Design Activism/2012/30 min/Reel № 12.001
ByJohn Bielenberg
John Bielenberg on why thinking wrong is right
I Am Not a Designer/Recorded 2012
A close reading, kept within reach.
John Bielenberg 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 USA in 2012, the conversation is grounded in John'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.
John Bielenberg believes in thinking wrong to do right. Here he discusses his projects that drive positive change.
About the speaker
John Bielenberg
San Francisco/USA
John Bielenberg believes that "thinking wrong" as a means of making the world a better place, through design.
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