Information Design/2012/30 min/Reel № 12.001
BySissel Tolaas
Sissel Tolaas on discovering the world from the perspective of the nose
I Am Not a Designer/Recorded 2012
A close reading, kept within reach.
Sissel Tolaas 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 Germany in 2012, the conversation is grounded in Sissel'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.
“I collected smells instead of writing a diary”, says Sissel Tolaas. Find out how this helped her discover her surroundings through smell.
About the speaker
Sissel Tolaas
Berlin/Germany
Scent expert Sissel Tolaas uses aspects of science, art and design to research and create works that relate to the human experience of smell.
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