African Design/2014/Reel № 14.001
ByMargot Janse , David Higgs
Margot Janse and David Higgs on their culinary trajectories (trailer)
A Better Future Through Design/Recorded 2014
A close reading, kept within reach.
Margot Janse 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 South Africa in 2014, the conversation is grounded in Margot'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.
These multi-award winning, critically revered South African gourmets talk about the chef’s role in creating an experience, not just a dish.
About the speaker
Margot Janse
Cape Town/South Africa
Margot Janse is the executive chef at the award winning, Relais and Châteaux Le Quartier Français Hotel in Franschhoek.
David Higgs
Johannesburg/South Africa
David Higgs is the executive chef at the Saxon Hotel’s Five Hundred restaurant in Johannesburg, South Africa.
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