Roberto Feo and Rosario Hurtado of El Ultimo Grito on stage at Design Indaba Conference 2014. Image: Jonx Pillemer.

Design Thinking/2014/Reel № 14.001

ByEl Ultimo Grito

El Ultimo Grito on creating a new design ecosystem (trailer)

A Better Future Through Design/Recorded 2014

A close reading, kept within reach.

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El Ultimo Grito 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 2014, the conversation is grounded in El'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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The Spanish design duo talk about how they use their own projects to interrogate how we define design.

Roberto Feo and Rosario Hurtado of El Ultimo Grito.

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El Ultimo Grito

London/United Kingdom

El Ultimo Grito is a London-based post-disciplinary studio, who uses design to explore the social, political and philosophical nature of human relationships.