Industrial Design/2014/6 min/Reel № 14.001
ByIan Murchison
Ian Murchison on wooden knives and bendy bicycle racks
A Better Future Through Design/Recorded 2014
A close reading, kept within reach.
Ian Murchison takes industrial 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 Canada in 2014, the conversation is grounded in Ian'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.
This Canadian industrial designer talks about finding the freedom to develop products that question everyday perceptions.
About the speaker
Ian Murchison
Ottawa/Canada
Ian Murchison is an industrial designer and part of the Pecha Kucha at Design Indaba Conference 2014.
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