Gebbia conference talk

Design Thinking/2017/33 min/Reel № 17.001

ByJoe Gebbia

Airbnb is tapping into its network to help resettle refugees

Inspiration Is Nothing Without Action/Recorded 2017

A close reading, kept within reach.

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The short version

Joe Gebbia 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 USA in 2017, the conversation is grounded in Joe'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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What did Joe say about…

Co-Founder & CPO Joe Gebbia announces that over 16,000 Airbnb hosts have already signed up to host refugees for free.

Airbnb founder Joe Gebbia

About the speaker

Joe Gebbia

San Francisco/USA

Co-founder and CPO of Airbnb, designer Joe Gebbia changed the way people travel and interact with strangers with his peer-to-peer home-rental startup.