Benefits of Inconvenience
DESIGN TALKS plus · Season 2021 · Episode 15
Everything around us has been designed to be convenient. But some are now approaching design with the opposite approach. Professor Kawakami Hiroshi is promoting what he calls the "benefits of inconvenience," and questioning our overly convenient lifestyles. So what does "inconvenient" design really mean? Explore this contrary approach and the new potential for design it reveals.
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Season
2021
Episode
15
Air Date
26/Aug/2021
Air Time
—
Runtime
30 min
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Everything around us has been designed to be convenient. But some are now approaching design with the opposite approach. Professor Kawakami Hiroshi is promoting what he calls the "benefits of inconvenience," and questioning our overly convenient lifestyles. So what does "inconvenient" design really mean? Explore this contrary approach and the new potential for design it reveals.
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