Renata Souza at Design Indaba 2018

Design Activism/2018/9 min/Reel № 18.001

ByRenata Souza

Renata Souza on designing an insulin kit specifically for children with diabetes

Embrace the Unknown/Recorded 2018

A close reading, kept within reach.

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Renata Souza 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 Mexico in 2018, the conversation is grounded in Renata'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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What did Renata say about…

"Children with type 1 diabetes are insulin-dependent. The administration of it is crucial to their survival."

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About the speaker

Renata Souza

Mexico City/Mexico

Product designer.