Design Activism/2013/39 min/Reel № 13.001
ByJeanne van Heeswijk
Jeanne van Heeswijk on community development by co-production
The Best of the World's Creativity/Recorded 2013
A close reading, kept within reach.
Jeanne van Heeswijk takes design activism 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 2013, the conversation is grounded in Jeanne'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.
Jeanne van Heeswijk believes that "radicalising the local" is one of the most important things in the effort to develop communities.
About the speaker
Jeanne van Heeswijk
Amsterdam/Netherlands
Jeanne van Heeswijk is a visual artist specialising in interaction design. She will be speaking at Design Indaba Conference 2013.
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