2015

Festival edition · 2015

Make. Change.

Make. Change. gathers 60 recorded talks from this edition.

Edition archive

Talks from 2015.

60 talks

Design Thinking

2015 · 31 min

Make. Change./2015/31 min

Dominic Wilcox on thinking your way out of the normal

Dominic Wilcox

Casey Neistat never went to film school – he credits his success to this and the “virtues of ignorance”.

Film & Animation

2015 · 33 min

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Casey Neistat on the virtues of ignorance

Casey Neistat

Film & Animation

2015 · 1 min

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Trailer: Casey Neistat on the virtues of ignorance

Casey Neistat

Ng'endo Mukii uses animation to challenge perceptions.

African Design

2015 · 19 min

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Ng'endo Mukii on the re-animation of indigenous people

Ng'endo Mukii

African Design

2015

Make. Change./2015

Trailer: Ng’endo Mukii on the re-animation of indigenous people

Ng'endo Mukii

RCA graduate Kathryn Fleming imagines using the endless potential of biology to create future species with unusual characteristics

Design Thinking

2015 · 1 min

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Trailer: Kathryn Fleming on designing future species

Kathryn Fleming

Design Thinking

2015 · 8 min

Make. Change./2015/8 min

Kathryn Fleming on designing future species

Kathryn Fleming

Italian design duo Studio Formafantasma use talking and collaborating as core tools in its design process.

Architecture & Interiors

2015 · 2 min

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Trailer: Studio Formafantasma on words as a tool for design

Studio Formafantasma

Craft

2015 · 31 min

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Studio Formafantasma on words as a tool for design

Studio Formafantasma

Design Thinking

2015 · 7 min

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Teresa van Dongen on visualising the magic of nature

Teresa van Dongen

Design Thinking

2015 · 1 min

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Trailer: Teresa van Dongen on visualising the magic of nature

Teresa van Dongen

Rosita Missoni takes to the Design Indaba stage.

Fashion & Jewellery Design

2015 · 2 min

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Trailer: Rosita Missoni on a life dedicated to fashion

Rosita Missoni

Fashion & Jewellery Design

2015 · 24 min

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Rosita Missoni on a life dedicated to fashion

Rosita Missoni

Santiago Cirugeda and his team constructed this building using recycled building materials.

Architecture & Interiors

2015 · 2 min

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Trailer: Santiago Cirugeda on self-construction

Santiago Cirugeda

Architecture & Interiors

2015 · 33 min

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Santiago Cirugeda on self-construction

Santiago Cirugeda

New York-based graphic designer Emily Oberman has been working on the title credits for Saturday Night Live for the last 20 years

Graphic Design & Illustration

2015 · 37 min

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Emily Oberman on 20 years of design and redesign

Emily Oberman

Graphic Design & Illustration

2015 · 1 min

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Trailer: Emily Oberman on 20 years of design and redesign

Emily Oberman

Doremy Diatta on how objects affect our emotions

Design Thinking

2015 · 7 min

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Doremy Diatta on how objects affect our emotions

Doremy Diatta

Design Thinking

2015 · 2 min

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Trailer: Doremy Diatta on how objects affect our emotions

Doremy Diatta

Michael Bierut runs us through some of his major projects and the thought processes behind them: a rare opportunity to get into his award-winning mind. Image: The identity MAD for the Museum of Arts and Design, shown on various sets of card. © Pentagram

Graphic Design & Illustration

2015 · 1 min

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Trailer: Michael Bierut on how to think like a designer

Michael Bierut

Graphic Design & Illustration

2015 · 39 min

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From our archives: Michael Bierut on how to think like a designer

Michael Bierut

Senegalese photographer Omar Victor Diop is reviving the tradition of studio photography in Senegal, and recreating portraits of historical African leaders.

African Design

2015 · 2 min

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Trailer: Omar Victor Diop on the tradition of portraiture in Senegal

Omar Victor Diop

African Design

2015 · 14 min

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Omar Victor Diop on the tradition of portraiture in Senegal

Omar Victor Diop

Ackeem Ngwenya designs for the rural people of Africa.

African Design

2015 · 6 min

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Ackeem Ngwenya on design for rural Africa

Ackeem Ngwenya

African Design

2015 · 2 min

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Trailer: Ackeem Ngwenya on design for rural Africa

Ackeem Ngwenya

Stanley Hainsworth on two decades of building distinct brands at Design Indaba Conference 2015.

Design Thinking

2015 · 37 min

Make. Change./2015/37 min

Stanley Hainsworth on two decades of building distinct brands

Stanley Hainsworth

Design Thinking

2015 · 2 min

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Trailer: Stanley Hainsworth on two decades of building distinct brands

Stanley Hainsworth

Design Activism

2015 · 1 min

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Trailer: Tia Blassingame on the texture of racism in the United States

Tia Blassingame

Design Activism

2015 · 9 min

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The texture of racism & slavery in the United States – a talk by Tia Blassingame

Tia Blassingame

Creative Economy

2015 · 2 min

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Trailer: Pepe Marais and Xolisa Dyeshana on how purpose drives creativity and change

Pepe Marais, Joe Public

Creative Economy

2015 · 38 min

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Pepe Marais and Xolisa Dyeshana on how purpose drives creativity and change

Pepe Marais, Joe Public

Burning Man’s founder Larry Harvey describes how the festival of arts is driven by a strange combination of jeopardy and awe

Art & Photography

2015 · 25 min

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The late Larry Harvey on the creation of Burning Man Festival

Larry Harvey

Art & Photography

2015 · 1 min

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Trailer: Larry Harvey on how Burning Man festival created art with a social purpose

Larry Harvey

Naeem Biviji of Studio Propolis talks us through designing in the difficult Kenyan context to yield products that not just good enough for Africa.

African Design

2015 · 1 min

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Trailer: Studio Propolis on beautiful designs produced under tough contraints

Studio Propolis on the importance of designers sourcing materials locally

African Design

2015 · 21 min

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Studio Propolis on beautiful designs produced under tough constraints

Tyler Pratt at Design Indaba Conference 2015

Industrial Design

2015 · 5 min

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Tyler Pratt on designing simple things to solve everyday needs

Tyler Pratt

Industrial Design

2015 · 1 min

Make. Change./2015/1 min

Trailer: Tyler Pratt on designing simple things to solve everyday needs

Tyler Pratt

Fashion & Jewellery Design

2015 · 2 min

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Trailer: Sindiso Khumalo on the love affair with her ancestry through her textiles

Sindiso Khumalo

Fashion & Jewellery Design

2015 · 11 min

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Sindiso Khumalo on the love affair with her ancestry in her textiles

Sindiso Khumalo

Trailer: Selly Raby Kane on otherworldly fashion in Dakar

African Design

2015 · 2 min

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Trailer: Selly Raby Kane on otherworldly fashion in Dakar

Selly Raby Kane

African Design

2015 · 19 min

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Selly Raby Kane on otherworldly fashion in Dakar

Selly Raby Kane

The Workers is a London-based digital design studio that challenges expectations of what is possible in the digital realm.

Information Design

2015 · 2 min

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Trailer: The Workers on the power of digital interactions

The Workers

Interaction Design

2015 · 33 min

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The Workers on the power of digital interactions

The Workers

Nando’s co-founder Robbie Brozin emphasizes the global fast-food chain’s relationship with local South African art and design.

Creative Economy

2015 · 2 min

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Trailer: Robbie Brozin on art, creativity and chicken

Robbie Brozin , Nando's

Nando's founder Robbie Brozin talks to Michelle Constant at Design Indaba Conference 2015

Creative Economy

2015 · 35 min

Make. Change./2015/35 min

Robbie Brozin on art, creativity and chicken

Robbie Brozin , Nando's

Industrial Design

2015 · 1 min

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Trailer: Stefano Giovannoni on how design is an expression of historical events

Stefano Giovannoni

Industrial Design

2015 · 34 min

Make. Change./2015/34 min

Stefano Giovannoni on how design is an expression of historical events

Stefano Giovannoni

"The boy with a fire in his boot" by Carla Kreuser, Design Indaba Conference 2015, Young Graduates Panel.

Art & Photography

2015 · 1 min

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Trailer: Carla Kreuser on why designing by hand still matters

Carla Kreuser

African Design

2015 · 7 min

Make. Change./2015/7 min

Carla Kreuser on why designing by hand still matters

Carla Kreuser

Wieden+Kennedy ad for Nike / Design Indaba

Creative Economy

2015 · 1 min

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Trailer: Dan Wieden on why Wieden+Kennedy will never sell out

Dan Wieden

Creative Economy

2015 · 29 min

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Dan Wieden on why Wieden+Kennedy will never sell out

Dan Wieden

Roy Choi speaking at Design Indaba Conference 2015. Image: Jonx Pillemer

Design Thinking

2015 · 1 min

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Trailer: Roy Choi on food that tastes like LA

Roy Choi

Design Thinking

2015 · 38 min

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Roy Choi on moving on from losing his job to starting a street food revolution

Roy Choi

Content is king but no one explains why quite like Shubhankar Ray, who re-engineered the brands of Camper, Levis and G-Star

Creative Economy

2015 · 2 min

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Trailer: Shubhankar Ray on how brands can survive in the 21st century

Shubhankar Ray

Creative Economy

2015 · 35 min

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Shubhankar Ray on how brands can survive in the 21st century

Shubhankar Ray

William Kentridge on peripheral thinking at Design Indaba 2015

African Design

2015 · 53 min

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William Kentridge on peripheral thinking

William Kentridge

African Design

2015

Make. Change./2015

Trailer: William Kentridge on peripheral thinking

William Kentridge

Dutch designer Hella Jongerius urged the design community to search for greater ideals in design.

Design Activism

2015 · 40 min

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Hella Jongerius: I am a design pastor

Hella Jongerius

Design Thinking

2015 · 2 min

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Trailer: Hella Jongerius: I am a design pastor

Hella Jongerius

The painted hummingbird designed by Michael Wolff for Bovis Homes, an example of a moment of Brinkmanship.

Design Thinking

2015

Make. Change./2015

Sitting on the edge of yes and no

Michael Wolff