The annual Design Indaba conference remains a calendar highlight for the local design community. In a bid to gauge its impact and popularity MarkLives.com teamed up with reputation management firm BrandsEye to track social media discussions around the event right prior to, during and immediately after the conference and expo, which took place at the Cape Town International Convention Centre in early March 2012.
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Magazine covers we love (this week)!
MarkLives.com runs a regular slot featuring the best local and international magazine covers every week. We recognise well thought out, powerful and interesting (and hopefully all three in one) magazine covers and celebrate the mix of pragmatism, creativity and personal taste that created each of them. By media bloggerMediaSlutZA.
Shit is trending at Design Indaba
“Do shit that matters,” declared Bielenberg in the second presentation of Design Indaba 2012. His sentiments echoing the closing refrain of last year’s penultimate speaker, Robert Wong from Google, who beseeched: “Do epic shit.”
SENSEable cities
Carlo Ratti and Assaf Biderman head up the SENSEable City Laboratory, a research initiative at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), where they study the built environment through deployment of sensors and hand-held electronics.
Andrew Shoben on how a ‘design capital’ should view public art
Andrew Shoben makes art in public spaces. His artists’collective, greyworld, has become known for creating artwork in mostly urban spaces that resonates with many rather than an ‘arty’ few.
Clive van Heerden sees the ‘far-future’ of design
by Herman Manson Clive van Heerden is the senior director of Design-Led Innovation at Philips Design. In its simplest terms, Van Heerden and his team researches how socio-cultural and technology shifts only just emerging today might shape society and the way we live ten or twenty years from now. In 2007, the team’s work on …
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An architect’s manifesto
People are expecting real change real fast. This is true for the Middle East and North Africa. It’s also true here at the Southernmost point of Africa. Urban environments that imprison and entrench poverty rather than provide economic mobility has immense socio-economic and cultural ramifications for an increasingly urbanised nation.
Interaction design with Hellicar & Lewis
Hellicar & Lewis is the interaction design partnership between Pete Hellicar and Joel Gethin Lewis.
Design Indaba 2012: Find courage and leave the Wookie pant-less
by Herman Manson Find courage. To leave the Wookie pant-less. To think wrong, and be right about it, to capture a sense of place in otherwise mundane spaces, to give when its not something your trade is known for, to order cities from the informal rather than the formal city. And to enjoy doing it. …
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A collaborative approach to architecture
The 1965 exhibition Architecture Without Architects, shown at the Museum of Modern Art, and the accompanying book Architecture Without Architects: A Short Introduction to Non-pedigreed Architecture by Bernard Rudofsky, provided a unique view into what Rudofsky defined as “communal vernacular,” “anonymous,” “spontaneous,” “indigenous,” “rural,” “non-formal,” “non-classified,” or “non-pedigreed” architecture.