Product Design/2017/9 min/Reel № 17.001
ByKaja Solgaard Dahl
Kaja Dahl on exploring the natural essence of Cape Town in scent form
Inspiration Is Nothing Without Action/Recorded 2017
A close reading, kept within reach.
Kaja Solgaard Dahl takes product 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 Norway in 2017, the conversation is grounded in Kaja'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.
She collected samples of soil, dried fynbos, wood, stone and seaweed to distil an accurate fragrance of the city’s landscape.
About the speaker
Kaja Solgaard Dahl
Oslo/Norway
Kaja Solgaard Dahl is a product and furniture designer working with a wide range of products and materials that are all inspired by our senses and nature.
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