Pedro Reyes

Architecture & Interiors/2011/20 min/Reel № 11.001

ByPedro Reyes

Pedro Reyes on making cities better

What Will Creativity Hold for the Future?/Recorded 2011

A close reading, kept within reach.

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Pedro Reyes takes architecture & interiors 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 Mexico in 2011, the conversation is grounded in Pedro'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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Pedro Reyes tells of his “Palas por Pistolas” project that saw weapons being voluntarily turned in and transformed into garden shovels.

Pedro Reyes

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Pedro Reyes

Mexico City/Mexico

Pedro Reyes is a Mexican artist who crosses the boundaries of the worlds of design, film, architecture and pedagogy.