African Design/2014/8 min/Reel № 14.001
ByStefan van Biljon
Stefan van Biljon: Unearthing the urban unknown
A Better Future Through Design/Recorded 2014
A close reading, kept within reach.
Stefan van Biljon takes african 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 South Africa in 2014, the conversation is grounded in Stefan'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.
This Cape Town and New York-trained architect talks about uncovering the invisible forces that influence our relationships with our cities.
About the speaker
Stefan van Biljon
Cape Town/South Africa
Stefan van Biljon is an architect and part of the Pecha Kucha at Design Indaba 2014 Conference.
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