Lecture Series | Craft and Care with Nifemi Marcus-Bello

About the speaker:
Nifemi Marcus-Bello is a Lagos-based industrial designer and founder of nmbello Studio, a practice rooted in humility, cultural context, and process-led innovation. His work bridges commercial and artistic design, drawing from African traditions to create objects that are intuitive, functional, and deeply connected to place. He embraces design as a dialogue; responsive, evolving, and grounded in real-world interactions. His work is held in major institutions including MoMA, The Brooklyn Museum, LACMA, The Design Museum, London, amongst others. This year, he received a Special Mention Award at the Loewe Craft Prize for his contribution to contemporary design and craft.

About the lecture series 2025-2026
This year’s lecture series at IE School of Architecture and Design invites students to reflect on how making, maintaining and repairing—across architecture, fashion and design—can be a transformative practice of attention, commitment and responsibility. The series highlights the resurgence of craft as both contemporary practices and cultural heritage, celebrating voices from across the globe, embracing diverse material traditions and design processes, and affirming care as a transversal force that fosters well-being, social cohesion and ecological sustainability.

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