Design Activism/2016/32 min/Reel № 16.001
ByHilary Cottam
Redesigning the British Welfare State with Hilary Cottam
Experience the Wonder of Creativity/Recorded 2016
A close reading, kept within reach.
Hilary Cottam 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 United Kingdom in 2016, the conversation is grounded in Hilary'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.
British social entrepreneur Hilary Cottam is working to innovate and update the Welfare State.
About the speaker
Hilary Cottam
London/United Kingdom
Hilary Cottam is a designer, innovator and social entrepreneur who pioneers the use of design for social change.
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