Hella Jongerius

Craft/2007/33 min/Reel № 07.001

ByHella Jongerius

Hella Jongerius handles design with care

Upsizing the 10th Edition/Recorded 2007

A close reading, kept within reach.

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The short version

Hella Jongerius takes craft 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 2007, the conversation is grounded in Hella'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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Hella Jongerius has discovered one doesn’t always need to be too precious about handmade products.

Hella Jongerius. Photo: Markus Jans.

About the speaker

Hella Jongerius

Amsterdam/Netherlands

Hella Jongerius is an internationally celebrated contemporary product designer, born in the Netherlands.