Design Thinking/2015/7 min/Reel № 15.001
ByTeresa van Dongen
Teresa van Dongen on visualising the magic of nature
Make. Change./Recorded 2015
A close reading, kept within reach.
Teresa van Dongen takes design thinking 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 Netherlands in 2015, the conversation is grounded in Teresa'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.
Recent Dutch Design Award winner Teresa van Dongen expresses her interest in the unexpected but magical design of nature.
About the speaker
Teresa van Dongen
Netherlands
Teresa van Dongen is an Amsterdam-based designer whose work – informed by science, chemistry, physics and a passion for glass – yields enchanting results.
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