Craft/2009/30 min/Reel № 09.001
ByStephen Burks
Stephen Burks recycles to inspire
What Can Your Creativity Do?/Recorded 2009
A close reading, kept within reach.
Stephen Burks takes craft 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 USA in 2009, the conversation is grounded in Stephen'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.
For Stephen Burks, design is about making things that can have a special connection to people.
About the speaker
Stephen Burks
New York/USA
With Readymade Projects Stephen, Burks has been responsible for creative design direction on projects from retail interiors and events to packaging.
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