Information Design/2008/38 min/Reel № 08.001
ByShin-ichi Takemura
Shin-ichi Takemura: how the internet can address social problems
South African Design Week/Recorded 2008
A close reading, kept within reach.
Shin-ichi Takemura takes information 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 2008, the conversation is grounded in Shin-ichi'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.
With the internet making real-time worldwide connections possible, it can be creatively applied to address social problems.
About the speaker
Shin-ichi Takemura
Tokyo/Japan
Professor Shin-ichi Takemura from Japan is a cultural anthropologist and media producer known for his innovative IT-driven social activities.
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