Aside from its natural beauty, Cape Town plays host to numerous interesting and unusual architectural projects.

On the silver jubilee of the Conference, we look back at the Design Indaba projects that have transcended the Conference stage

As the Design Indaba Festival embarks on its silver jubilee edition here’s a sneak preview of what to expect on and off the conference stage 

Design Indaba 2018 once again lured a roster of international designers, filmmakers, musicians and other artists to Cape Town. And its spirit of optimism in the face of political and ecological turmoil proved infectious

As the Cape Town festival dedicated to alternative approaches nears, we pick out the speakers not to miss

This year’s event in Cape Town again successfully melded together design superstars with emerging practitioners, but its growing global reputation holds risks as well as opportunities, says John Jervis

Acting, music and dance were all in the mix at a design conference in Cape Town that refuses to categorise and define the limits of creativity, says Debika Ray

Artscape Theatre, Cape Town
17-19 February

"There's just too much shit design," the self-proclaimed "design pastor" tells an audience at Design Indaba in Cape Town. Christopher Turner was there

The British designer will speak at Design Indaba in Cape Town this month about his new work, including his recent driverless stained-glass car

International Convention Centre, Cape Town
25-27 February 2015

Each spring creatives from around the globe migrate to Cape Town, as they have for the past twenty years, for a summit that explores how innovative ideas might help Africa

The world’s leading design conference, which brings together speakers from different disciplines and from all over the world, runs from 27 February to 1 March this year.

Since it started in 1995, the Cape Town design conference has grown to attract some of the sharpest minds and most original talents from the worlds of architecture, design and graphics. Here Icon talks to three of this year’s participants.

Overpopulation could lead to food shortages on a global scale, so design duo Dunne & Raby is imagining a future where people digest food in the same way animals do.

The speakers have been announced this year’s Design Indaba conference in sunny Cape Town, South Africa. The three-day event has cultivated a reputation for being uniquely creative, bringing together designers from a vast range of disciplines and backgrounds.