Alexandra Daisy Ginsberg at Design Indaba Conference 2013.

Design Thinking/2013/32 min/Reel № 13.001

ByAlexandra Daisy Ginsberg

Alexandra Daisy Ginsberg on shaping the future through design

The Best of the World's Creativity/Recorded 2013

A close reading, kept within reach.

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Alexandra Daisy Ginsberg 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 2013, the conversation is grounded in Alexandra'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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Alexandra Daisy Ginsberg uses Synthetic Biology to look at a conflict between a bacterial world of the future and the antibacterial world of today.

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About the speaker

Alexandra Daisy Ginsberg

London/United Kingdom

Alexandra Daisy Ginsberg is an artist, designer and writer investigating futures for design.