Deborah Szebeko

Design Thinking/2011/16 min/Reel № 11.001

ByDeborah Szebeko

Deborah Szebeko on tackling social issues with creativity

What Will Creativity Hold for the Future?/Recorded 2011

A close reading, kept within reach.

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Deborah Szebeko 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 2011, the conversation is grounded in Deborah'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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Deborah Szebeko looks at some of the ways that creativity can be used to tackle social issues.

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Deborah Szebeko

London/United Kingdom

Deborah Szebeko is the founder of thinkpublic. She combines design and social entrepreneurship to seek solutions to many social challenges.