Architecture & Interiors/2017/52 min/Reel № 17.001
ByCraig Dykers, Thomas Chapman
Learn to approach design with empathy, says co-founder of Snøhetta
Inspiration Is Nothing Without Action/Recorded 2017
A close reading, kept within reach.
Craig Dykers takes architecture & interiors 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 USA in 2017, the conversation is grounded in Craig'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.
"Just look at people...," says Craig Dykers. "Getting to know their faces helps you understand who you're making things for."
About the speaker
Craig Dykers
New York/USA
Co-founder of Snøhetta, architect Craig Dykers is interested in design as a promoter of social and physical well-being.
Thomas Chapman
Johannesburg/South Africa
Thomas Chapman is the founder of Local Studio – an architecture firm that creates public buildings and urban design schemes that promote social development.
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