Tom Hulme on stage at Design Indaba Conference 2014. Image: Jonx Pillemer.

Design Activism/2014/38 min/Reel № 14.001

ByTom Hulme

Tom Hulme on technology as a design tool

A Better Future Through Design/Recorded 2014

A close reading, kept within reach.

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Tom Hulme takes design activism 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 2014, the conversation is grounded in Tom'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.

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Tom Hulme

London/United Kingdom

Tom Hulme former design director at global design firm IDEO and now general partner at Google Venture, is also the founder of OpenIDEO and OIEngine.