African Design/2016/43 min/Reel № 16.001
ByAlfredo Brillembourg, Urban-Think Tank
Informal is the new normal with activist architect Alfredo Brillembourg
Experience the Wonder of Creativity/Recorded 2016
A close reading, kept within reach.
Alfredo Brillembourg 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 South Africa in 2016, the conversation is grounded in Alfredo'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.
Venezuelan architect Alfredo Brillembourg shares his thoughts on a new urban toolbox that can help us change the way growing cities are being organised.
About the speaker
Alfredo Brillembourg
Cape Town/South Africa
Alfredo Brillembourg is an architect and urban designer redefining the socio-economic system to overcome the emergent challenges in rapid urbanisation.
Urban-Think Tank
Sao Paulo/Brazil
Urban-Think Tank (U-TT) is an interdisciplinary design practice dedicated to high-level research and design related to contemporary architecture and urbanism.
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