerscough who most recently reimagined the interior of the Bernie Grant Arts Centre cafe in London. Dutch landscape architect Peter Veenstra, co-founder of LOLA Architects, created the Adidas Campus headquarters in Germany and Cannes Lions award-winning filmmaker Sunu Gonera who hails from Zimbabwe and whose work tells authentic African stories, as seen in the music video he created for Khuli Chana.
Architect and designer Neri Oxman is the Sony Corporation Career Development Professor and Associate Professor of Media Arts and Sciences at the MIT Media Lab, where she founded and directs the Mediated Matter research group. Es Devlin creates kinetic sculptures meshed with light and film for opera, dance, film, theatre, runway shows and concerts while Studio Swine (Super Wide Interdisciplinary New Explorers) is a collaboration between Japanese Architect Azusa Murakami and British Artist Alexander Groves.
The Festival also features the ARTS THREAD favourite section Emerging Creatives, plus Most Beautiful Object in South Africa (MBOISA).
With three full days of engaging speakers, exhibitions and a film- and music festival, the 2018 conference is set to amaze, uplift and motivate delegates to find new ways in which to design a better world. Taking place in conjunction with the world-renowned Design Indaba Conference, the annual Design IndabaFestival 2018 will run from 21 - 24 February 2018 at the Artscape Theatre Centre in Cape Town.
An experiential wonderland of live music, films, Chefs Table dinners, performances and exhibitions, the Design Indaba Festival encompasses the Design Indaba’s longstanding annual Film Festival, Nightscapes Music Festival, and exhibitions such as the Most Beautiful Object in South Africa (MBOISA) and the Emerging Creatives Programme. New to the festival in 2018 are pop-up restaurants featuring renowned Chefs and stand-aloneperformances by headline acts.