Design Futures Africa
This six-part story series profiles circular designers in Southern Africa.
Once a week, we will publish a new story. Read about the project here.
Meet the designer who is creating a green fashion movement in Zambia
Softly spoken during most of our conversation, Betty Chilonde becomes animated when the topic turns to circularity and the potential of fashion in Zambia. Betty is not only a designer. She...
Fabric of change: Mozambican designer Wacy Zacarias fixes textiles with healing plants
When Mozambican designer Wacy Zacarias realised that most African textiles were not really African but imports from Holland and China, she shifted her focus from fashion design to...
Vanessa Nsona is designing a circular future for Malawi
Vanessa Nsona collects waste, tinkers and toys, prototypes and makes new products. Circular thinking is central to her work in Malawi. “I have always thought of waste as treasure,” she...
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