Soren Petersen: What Can African Design Teach Us?
Africa remains a blank white spot on the international designers' map of the world, despite being the second largest continent, with the second largest population. A hundred years ago, African culture, with its ceremonial masks and sculptures inspiring abstract art, radically changed Western art. Could Africa now do the same for design? To get a sense of African design today and its future potential, we invited creative professionals to share their experiences, observations and thoughts on this challenging topic.