Design Activism/2017/34 min/Reel № 17.001
ByOlafur Eliasson
Olafur Eliasson talks design that has real-world significance
Inspiration Is Nothing Without Action/Recorded 2017
A close reading, kept within reach.
Olafur Eliasson 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 Denmark in 2017, the conversation is grounded in Olafur'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.
Danish-Icelandic artist Olafur Eliasson gives us his take on what functional design means and the newest member of the Little Sun family.
About the speaker
Olafur Eliasson
Copenhagen/Denmark
Icelandic-Danish artist Olafur Eliasson created the vast, indoor sun at the Tate in London, made rivers run green and made a waterfall flow upwards.
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