Industrial Design/2011/9 min/Reel № 11.001
ByDirk Vander Kooij
Dirk van der Kooij on 3D printing and recycling
What Will Creativity Hold for the Future?/Recorded 2011
A close reading, kept within reach.
Dirk Vander Kooij takes industrial 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 Netherlands in 2011, the conversation is grounded in Dirk'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.
Dirk van der Kooij taught a robot to make comfortable chairs using 3D printing techniques and recycled plastic from discarded fridges.
About the speaker
Dirk Vander Kooij
Eindhoven/Netherlands
Dirk Vander Kooij is a product designer, best known for using recycled plastic from old refrigerators to create a range of chairs.
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