Design Indaba Young Designers Simulcast 2012

In 2011, Johannesburg’s young designers experienced for the first time the Design Indaba Conference, which was simulcast at the University of Johannesburg (UJ). The interest shown by young Jozi creatives means that the Conference will be broadcast again from 29 February - 2 March 2012 at UJ.

  
Design Indaba YDS 2011 attendees at the University of Johannesburg

Investing in design education and promoting the future of the creative industries are some of Design Indaba’s key commitments. For this reason the Young Designers Simulcast (YDS) gives students and young professionals under the age of 25 the opportunity to attend a live broadcast of the main Design Indaba Conference in an alternative auditorium, at a discounted rate. 

With support from the UJ Faculty of Art, Design and Architecture, YDS will once again be showing live at the UJ Arts Centre Theatre on the UJ Kingsway Campus, Johannesburg. The University’s support for YDS recognises the benefits of collaboration with Design Indaba and the opportunity to tap into global design leadership.   

Bookings are already open for the  Young Designers Simulcast of the 2012 Design Indaba Conference which will take place from 29 February to 2 March 2012. For only R950 per ticket or R1 600 for two tickets, anybody under the age of 25 can experience an all-star selection of top designers, business people and thought leaders.  

Speakers include:

Piet Hein Eek
Eek’s Scrapwood designs have earned him a place among Europe’s most prominent green designers. His work is informed by a respect for materials and appreciation of craftsmanship. Read more…

Urban-Think Tank
Urban-Think Tank (U-TT) is an interdisciplinary design practice dedicated to high-level research and design related to contemporary architecture and urbanism. Read more…

Sissel Tolaas
Tolaas uses various aspects of science, art and design to research and create works that relate to the human experience of smell. Read more…

John Bielenberg
What Bielenberg does best is help people find the courage and the sense of humour to consider whole new, wrong, ways of accelerating positive change in the world. In his career, Bielenberg has won more than 250 design awards, is an AIGA Fellow, has been featured in the ID 50, and teaches at California College of the Arts in San Francisco. Read more…

Clive van Heerden
Clive van Heerden is the director of Design-Led Innovation at Philips Design. Read more…

United Visual Artists
United Visual Artists (UVA) are an art and design practice based in London. UVA produce work at the intersection of sculpture, architecture, live performance, moving image and digital installation. Read more…

Assaf Biderman and Carlo Ratti
Assaf Biderman and Carlo Ratti teach at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where they are Associate Director and Director (respectively) of the SENSEable City Laboratory, a research group that explores the "real-time city" by studying the increasing deployment of sensors and networked hand-held electronics, as well as their relationship to the built environment.  Read more…

Eddie Opara
A multifaceted designer, Opara’s work encompasses strategy, design and technology.  Eddie Opara has won numerous awards including a Gold Cube from the Art Directors Club and honours from the American Institute of Graphic Arts (AIGA) and I.D. magazine. Read more… 

Aaron Koblin
Aaron Koblin - famed for his work on 'The Wilderness Downtown' and 'The Johnny Cash Project' - is an artist specialising in data and digital technologies. He received the National Science foundation's first place award for science visualisation and is part of the permanent collection of the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in New York, and the Centre Pompidou in Paris. Read more…

Chris Milk
Chris Milk is an artist known best for his music video work. Most recently he has focussed on advancing technology-generated emotional resonance through innovative interactive video projects. He is a frequent speaker on music videos, technology, art and design, and transmedia filmmaking.  Read more…

René Redzepi
As founder and head chef of noma restaurant in Copenhagen, René Redzepi has reinvented the Nordic kitchen. His contribution to gastronomy has positioned him as one of the most influential and most quoted people working on the international food scene today. Read more…

Hellicar & Lewis
Formed in 2008, Hellicar & Lewis is the partnership between Pete Hellicar and Joel Gethin Lewis. Their work uses art, technology and design to create groundbreaking experiences that take people into the moment to impart lasting memories. Read more… 

FoxP2
Named after the creativity gene, FoxP2 is an independent agency founded by Justin Fox and Andrew Whitehouse in Cape Town in 2005. Within its first six months of founding the agency won a Cannes Lion and has continued its creative success both locally and internationally. Read more…

Keep an eye on www.designindaba.com for more information and further announcements. 

On the Computicket site search for Design Indaba and you will be able to select the JHB Simulcast.