Ines De Peuter | Image by Jamie Matroos

Fashion & Jewellery Design/2018/9 min/Reel № 18.001

On cityscapes and soundsuits with future-proofing graduate Ines De Peuter

Embrace the Unknown/Recorded 2018

A close reading, kept within reach.

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The speaker 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 the field in 2018, the conversation is grounded in The'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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Ines De Peuter investigates the relationship between the self and its context by creating garments that adapt to the concrete jungle.