Design Thinking/2016/8 min/Reel № 16.001
ByVera de Pont
Dutch designer Vera de Pont on making fashion sustainable and DIY
Experience the Wonder of Creativity/Recorded 2016
A close reading, kept within reach.
Vera de Pont 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 Netherlands in 2016, the conversation is grounded in Vera'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.
She believes fashion could be downloadable and open source where designers become facilitators that guide the customer instead of being in control.
About the speaker
Vera de Pont
Eindhoven/Netherlands
Futuristic fashion researcher Vera de Pont explores the relationship between the human body and its surroundings. She works in both fantasy and reality.
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