Robin Rhode

African Design/2017/22 min/Reel № 17.001

ByRobin Rhode

Multidisciplinary artist Robin Rhode brings his drawing process to life

Inspiration Is Nothing Without Action/Recorded 2017

A close reading, kept within reach.

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Robin Rhode 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 Germany in 2017, the conversation is grounded in Robin'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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The South African born artist and his “doppelgänger” light up the Design Indaba stage.

Robin Rhode

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Robin Rhode

Berlin/Germany

Berlin-based South African artist Robin Rhode uses public space as a stage for his highly visual work.