On Stage Design Indaba 2019: Lemn Sissay

The poet, playwright, and documentarian delivered a talk at Design Indaba Conference 2019 that garnered a standing ovation from the audience. His talk focused on the ways in which we use our creativity on a daily basis.

He mentions that creativity can be found in the day-to-day of parents trying to navigate and improvise the challenge of raising children or in the imagination of a taxi driver on the late shift.

For Sissay, his daily creative expressions take the form of morning poems in the form of tweets. They're borne out of whatever motivates or inspires him that morning, but most importantly, they have no specific agenda. Speaking about his inspiration on the morning of his Design Indaba talk, “This morning I was inspired by the thought that every thing that is around us had to be imagined first. Everything is an act of creativity, an act of imagination. Somebody had to imagine that it was possible before it became physical.”