The Guardian by Joy Mckinney.

Art & Photography/2014/Reel № 14.001

ByJoy Mckinney

Joy Mckinney on overstepping her boundaries (trailer)

A Better Future Through Design/Recorded 2014

A close reading, kept within reach.

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Joy Mckinney takes art & photography 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 2014, the conversation is grounded in Joy'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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Artist Joy Mckinney touches complete strangers on the streets of New York City – and captures people's reactions on camera.

Joy Mckinney at Design Indaba Conference 2014

About the speaker

Joy Mckinney

New York/USA

Joy Mckinney is a photographer and part of the Pecha Kucha at Design Indaba 2014 Conference.