African Design/2009/7 min/Reel № 09.001
ByJonathan Shapiro
Zapiro Pecha Kucha (part two): Polokwane Pirates
What Can Your Creativity Do?/Recorded 2009
A close reading, kept within reach.
Jonathan Shapiro 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 South Africa in 2009, the conversation is grounded in Jonathan'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.
This is the second part of Zapiro’s presentation at Design Indaba Expo 2009.
About the speaker
Jonathan Shapiro
Cape Town/South Africa
Better known as Zapiro, he has published 11 cartoon collections and held solo exhibitions in New York, London and Frankfurt.
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