Product Design/2017/7 min/Reel № 17.001
ByIsis Shiffer
How Isis Schiffer made the foldable bike helmet
Inspiration Is Nothing Without Action/Recorded 2017
A close reading, kept within reach.
Isis Shiffer takes product 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 USA in 2017, the conversation is grounded in Isis'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.
The EcoHelmet made international headlines and won numerous awards.
About the speaker
Isis Shiffer
New York/USA
Isis Shiffer is an industrial designer and founder of Spitfire Industry, a design consultancy in Brooklyn that focusses on sustainability and transportation.
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