Fernando Laposse, 3/5/24 - SAIC’s Visiting Artists Program

Designer Fernando Laposse specializes in transforming humble natural materials into refined design pieces, creating projects that are informative and educational, touching on topics such as sustainability, the loss of biodiversity, community dissolution, migration and the negative impacts of global trade in local agriculture and food culture. His works are the result of extensive research which culminates into objects of “endemic design,” where materials and their historical and cultural ties to a particular location and its people take center stage. He often works with Indigenous communities in his native Mexico to create local employment opportunities and raise awareness about the challenges they face in a globalized world.
Presented in partnership with SAIC's Department of Architecture, Interior Architecture, and Designed Objects and the UIC School of Design Public Seminar Series.