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Architecture & Interiors/2018/29 min/Reel № 18.001

ByJohannes Torpe

Danish designer Johannes Torpe on the power of design to create universes

Embrace the Unknown/Recorded 2018

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A close reading, kept within reach.

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The short version

Johannes Torpe 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 Denmark in 2018, the conversation is grounded in Johannes'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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What did Johannes say about…

To create a universe around our products we actually have to take it out into the hands of the people who have to use it."

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About the speaker

Johannes Torpe

Copenhagen/Denmark

CEO and Creative Director behind Johannes Torpe Studios.