Marcel Wanders

Product Design/2009/1 hr 5 min/Reel № 09.001

ByMarcel Wanders

Marcel Wanders on reaching people through design

What Can Your Creativity Do?/Recorded 2009

A close reading, kept within reach.

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Marcel Wanders takes product 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 Netherlands in 2009, the conversation is grounded in Marcel'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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In design, it’s important to experiment and find different ways of looking at your surroundings, Marcel Wanders believes.

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About the speaker

Marcel Wanders

Amsterdam/Netherlands

Marcel Wanders is a Dutch designer who has been lauded by the The New York Times as the "Lady Gaga of the design world".