'If you bring a creative from Tokyo together with someone from Kigali together with someone from San Francisco, and they express themselves in some kind of way'
Design Indaba founder Ravi Naidoo says 'the ultimate renewable resource for us as humans is ideas'.He founded the Design Indaba, but Ravi Naidoo won't define what this world-class event actually is."Design Indaba cannot be distilled down to a single thing," says Naidoo, whose mind works like a labyrinth in motion."We are not the 'how-to' conference. All we can do is share experiences, and people in the audience must make of it what they will.
One of the highlights this year is the launch by global furniture giant Ikea of its Överallt collection.Two years ago, Ikea approached Design Indaba to learn more about the creative doers in several cities across Africa, recognising that creativity on the African continent cannot be pinned down to a"single type, style or moment". Design Indaba chose 10 designers from places as far apart as Abidjan, Dakar, Nairobi, Cairo and Johannesburg.
The chair is simultaneously distinctly African, while being every bit the"less-is-more" product of the Scandinavian sense of design.Another highlight of Design Indaba has a name that says it all: The Most Beautiful Objects in Africa.Ten objects are each nominated by an industry leader, and the public then votes anonymously online for the best one.
We have the advantage of leapfrog technology. Naidoo cites the commercial drones that fly over Rwanda. "So, global innovation for drone use in commercial delivery service happened right here on our stoep and not in San Francisco where it was designed."Just five days after the massive Design Indaba event - which draws more than 12,000 guests to the Artscape Theatre Centre in the heart of Cape Town - Naidoo dives headfirst into YPO Edge, another large-scale global event he is curating and chairing.
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