Christien Meindertsma spoke on the last day of the Design Indaba 2010. She has a quietly confident style and a subtle sense of humour. Her talk was thought provoking and intriguing.
Christien is fascinated by the link between products and the materials they are made out of. Even when we have some understanding of what something is made of – the emotional and physical link is lacking. Christien attempts to remind us of this link.
For example, the “One Sheep Cardigan” project, in which she knitted a cardigan made out of all the wool of one specific sheep.
The cardigan is accompanied by the sheep’s identity ear-tag (the small yellow object) a “passport” of the sheep in question, and a trophy ribbon: More
Masha du Toit 
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