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Music & Sound Design/2008/39 min/Reel № 08.001

ByJakob Trollbäck

Jakob Trollbäck

South African Design Week/Recorded 2008

A close reading, kept within reach.

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The short version

Jakob Trollbäck takes music & sound 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 USA in 2008, the conversation is grounded in Jakob'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.

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Creativity is largely responsible for the type of lives we live today, which is a good thing, says Jakob Trollbäck.

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About the speaker

Jakob Trollbäck

New York/USA

Swedish self-taught designer Jakob Trollbäck leads the innovative and highly successful Trollbäck + Company.