BRCK's Mark Kamau at the Design Indaba Conference 2018

African Design/2018/18 min/Reel № 18.001

ByMark Kamau

How a small Kenyan start-up is disrupting the way the internet works

Embrace the Unknown/Recorded 2018

A close reading, kept within reach.

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Mark Kamau takes african 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 Kenya in 2018, the conversation is grounded in Mark'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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In his Design Indaba 2018 talk, Mark Kamau talks about how Brck plans to give Google and Facebook a run for their money.

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About the speaker

Mark Kamau

Nairobi/Kenya

Afro-centric UX Designer.