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Design Activism/2018/7 min/Reel № 18.001

Oliber helps people with partial or total atrophy of the hands

Embrace the Unknown/Recorded 2018

A close reading, kept within reach.

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The speaker 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 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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Chilean design graduate Bárbara López designed a low-cost tool to give new hands to those in need.