Joe Saavedra on robots, alcohol and citizen sensors

Information Design/2011/8 min/Reel № 11.001

ByJoseph Saavedra

Joe Saavedra on robots, alcohol and citizen sensors

What Will Creativity Hold for the Future?/Recorded 2011

A close reading, kept within reach.

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Joseph Saavedra takes information 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 2011, the conversation is grounded in Joseph'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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The Creative Technologist from Parsons The New School for Design uses physical computing to empower people to learn about their environment on their own terms.

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Joseph Saavedra

New York/USA

Joseph Saavedra is product designer interested in exploring the relationship between the human body and environment.