Isa MBU LA
Duo costume designer and Creative Director Bandile Mbuli and architect Ndabo Langa‘s collaboration - Isa- MBU- LA- is focused on creating resilient and sustainable design through tapping into local ecosystems with a high consideration for traditional practices and innovation. They believe that design is a portal through which one can experience a deeper emotional connection to the work and its purpose. Artistic, inventive, original and visionary Architect Ndabo Langa is founder of DGIT Architects. His architectural practice is committed to exposing disenfranchised communities to the global trends and creating awareness and consciousness to the visual arts in the built environment. He is committed to unlocking Durban’s “immense cultural heritage” as he sees it as a major driver of URBAN REGENERATION. With her comprehensive training in theater-based Performing Arts Technology (Cum Laude) and extensive experience within the international and South African film landscape - Bandile Kokestso Mbuli is a visionary who has integrated a number of disciplines into her costume design and art practise, melding her experience in make-up artistry and art direction, to reveal a multi-faceted body of work fundamentally concerned with sustainable practises and the restoration of dignity through art, activism and education.
“Through design we can expand and empower our living network of collaborators and stimulate inter-generational skills-exchange and conversations vital to sustain our people and our planet.”