African Design/2017/26 min/Reel № 17.001
ByDokter and Misses
Design duo Dokter and Misses about the importance of the aesthetic function of products they create
Inspiration Is Nothing Without Action/Recorded 2017
A close reading, kept within reach.
Dokter and Misses takes african 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 South Africa in 2017, the conversation is grounded in Dokter'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.
“Aesthetic fuction is more important. How we designed what you don’t see,” on their wildly popular LALA Surma drinks cabinet.
About the speaker
Dokter and Misses
Johannesburg/South Africa
Husband and wife team Dokter and Misses is a multidisciplinary design company based in Johannesburg.
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