Tord Boontje

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.

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The short version

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.

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Design is intricately linked to making, creativity and the future says Tord Boontje.

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About the speaker

Tord Boontje

London/United Kingdom

Dutch product designer Tord Boontje founded Studio Tord Boontje in London in 1996.