
Architecture & Interiors/2009/33 min/Reel № 09.001
ByCommonwealth
Commonwealth on bridging the divide
What Can Your Creativity Do?/Recorded 2009
A close reading, kept within reach.
Commonwealth takes architecture & interiors 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 USA in 2009, the conversation is grounded in Commonwealth'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.
Commonwealth talk about the process of bridging the divide between designing and making objects.

About the speaker
Commonwealth
New York/USA
David Boira and Zoë Coombes are two architecturally trained furniture designers who work together under the studio name Commonwealth, based in New York.
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