African Design/2011/21 min/Reel № 11.001
ByLowery Sims
Lowery Stokes Sims on the Global Africa Project
What Will Creativity Hold for the Future?/Recorded 2011
A close reading, kept within reach.
Lowery Sims takes african design 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 2011, the conversation is grounded in Lowery'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.
Lowery Stokes Sims tells of the Global Africa Project, which unpacks the notion of a "global Africa" and its meaning in terms of art, design and craft.
About the speaker
Lowery Sims
New York/USA
Lowery Stokes Sims is a curator at the Museum of Arts and Design in New York. She also conceived and co-curated The Global Africa Project (2011).
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