Industrial Design/2010/9 min/Reel № 10.001
ByThomas Thwaites
Thomas Thwaites on making a toaster from scratch
Let It Out!/Recorded 2010
A close reading, kept within reach.
Thomas Thwaites takes industrial 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 United Kingdom in 2010, the conversation is grounded in Thomas'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.
Royal College of Art graduate Thomas Thwaites investigates how one would go about making a toaster from scratch.
About the speaker
Thomas Thwaites
London/United Kingdom
Thomas Thwaites is a designer whose work examines how technology, science and economics interact with trends.
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