Craft/2010/36 min/Reel № 10.001
ByTord Boontje
Tord Boontje on nature and creativity
Let It Out!/Recorded 2010
A close reading, kept within reach.
Tord Boontje 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 United Kingdom in 2010, the conversation is grounded in Tord'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.
Design is intricately linked to making, creativity and the future says Tord Boontje.
About the speaker
Tord Boontje
London/United Kingdom
Dutch product designer Tord Boontje founded Studio Tord Boontje in London in 1996.
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