Design Activism/2014/Reel № 14.001
ByLauren Beukes
Lauren Beukes on confronting the monsters around us (trailer)
A Better Future Through Design/Recorded 2014
A close reading, kept within reach.
Lauren Beukes 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 South Africa in 2014, the conversation is grounded in Lauren'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.
The award-winning sci-fi writer shows how South Africa's dark past transforms into her fiction in this unusual presentation at Design Indaba Conference.
About the speaker
Lauren Beukes
Cape Town/South Africa
Lauren Beukes, author of Zoo City and The Shining Girls, uses twisty fiction to explore who we are in the world right now.
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