René Redzepi on creating the world's best restaurant

Food Design/2012/30 min/Reel № 12.001

ByRené Redzepi

René Redzepi on creating the world's best restaurant

I Am Not a Designer/Recorded 2012

A close reading, kept within reach.

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René Redzepi takes food design 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 2012, the conversation is grounded in René'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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René Redzepi designs dishes that enable people to experience a clear sense of time and place.

René Redzepi

About the speaker

René Redzepi

Copenhagen/Denmark

René Redzepi is the founder and head of Noma restaurant in Copenhagen, and one of the most influential people on the international food scene today.