Fashion & Jewellery Design/2010/37 min/Reel № 10.001
ByChristien Meindertsma
Christien Meindertsma on her affinity for raw materials
Let It Out!/Recorded 2010
A close reading, kept within reach.
Christien Meindertsma takes fashion & jewellery 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 Netherlands in 2010, the conversation is grounded in Christien'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.
Her thoughtful exploration of materials such as wool and flax sees Christien Meindertsma creating gorgeously ethical design.
About the speaker
Christien Meindertsma
Rotterdam/Netherlands
Christien Meindertsma explores products and raw materials in unusual ways.
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