Design Activism/2011/23 min/Reel № 11.001
ByKiran Bir Sethi
Kiran Bir Sethi does it for the kids
What Will Creativity Hold for the Future?/Recorded 2011
A close reading, kept within reach.
Kiran Bir Sethi 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 India in 2011, the conversation is grounded in Kiran'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.
Feel it, imagine it, do it and then share it. That’s what Kiran Bir Sethi is urging children to do to make the world a better place.
About the speaker
Kiran Bir Sethi
Ahmedabad/India
Kiran Bir Sethi is the founder and director of The Riverside School in Ahmedabad, India, and founder of Design for Change, and aProCh.
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