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Community Collective: The Fogo Island Story
Join Zita Cobb, entrepreneur and founder of the Shorefast Foundation, will discuss how design can be used to invigorate a community and build a future economy
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Businesswoman Zita Cobb has used cutting-edge architecture and design to revitalise the economy of her native community, the remote Fogo Island in Newfoundland. The furniture collection of the Fogo Island Inn (a community-owned social business) resulted from a dynamic collaboration between local makers and international designers.
Cobb, co-founder of the Inn and its parent organisation Shorefast Foundation, will discuss how design acted as a servant of people and place to mould a collection derived from the intellectual property of a centuries-old fishing community.
Zita Cobb will be in conversation with Ineke Hans
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