by Herman Manson. We pick five talks from recent Design Indaba conferences that rocked.
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Design Indaba 2013: God, war and the future at Design Indaba
by Louise Marsland’s (@Louise_Marsland) I’ve been attending Design Indaba conferences for eight years and while the speakers and the disciplines differ every year, there are always a couple of speakers that completely blow you away, either in their wonderful delivery, content or total inspiration.
The one thing I always take away with me is hope for the future. For my children, for our industry, for our planet and our very humanity.
The speakers at Design Indaba are carefully chosen to challenge conventional thinking, to push boundaries, to inspire.
I always tell people going for their first Indaba not to judge too quickly, to listen to speakers in fields that are not their own, to keep an open mind, not to make too many meetings at or outside the Indaba, but to immerse themselves in the experience. It will change the way you think about your own business and industry.
These are my best Design Indaba moments of 2013, the speakers who challenged me and inspired me…
Design Indaba 2013: Daan Roosegaarde – hacking technology to personalise our environments
by Herman Manson (@marklives) Well before Daan Roosegaarde 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 Highway project, which aims to create interactive and sustainable roads as part of our future landscapes.
Vehicles generating light through wind technology, dynamic lanes, using photoluminescent paint (that charges with sunlight) to create glow in the dark traffic lanes without the need for street lighting, induction priority lanes that charges electric cars as they drive. Roosegaarde wants roads to be more interactive and poetic as they form an essential aspect of our physical environment but has seen little innovation in the past century.