Architecture & Interiors/2012/30 min/Reel № 12.001
ByUrban-Think Tank, Alfredo Brillembourg
Urban-Think Tank on a curriculum for a new urban planet
I Am Not a Designer/Recorded 2012
A close reading, kept within reach.
Urban-Think Tank takes architecture & interiors 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 Brazil in 2012, the conversation is grounded in Urban-Think'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.
Alfredo Brillembourg (Urban-Think Tank) gives insight into accepting the unaccepted and aesthetic and ethical concerns in designing for informal settlements.
About the speaker
Urban-Think Tank
Sao Paulo/Brazil
Urban-Think Tank (U-TT) is an interdisciplinary design practice dedicated to high-level research and design related to contemporary architecture and urbanism.
Alfredo Brillembourg
Cape Town/South Africa
Alfredo Brillembourg is an architect and urban designer redefining the socio-economic system to overcome the emergent challenges in rapid urbanisation.
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