Marko Ahtisaari - Design Indaba Conference 2017

Creative Economy/2017/22 min/Reel № 17.001

ByMarko Ahtisaari

Unwind: Music as an alternative to traditional medicine

Inspiration Is Nothing Without Action/Recorded 2017

A close reading, kept within reach.

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Marko Ahtisaari takes creative economy 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 Finland in 2017, the conversation is grounded in Marko'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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Marko Ahtisaari presents Unwind, a global experiment in drug-free ways to treat physical and mental health.

Marko Ahtisaari

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Marko Ahtisaari

USA/Finland

Tech entrepreneur Marko Ahtisaari is the CEO and co-founder of The Sync Project, which investigates the therapeutic effects of music on the body and mind.