William Mapham Speaker Talk

Information Design/2018/19 min/Reel № 18.001

ByWilliam Mapham

How the Vula app is revolutionising the South African healthcare system

Embrace the Unknown/Recorded 2018

A close reading, kept within reach.

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William Mapham takes information 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 South Africa in 2018, the conversation is grounded in William'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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Ophthalmologist William Mapham developed an app that provides aid to rural healthcare workers.

William Mapham

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William Mapham

South Africa

The ophthalmologist is the founder of Vula, a healthcare app.