African Design/2014/Reel № 14.001
ByIssa Diabaté
Issa Diabaté on designing the future of urban Africa (trailer)
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 independence, innovation, volunteer work and personal investment must characterise African architecture of tomorrow.
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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