Design Activism/2010/39 min/Reel № 10.001
ByWilliam Drenttel
William Drenttel on design's global impact
Let It Out!/Recorded 2010
A close reading, kept within reach.
William Drenttel takes design activism 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 USA in 2010, the conversation is grounded in William'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.
Promoting social entrepreneurship and applying design innovation to impact the world is what creativity is about for the William Drenttel (1953-2013).
About the speaker
William Drenttel
Falls Village/USA
William Drenttel (1953-2013) was a graphic designer, publisher and design leader. He worked in partnership with Jessica Helfand at Winterhouse.
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