Nelly Ben Hayoun at Design Indaba 2017

Design Thinking/2017/48 min/Reel № 17.001

ByNelly Ben Hayoun

Experience designer Nelly Ben Hayoun on colonising Mars with the worms from hell

Inspiration Is Nothing Without Action/Recorded 2017

A close reading, kept within reach.

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The short version

Nelly Ben Hayoun 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 2017, the conversation is grounded in Nelly'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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What did Nelly say about…

In her Design Indaba Conference talk she introduces us to her project called The Life, the Sea and the Space Viking.

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Nelly Ben Hayoun

London/United Kingdom

Known as the Willy Wonka of design and science, experience designer Nelly Ben Hayoun is a director and creator of the impossible.