Design Activism/2017/20 min/Reel № 17.001
ByChris Sheldrick
Chris Sheldrick’s what3words is redefining the global address system
Inspiration Is Nothing Without Action/Recorded 2017
A close reading, kept within reach.
Chris Sheldrick 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 United Kingdom in 2017, the conversation is grounded in Chris'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.
Making the world a less frustrating, more efficient and safer place.
About the speaker
Chris Sheldrick
London/United Kingdom
Chris Sheldrick is the founder of what3words, an addressing app that assigns a sequence of three simple words to any location in the world.
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