Clive van Heerden Clive van Heerden on why design must ask more difficult questions of technology

Design Thinking/2012/38 min/Reel № 12.001

ByClive van Heerden

Clive van Heerden on why design must ask more difficult questions of technology

I Am Not a Designer/Recorded 2012

A close reading, kept within reach.

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Clive van Heerden takes design thinking 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 2012, the conversation is grounded in Clive'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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Clive van Heerden believes that by asking really stupid questions you can produce really interesting results.

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Clive van Heerden

London/United Kingdom

Clive van Heerden is interested in research initiatives that identify long-term systemic shifts, and anticipate changes in future lifestyles.