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Architecture & Interiors/2016/22 min/Reel № 16.001
ByMaxwell Mutanda, Safia Qureshi
Studio [D] Tale on design activism and innovation within existing systems
Experience the Wonder of Creativity/Recorded 2016
A close reading, kept within reach.
Maxwell Mutanda takes architecture & interiors 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 2016, the conversation is grounded in Maxwell'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.
Social impact designers Studio [D] Tale talk about innovating within informal economies and interventions in existing, sometimes backward, systems.
About the speaker
Maxwell Mutanda
Cape Town/South Africa
Multi-talented architect Maxwell Mutanda uses design to address real-world issues.
Safia Qureshi
London/United Kingdom
Safia Qureshi is an award-winning architect, social designer, entrepreneur and one half of Studio [D] Tale.
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