Improv Everywhere

Interaction Design/2011/38 min/Reel № 11.001

ByCharlie Todd

Charlie Todd on Improv Everywhere

What Will Creativity Hold for the Future?/Recorded 2011

A close reading, kept within reach.

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Charlie Todd takes interaction design 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 2011, the conversation is grounded in Charlie'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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Founder of Improv Everywhere, Charlie Todd, talks about creating scenes of joy and chaos in public places to make people smile.

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Charlie Todd

New York/USA

As founder of Improv Everywhere, Charlie Todd creates scenes of joy and chaos in public spaces.