Marina Willer

Design Activism/2017/30 min/Reel № 17.001

ByMarina Willer

Marina Willer on why designers should be creating frameworks for accepting political change

Inspiration Is Nothing Without Action/Recorded 2017

A close reading, kept within reach.

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Marina Willer takes design activism 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 United Kingdom in 2017, the conversation is grounded in Marina'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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Marina Willer

London/United Kingdom

Marina Willer is a Pentagram partner and creative director with a background in graphic design, branding and filmmaking.