Green Sky Thinking: Sustainable by design
Green Sky Thinking, a MarkLives column on sustainability, by Colwyn Elder, Strategy Director at Y&R Cape Town Last month’s Design Indaba offered up the usual healthy dose of inspiration we have come to expect from what is now one of the world’s leading design events; not to mention a notable force behind putting South African design on the world map and Cape Town’s selection... Read More
Design Indaba 2013: Daan Roosegaarde – hacking technology to personalise our environments
By Herman Manson (@marklives) Design Indaba 2013 Well before Daan Roosegaarde (@SRoosegaarde) ever set foot in this country South Africans were already lining up to see if there might be opportunities to collaborate with the Dutch born artist and innovator. Roosegaarde is known for exploring the relationships between technology, architecture and people, as with his Smart... Read More
Design Indaba 2013: Ben Terrett – Designing better government
By Herman Manson (@marklives) Design Indaba 2013 Public design projects have been getting a bad name of late and Ben Terrett, Head of Design at the GDS – The British government’s Government Digital Service (@gdsteam), wants to reverse the trend with GDS. Terrett and his team had been tasked to make tangible his governments’ intention to transform its approach... Read More
TEDActive 2013: Knowing is Obsolete
TEDActive 2013: Knowing is Obsolete by James Yeats Smith, filed from TEDActive 2013, Palm Springs. Tuesday, 26 February Today was the official start of the TED 2013 conference in Long Beach, California that will see more than 72 speakers share their ideas over the next four days. The campus was twitching with anticipation as over 700 Tedsters in Palm Springs descended on the... Read More
TEDActive 2013: The Young. The Wise. The Undiscovered.
TEDActive 2013: The Young. The Wise. The Undiscovered. by James Yeats Smith, filed from TEDActive 2013, Palm Springs. Monday, 25 February After an epic 26 hour voyage I finally arrived at the La Quinta Resort in Palm Springs where the annual TEDActive conference takes place. To describe it as a hive of activity would be a gross understatement; name tags, gift bags and margaritas... Read More
