African Design/2017/21 min/Reel № 17.001
ByYinka Ilori
Yinka Ilori on telling stories through furniture design
Inspiration Is Nothing Without Action/Recorded 2017
A close reading, kept within reach.
Yinka Ilori 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 Nigeria in 2017, the conversation is grounded in Yinka'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.
“If the chair you are sitting on could tell your story, would it be a dangerous or good thing?”
About the speaker
Yinka Ilori
Lagos/Nigeria
London-based Nigerian designer Yinka Ilori specialises in upcycled vintage furniture inspired by Nigerian parables and fabrics from Africa.
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