Jonx Pillemer - Ellie Frymire - Design Indaba

Design Thinking/2018/9 min/Reel № 18.001

#MeToo: Global Grad Ellie Frymire makes sense of the iconic movement

Embrace the Unknown/Recorded 2018

A close reading, kept within reach.

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The speaker 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 the field in 2018, the conversation is grounded in The'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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We know that the movement was started to call out rampant abuse of women around the world, but Frymire delved into what people were really saying with #MeToo