Design Activism/2016/7 min/Reel № 16.001
ByKazuya Kawasaki
Kazuya Kawasaki on biohacking the fashion industry
Experience the Wonder of Creativity/Recorded 2016
A close reading, kept within reach.
Kazuya Kawasaki 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 Japan in 2016, the conversation is grounded in Kazuya'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.
Speculative designer and Keio University student Kazuya Kawasaki grows new materials for the fashion industry.
About the speaker
Kazuya Kawasaki
Tokyo/Japan
Kazuya Kawasaki is a fashion designer and a student in Keio University’s SFC X design programme. He is trying to create a new era of "speculative fashion".
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