Design Thinking/2014/2 min/Reel № 14.001
ByThomas Heatherwick, Stefan Sagmeister, Handspring Puppet Company, Porky Hefer, Hugh Masekela
5 goosebump moments at Design Indaba Conference
A Better Future Through Design/Recorded 2014
A close reading, kept within reach.
Thomas Heatherwick takes design thinking as a lens on the larger question the festival keeps returning to: what design owes to the people and places it works among. The talk moves from specific projects toward a broader argument about practice.
Recorded in United Kingdom in 2014, the conversation is grounded in Thomas's own working method — the compromises, the constraints, and the moments where the work taught them something they didn't expect.
The closing turn is characteristic of the archive: less a conclusion than a provocation, handed to the audience to carry into their own disciplines.
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About the speaker
Thomas Heatherwick
London/United Kingdom
Thomas leads the design of all Heatherwick Studio projects, working in collaboration with a team of 180 highly-skilled architects, designers, and makers.
Stefan Sagmeister
New York/USA
Graphic designer and typographer Stefan Sagmeister is the founder of design firm Sagmeister & Walsh Inc. in New York City.
Handspring Puppet Company
Cape Town/South Africa
The Handspring Puppet Company was founded in 1981 by Basil Jones and Adrian Kohler.
Porky Hefer
Cape Town/South Africa
Porky Hefer is a designer, activist and agitator committed to promoting change. Hefer is a creative doer that believes in keeping things simple.
Hugh Masekela
Johannesburg/South Africa
Born in 1939, South African trumpeter, bandleader, composer and lyricist, Hugh Masekela, is loved by jazz, bebop, funk and Afrobeat fans the world over.
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