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Lecture
Monday 8 November 2021

Martina Margetts

Radical Empathy

About the lecture

An important process at DAE is ‘designing through making’. Designers shape human living - but what knowledge and perceptions shape designers? As the orthodox rhetoric of consumer culture is drowned out by voices of the post-industrial, post-colonial, post-truth, post-human, Martina Margetts discusses post-craft and its significance for designers. Using examples of UK and international designer-making, Martina will show how materials and methods, bodies and spaces, politics and technologies are being rethought in our time.

About Martina

Writer and curator Martina Margetts explores how material culture speaks of our inner selves and outer socio-political realities. A tutor for three decades at the Royal College of Art (London) and former Editor of Crafts Magazine, she works with arts organisations internationally.

Image: Alice Moretto & Jennifer Carniel

Event date

Monday 8 November 2021
19h00 - 20h30