Nadine Botha
Nadine Botha is an independent research designer preoccupied with how unseen social, political, legal, economic and cultural systems design our objects, bodies, homes, cities, technologies, experiences and knowledges. Her practice brings together storytelling, curating, writing, performance, activism, media analysis, and participatory practices in exhibitions, digital media, events, publications, workshops, journalism, and academia. She is a winner of a 2020 Bio Art and Design Award from MU Hybrid Art House, and was awarded a 2019–2020 Talent Development Grant from the Creative Industries Fund. In 2018 she was associate curator of the 4th Istanbul Design Biennale—A School of Schools. She graduated from the Design Academy Eindhoven in 2017, receiving the Gijs Bakker Award for best Master’s project. She has contributed to numerous books, and her writing has been published widely. While editor of Design Indaba from 2007–2012, the magazine was recognised in the Top 100 Most Innovative Publications in the World.