INSPIRE / Design and social change at DI2011

Mexican artist Pedro Reyes uses design in a variety of ways to develop innovative solutions to various social problems. Here he talks about the need to curb the production of military products.

Also from Mexico, Carla Fernadez’s fashion label, Taller Flora, encourages sustainable fashion practices. She has a mobile design laboratory that works to uplift women in various communities, by involving them in the fashion design process.

Carla Fernandez

Carla Fernandez is the founder of Taller Flora, a fashion label and mobile design laboratory that travels throughout Mexico visiting indigenous communities, including those that specialise in handmade textiles.

Pedro Reyes

Pedro Reyes is a Mexican artist who crosses the boundaries of the worlds of design, film, architecture and pedagogy. His expanded notion of sculpture aims to create solutions to social problems by increasing an individual and collective degree of agency.