Design Activism/2013/6 min/Reel № 13.001
ByBland Hoke , Howard Chambers
Bland Hoke and Howard Chambers on cities working for people.
The Best of the World's Creativity/Recorded 2013
A close reading, kept within reach.
Bland Hoke takes design activism 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 2013, the conversation is grounded in Bland'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.
Bland Hoke and Howard Chambers explore how design can transform cities, making them more dynamic and turning them into real community assets.
About the speaker
Bland Hoke
New York/USA
Bland Hoke is a recent graduate of the Transdisciplinary Design MFA programme at Parsons the New School for Design.
Howard Chambers
New York/USA
Howard Chambers is a recent graduate of the Transdisciplinary Design MFA programme at Parsons the New School for Design.
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