Design Thinking/2017/12 min/Reel № 17.001
ByIsabel Mager
Isabel Mager on identifying the human body behind the making of high-tech gadgets
Inspiration Is Nothing Without Action/Recorded 2017
A close reading, kept within reach.
Isabel Mager takes design thinking 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 Netherlands in 2017, the conversation is grounded in Isabel'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.
What human narrative exists beneath our shiny 21st-century products?
About the speaker
Isabel Mager
Eindhoven/Netherlands
Isabel Mager is an investigative and critical designer based in the Netherlands. Her work investigates culture and structures of power.
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