Design Indaba 2018

Design Thinking/2018/24 min/Reel № 18.001

ByLonny van Ryswyck

Lonny van Ryswyck on the importance of looking after our diminishing resources as designers

Embrace the Unknown/Recorded 2018

A close reading, kept within reach.

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The short version

Lonny van Ryswyck takes design thinking 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 Netherlands in 2018, the conversation is grounded in Lonny'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.

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What did Lonny say about…↵

In her 2018 Design Indaba Conference talk she takes us through her projects including, A World of Sand, where people donated sand from all over the world.

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About the speaker

Lonny van Ryswyck

Netherlands

A designer that sits at the crossroads of creativity, science and nature.