Swiss product designer Christophe Guberan presents as one of Design Indaba's Global Graduates on materials that transform

Product Design/2016/8 min/Reel № 16.001

ByChristophe Guberan

Christophe Guberan on textiles that transform

Experience the Wonder of Creativity/Recorded 2016

A close reading, kept within reach.

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Christophe Guberan takes product 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 Switzerland in 2016, the conversation is grounded in Christophe'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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Swiss product designer Christophe Guberan presents as one of Design Indaba's Global Graduates on active textiles.

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Christophe Guberan

USA/Switzerland

Industrial designer Christophe Guberan is fascinated by the intrinsic features of materials and how he can reimagine their properties and aesthetic.