Roger Smythe

Design Thinking/2009/15 min/Reel № 09.001

ByRoger Smythe

Roger Smythe: imagining dreams and ideas into reality

What Can Your Creativity Do?/Recorded 2009

A close reading, kept within reach.

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Roger Smythe takes design thinking 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 South Africa in 2009, the conversation is grounded in Roger'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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About the speaker

Roger Smythe

Johannesburg/South Africa

As creative director, Smythe’s direction of animation projects has led to the successful implementation and execution of award-winning campaigns.