African Design/2014/17 min/Reel № 14.001
ByIssa Diabaté
Issa Diabaté on designing the future of urban Africa
A Better Future Through Design/Recorded 2014
A close reading, kept within reach.
Issa Diabaté 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 Ivory Coast in 2014, the conversation is grounded in Issa'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 Ivorian architect believes that designing with a broad vision makes all things possible.
About the speaker
Issa Diabaté
Abidjan/Ivory Coast
Issa Diabaté is the managing director of Koffi & Diabaté Architects and co-founder of the Koffi & Diabaté Group based in the Ivory Coast.
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