African Design/2015/2 min/Reel № 15.001
ByAckeem Ngwenya
Trailer: Ackeem Ngwenya on design for rural Africa
Make. Change./Recorded 2015
A close reading, kept within reach.
Ackeem Ngwenya takes african 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 South Africa in 2015, the conversation is grounded in Ackeem'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.
Designer and recent graduate Akeem Ngwenya says scarcity in Africa is a blank canvas for designers.
About the speaker
Ackeem Ngwenya
South Africa
This South African-born designer created the Roadless wheel for use in rural areas, an innovative product that turns scarcity into opportunity.
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