Category: Africa Design Lab
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TAPS Challenge
TAPS Challenge is a problem-solving platform and social innovation concept that is being designed to facilitate community solutions design and development. We help economically, geographically and socially excluded communities, design and build technology solutions to their biggest challenges across industries, with a specific focus on STEAM (Sports, Tech, Entrepreneurship, Arts & Manufacturing) to help solve real 21st…
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Africa Design Lab 3
29 September 2018 For the 3rd Africa Design Lab we set ourselves the challenge: How might we step-up from hosting a meetup, to running an interactive learning experience, that makes positive social impact? The answer was a full day Design workshop with members of the meetup community and social enterprise, the Skill Exchange Makerspace, to…
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Africa Design Lab 2
28 June 2018 For the 2nd Africa Design Lab meetup the focus shifted towards social entrepreneurship. There is undoubtedly a drive amongst designers to do work that has meaning and purpose. The question becomes how do we open up this space and get more opportunities to do this kind of work? The answer may just…
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Africa Design Lab 1
Launch, 12 April 2018 Vision We are facing exponential change and tough problems. Africa needs people that can adapt, empathise, collaborate, and innovate. The Africa Design Lab meets this needs by teaching the skills of creative problem solving, collaboration, and making in hands-on interactive workshops. The motivation was to create a Meetup where likeminded designers…