Product Design/2006/41 min/Reel № 06.001
ByShigeru Uchida
Shigeru Uchida on the power of weakness
Entrenching Itself on the International Design Calendar/Recorded 2006
A close reading, kept within reach.
Shigeru Uchida takes product 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 Japan in 2006, the conversation is grounded in Shigeru'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.
Weakness is part of design as much as it is part of human nature.
About the speaker
Shigeru Uchida
Tokyo/Japan
As a leading Japanese designer, Uchida has engaged in a wide range of design projects including interior works, furniture, products and urban planning.
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