Design Activism/2016/7 min/Reel № 16.001
ByYogita Agrawal
Yogita Agrawal on design for impact in India
Experience the Wonder of Creativity/Recorded 2016
A close reading, kept within reach.
Yogita Agrawal 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 India in 2016, the conversation is grounded in Yogita'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.
Design Indaba Global Graduate Yogita Agrawal shares two of her projects: a wearable that uses human movement to power a light and a soap pen to improve hygiene.
About the speaker
Yogita Agrawal
Mumbai/India
Industrial designer Yogita Agrawal focuses on solving problems in emerging global communities with innovative products and sustainable technologies.
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