Art & Photography/2014/6 min/Reel № 14.001
ByKyla Philander
Kyla Philander on using empathy as a design tool
A Better Future Through Design/Recorded 2014
A close reading, kept within reach.
Kyla Philander 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 South Africa in 2014, the conversation is grounded in Kyla'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.
This South African storyteller, musician and videographer looks to creativity as a positive outlet for violence, hurt and low self-esteem.
About the speaker
Kyla Philander
Cape Town/South Africa
Kyla Philander is a Cape Town-based videographer and musician.
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